Backyard Aquaponics
Aquaponics is a system of integrated fish tanks and hydroponic vegetable beds, which may have a lot to offer for high intensity urban food production.
Transition Town Totnes
Totnes is the UK’s first town exploring issues of how to prepare for peak oil. TTT is a community-led initiative which is working towards the creation of an Energy Descent Action Plan for the town.
Peak Oil – Sept 25
Energy Dept. concludes crude will peak
Recent hype can’t disprove peak oil
Oil peaks, valleys, plateaus and plains
Get ready for oil supplies to dwindle: experts
Put crudely, petrol panic runs out of puff
Kunstler on relocalization and peak oil
Geopolitics – Sept 25
Appeasement driven by oil (Darfur)
Oil-rich leaders mock Bush team
Blair bemoans Russia oil crisis
World Bank profits from poor countries
West bars IAEA motion on Israel
Energy policy – Sept 25
Nuclear power pushed for oil sands production
Collapse of oil prices makes gas restraint key to controlling CO2
Untransformed
(Bush and energy technology)
Hearings on Defense energy use
Environmentalists back Putin over Shell’s energy permit
Food & agriculture – Sept 25
Spinach, feedlots and knowing the backstory
Don’t cry to them, Argentina
Gateses’ approach to African hunger is bound to fail
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 25
Making the Tarmac bloom
Towpaths and bicycle commuting
High Point: Seattle’s green community
Wal-Mart grows ‘green’ strategies
The religious war on bottled water
Climate – Sept 25
Scientists shocked as Arctic polar route emerges
Great Warming filmmakers aim to influence U.S. voters
Global meltdown feared: UN report
Carbon offsetting is not just hot air
Biofuels – Sept 24
Biofuels: Green energy or grim reaper?
Farming the World’s Energy
Researchers Caution on Potential of Energy Crops as Invasive Species
Renewables – Sept 24
Silicon Valley explores solar technology
Philippines urged to use its abundant wind
Slow uptake of gasoline alternatives in US
Clinton debuts $1B renewable-energy fund
2006 a tipping point, says Flavin
Mitigating collapse – Sept 23
Orlov: What can young professionals and aging baby boomers do to prepare for America’s collapse?
Orlov: What can young people do to prepare for America’s collapse?
Surviving The Oil Crash: Leadership And Social Structure
Thomas Homer-Dixon: Resiliency & Collapse
Oil Industry – Sept 22
Executive sees price threat to oil sands projects
Costs of exploration soar
Auditors say US Dept. Interior corruptly favouring oil companies
