Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
When climate change and peak oil thinkers run out of other things to worry about, there’s always the endless, inevitable debates about whether we are facing a “fast crash” or a “slow grind.” When no one was looking, we got an answer. Fast crash wins. And we’re in it now.
The move to alternative sources of heat will put pressure on the remaining forests in North America . This transition will also threaten the climate and air quality as coal-burning expands, and it could push grain prices higher as homeowners compete for increasingly scarce grain to feed grain-burning furnaces. Electricity may also become a source of heat, potentially threatening the electrical grid.
Japan’s hunger a dire warning for other nations
Food rationing in breadbasket of the world
International agriculture assessment: we need a paradigm shift
Role of Potash as strategic resource
Amid strong farm economy, some dire signs
Green issue of NY Times Magazine
Cuban permaculturalist visits Australia
Seattle’s Local Food Action Initiative a cure for society’s ills?
Life (mostly) off the grid
Ontario set to veto ban on clotheslines
Lester R. Brown: World facing huge new challenge on food front
Food price rises are “mass murder” – UN envoy
How hunger could topple regimes
We know secret of Joseph’s biblical pest control
EU set to scrap biofuels target amid fears of food crisis
Biofuels under attack as world food prices soar
Biofuels won’t solve energy problem: Shell
Berkeley biofuels expert Farrell dies at 46
A sustainable biofuels consensus
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– China
– Food vs. Fuel
– Brazil’s Giant Field
– Energy Briefs
I rather think that these white-gowned scientists in their laboratories don’t understand that the mentality that strives for triplets is not the best way to feed the world or to make farming sustainable.
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
New York Times: Across globe, empty bellies bring rising anger
UK Mail reveals food prices rising at SIX times official figure
Sticker shock in the organic aisles
A drought in Australia, a global shortage of rice
Potash the new crude
Sulphur: From waste byproduct to billion-dollar commodity
Food shortage looming if crop focus isn’t altered
China agrees to pay triple for potash fertilizer
Unwelcome face of ag-inflation
Rednecks and peak oil: Valuing the farmer’s contribution
“The Farmer is the Man” (and Woman)
