Solutions & sustainability – Apr 16
Transition Towns in New Zealand
Daily Mail: An entire village turns against supermarkets and grows its own food
Author trades suburbia for ‘simple’ life
Food & Water
Food & agriculture – Apr 15
Struggling Egypt where bread means life
WSJ: Food inflation, riots spark worries for world leaders
Monbiot: Credit crunch? The real crisis is global hunger. And if you care, eat less meat
How to drink beer and save the world
Crisis & response – Apr 14
World finance ministers emphasize food crisis over credit crisis
Energy and food problems need global solutions, says Jeffrey Sachs
Bill McKibben: Where have all the joiners gone?
New York Times on the New Survivalism
Food & agriculture – Apr 13
Canadian Medical Journal – Obesity reduction and its possible consequences: What can we learn from Cuba’s Special Period?
The recipe for food rights (Vandana Shiva interview)
Manufactured foodscape
It has been a truism from the beginning of civilization that cities require stocks of grain, surpluses that can last a year or even two to sustain them through drought or war. In the last two decades, the champions of the globalized trade system have turned that truism on its head and foolishly convinced governments and their leaders that food production and storage can be largely left to the marketplace. All that is changing rather quickly.
Fertilizers and glyphosate – Apr 11
Peak weed-killer?
Jeypore: Shortage of fertiliser hits farmers
Australian farmers attack fertiliser pricing
Food & agriculture – Apr 11
NYT editorial: The world food crisis
Starving Haitians riot as food prices soar
We’ll reap what we sow (US farm bill)
As prices rise, farmers spurn conservation program
Plastics and rubber – Apr 11
First town in Europe to ban plastic bags
Schools offered uniforms made from old bottles
Harnessing biology, and avoiding oil, for chemical goods
Setting sail for Garbage Island (floating plastics)
Brazil builds £10m condom factory to help save rainforest
Food & agriculture – Apr 9
Astyk interview: Low energy methods for home food preservation and storage
Gene Logsdon: First spring things
Hopeless gardeners – begin on the balcony
Food crisis – Apr 9
Food price rises threaten global security – UN
Paul Krugman: Grains gone wild
Riots in Haiti and Africa as food prices skyrocket
Fear of rice riots in Far East
Food prices rise beyond means of poorest in Africa
Transport – Apr 8
Ten reasons why NYC’s congestion pricing plan went belly up
Truckers hit the brakes over high price of diesel
Railroads expanding at a record clip
More trains for Grand Central Station
Peak Oil Review — April 7th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Prices, Production and Exports
– Electricity Shortages and Diesel
– Rice, Inflation and Oil
– Massachusetts Hosts a Meeting
– Energy Briefs
