U.S. energy
Democrats seek to boost taxes on oil companies
Won’t be easy to bollect $31B oil royalties
FutureGen CEO interview
Amid election, coal takes the offensive
WaPo editorial: The problem with biofuels
Food & Water
Food & agriculture – Feb 27
The footprint of a cheeseburger
FT: Food and the spectre of Malthus
‘Panic’ wheat buying across the US
Breadbasket inflation
In the dark with both hands
Fertilizer shortages caused by the depletion of nonrenewable feedstocks are a significant worry in the wake of peak oil. There’s a simple solution — but most people in the industrial world don’t seem to be able to tell it from a hole in the ground.
Food & agriculture – Feb 26
We chow down on a diet salted with mystery
Obesity more dangerous than terrorism
Opening of global seed vault in Arctic
UK farmers ride income rollercoaster
Uganda: Exposing the African Green Revolution
Food supply – Feb 26
Fighting a losing battle, UN admits
China staring at grain imports
Venezuela limits food exports
America’s grain stocks running short
Wheat: the unstable staple
Hog breeding cut – grain cost
At the movies – Feb 26
There Will Be Blood– dramatization of peak oil?
Renewal (religious environmental activism)
The Gleaners and I (extreme recycling)
Biofuels – Feb 25
Cuban ethanol boom doubtful after Castro exit
Fuel vs Food: NOT! (David Blume)
David Pimentel: Debunking the biofuel myth
Food & agriculture – Feb 25
UN says world fisheries face collapse
Lancaster Farming speaks with Michael Pollan
Biologist tells how climate change affects agriculture
Branson acknowledges peak oil
In an interview with Global Public Media, Sir Richard Branson told journalist David Strahan that aviation could be made “truly sustainable” at the launch of test flight fuelled in part by coconut oil. But the Virgin boss conceded that meaningful supplies of alternative fuel might not be available before the advent of peak oil, which he said could happen within six years.
Climate – Feb 22
Garnaut issues climate wake-up call to Australia
Consequences of changing climate on rainfall, wildfire and agriculture (TOD)
Permafrost thaw a “wild card” in warming
Biofuels – Feb 22
Biofuel without tears – but how much? (jatropha)
Ethanol can cost a lot of water
UK’s Kelly orders biofuels review
Global Biopact – benefits for rich and poor nations
Food & agriculture – Feb 22
Potash Corp.: famines may occur this year
Wheat prices could defy a recession
Worldwide shortage of rice
Just how expensive is our wheat in reality?
