Peak Oil Review — March 31st, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Basra
– China
– Food Shortages
– Energy Briefs
Food & Water
Time to start growing your own bread
It is gratifying to know there are still Americans who, instead of wringing their hands at a possible problem headed their way, start figuring what to do about it.
Food & agriculture – Mar 30
Markets nervous: will U.S. plant enough corn?
Jamie Oliver wants Britain on a wartime diet
Holmgren: Back to the backyard
Come on in, the farming’s fine
Food & agriculture – Mar 29
High rice cost creating fears of Asia unrest
India rice export prices up again
Rosie Boycott: Only a radical change of diet can halt looming food crises
Gourmet magazine points the way toward a green and smart farm policy
Food prices rising across the world
Prices climb as fertiliser famine looms
Why Ethanol Production Will Drive World Food Prices Even Higher in 2008
We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before.
Food & agriculture – Mar 26
Sulfuric acid prices explode (due to biofuels, fertilizer demand)
Pig slurry solution to high fertilizer prices
UK fishing industry turning green
Urban design – Mar 26
Transition Towns movement hits “The Archers”, UK cultural intitution
Urban jungle: growing fruit and vegetables in UK town-centres
China’s green building movement
Kunstler on zoning and “starchitects”
A food conversation
Local food advocates seem to have put a good dose of local farm dust up the nostrils of Australian Agriculture Minister, Tony Burke. The issues of local food and food importation are complex and deserve a more mature and sophisticated approach than that offered by the minister.
Food & agriculture – Mar 25
NY Times hails the era of the hipster farmer
Opportunity knocks in fertiliser boom
Water, the blood of the earth
Monsanto pays Percy Schmeiser
Biofuels – Mar 25
Top scientists warn against rush to biofuel
The folly of turning water into fuel
Food & agriculture – Mar 23
UK gardeners turn to vegetables
Self-sufficient living in East Anglia: hard work and red tape
India’s debt-ridden farmers committing suicide
Biofuels – Mar 23
Synthetic life for creating fuel from CO2 feedstock
Poppy power – biodiesel not opium
Bacteria produces oil – side effects?
Biofuel boom threatens food supplies: Nestle
