Solutions & sustainability – Nov 20

Crisis and Risk: Categories and Mental Maps

Coming soon: a green Bill Gates

Composting toilets of the South Pacific

Money Is Material

David Suzuki interview

Climate – Nov 20

Advancing deserts and rising seas

Longer, more expensive wildfire seasons

Diseases appear on rise with temperature
Climate change hits hard in the Australian outback

Oil – Nov 20

Stanford plans to energize its oil department
Feeding frenzy for Africa oil fields
Cuban oil and ethanol could prosper
Venezuela bills $17.3 million in unpaid taxes
BP next in line as Kremlin targets oil companies

Peak oil – Nov 20

Vintage Kunstler talk and interview
TOD’s November peak oil update
Exxon retiree seeks debate on peak oil & warming
On CERA: Even if the optimists are right…

Environment – Nov 20

Taking On Goliath (gas industry) in the West

China’s Yellow River in crisis

China’s environment dangerously degraded: official
Japan shrinks

Food & agriculture – Nov 20

Ethanol driving up meat prices
L.A. urban farmers plow new fields
A locally harvested menu takes some legwork
Grandma’s Veggies May Have Been More Nutritious

Environmental cost of Sweden’s imported food

One study concluded that local broccoli would cause 60% less greenhouse emissions. Another study calculated that 50 items from a supermarket travelled more in total than the distance from earth to moon.

Peak oil and U.S. cities

Progress report on the dozen or so U.S. cities that have passed peak oil resolutions or that are on track to do so.

Transport – Nov 20

BMW’S HYDROGEN 7: ‘dirtier than a heavy diesel truck’

Controlled chaos: European cities do away with traffic signs

Motorists face new costs for highways

Cyclists represented in Congress

Shippers seek cheaper ways to get from A to B

Biofuels – Nov 19

Ethanol production spikes corn prices
100 million acres needed for energy crops
Impact of corn ethanol on grain, oilseed, and livestock sectors (study)
Analysis of the link between ethanol, energy, and crop markets

CERA peak oil report – Nov 19

CERA report: Don’t worry, be happy (Puplava)
What does an ‘undulating plateau’ really mean?
Peak-oil debate crackles anew