Food & agriculture – Sept 18
Sustainable agriculture in CSIRO newsletter
African agriculture: seeds of hope
Study finds chemicals in biosolids
How to keep fires down in California scrub- chew it
Gore says tax CO2, not payrolls
In a major cliimate-change speech today at the NYU School of Law, Al Gore proposed:
– an immediate freeze on CO2 emissions
– replacing the payroll tax with pollution taxes
– joining the Kyoto Treaty
– looking for solutions not in a silver bullet but in “silver buckshot.”
An Interview with Dennis Meadows – co-author of ‘Limits to Growth’.
I was very lucky at ASPO 5 to get to interview Dennis Meadows, one of the authors of what is probably the most famous environmental book in history, “Limits to Growth”.
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 18
LA Weekly on green building
Oil Depletion Mitigation Bill
Airlines increase disease risks
Book Review: How We Can Save the Planet
Peak Oil – Sept 17
Whither oil prices?
OPEC sheds production ceiling
As prices tumble, doomsayers hold fast to prophecy
Geopolitics – Sept 17
Yemen foils attacks on oil plants
Sinopec set for 51% stake in Yadavaran
Putin declines EU’s energy charter
Pakistan: Hello al-Qaeda, goodbye America
Solar – Sept 17
Australia may miss solar power boom
NATURE: Silicon Valley sunrise
Desperately seeking silicon
Biofuels – Sept 17
From wheat to corn
Could sugar cane save the planet?
Addressing Proposition 87 criticisms (California)
Oil prices – Sept 17
Brainstorming on oil price manipulation
India: volatile oil prices a big worry
Mandil: Capacity limits to curb oil price fall
IMF raises 2007 oil price forecast 20%
Get ready for price rationing, says oil guru Groppe
Clinton reads Heinberg on peak oil
“I borrowed a book from [Bill Clinton] that he had just read—The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies, by Richard Heinberg, not exactly summer reading—and it was full of underlinings and what looked like the most serious undergraduate’s markings, with lots of exclamation points.”
Ethanol – Sept 16
South Africas ethanol landscape
Extracting grain of truth on ethanol
Consumer Reports: The ethanol myth
India backs down on blending
Honda claims cellulose breakthrough
As prices tumble, doomsayers hold fast to prophecy
Peak-oil theorists reject any claims of resurgence in supply. It’s been a tough week for peak-oil theorists — those limits-to-growth doomsayers who argue the world’s crude oil supply has begun an inexorable decline that will force prices ever higher.
