World grain harvest down 6.6%
Foreign corn production is expected to drop by 900 million bushels in the 2003-2004 crop year, according to University of Illinois Extension marketing specialist Darrel Good.
Wakeup Call on the Food Front
While Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and President Bush discussed Taiwan, currency rates and North Korea on December 9, a more important and far-reaching development in U.S.-China relations was going on far from the White House.
In the Capital of the Car, Nature Stakes a Claim
DETROIT- PAUL WEERTZ lives less than 10 minutes from downtown, but the view from his window is anything but urban. On a warm day this fall, the air was ripe with the smell of fresh-cut hay and manure. In the alley behind his house, bales of hay teetered and listed where garbage cans once stood. Chickens scratched in the yard, near a garage that had been turned into a barn. Mr. Weertz drives a Ford — not a sleek sedan but a rebuilt 1960 tractor.
The Bottom of the Barrel
Oil is running out, but no one wants to talk about it.
What was there in the famous “Report to the Club of Rome” ? (excerpt)
Looking back and correcting some of the misconceptions about the 1972 “Report to the Club of Rome.”
Gas Hydrates – Will They be Considered in the Future Global Energy Mix?
For the first time, an international research program involving the Department of the Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey has proven that it is technically feasible to produce gas from gas hydrates. Gas hydrates are a naturally occurring “ice-like” combination of natural gas and water that have the potential to be a significant new source of energy from the world’s oceans and polar regions.
Cuba-A Hope
The Cuban experience with an artifical ‘oil peak’ gives some hope for how a society can re-organise around organic agriculture to avoid the worst possible consequences.
St. Matthew Island — Overshoot & Collapse
The story of St. Matthew Island’s reindeer population from 1944 (29) to 1966 (42), featured in today’s Anchorage Daily News, is a potential metaphor for our times.
For many generations of reindeer, St. Matthew Island was literally a land of plenty. The reindeer population on the island exploded following its introduction. By 1963, the population had grown to more than 6000 reindeer. Two years later, 99% of that herd had died of starvation, having destroyed the environment that sustained them, depleting their primary energy source.
China: Falling grain output raises concern
With national grain production down for the fifth consecutive year, China is quickly digesting its grain reserves, which could result in a shortage by 2005, experts warn.
A New American Century? Iraq and the hidden euro-dollar wars
Despite the apparent swift U.S. military success in Iraq, the U.S. dollar has yet to benefit as safe haven currency. This is an unexpected development, as many currency traders had expected the dollar to strengthen on the news of a U.S. win.
Eating Fossil Fuels
As Peak Oil and its effects become a raging national controversy it’s time everyone reads the story that puts the most serious implications of Peak Oil and Gas into perspective. Your biggest problem is not that your SUV might go hungry, it’s that you and your children might go hungry.
The Caspian Oil Myth
Caspian Sea region oil “riches” exposed as a convenient myth manufactured by various United States agencies, governments of some of the newly independent Soviet states of the Caspian Region, and Western oil companies.
