Deeper than a mud puddle
Story from the point of view of a farmer in an intentional community in a post-Peak Oil world several years from now.
Food & Water
Deep thought – Aug 23
Urgency and global warming: Interview with physicist Martin I. Hoffert
Topsoil loss – causes, effects and implications
Tipping points in the Earth system
Food & agriculture – Aug 23
Global warming to decimate China’s harvests
Chicago wheat gains on speculation U.S. export demand to rise
Uganda farmers use human urine as fertilizers, pesticide
Bullock brothers homestead- 25-years of permaculture
The bounty around us
The complexity of modern life
Failure of complex systems comes about not because the systems fail to accomplish their nominal purpose, but as a result of unintended consequences of the interactions of the component parts.
Peak phosphorus – the bottom line
What is new and controversial in the article is the assertion that we have passed the point of “Peak phosphorus” – the point of maximum production and consumption of phosphorus. This would mean that over time phosphorus will become more difficult to obtain, and more expensive. This would be a major problem for society, since without sufficient supplies of phosphorus we will have difficulty feeding ourselves.
Food & agriculture – Aug 15
Tanzania families dig deeper into pockets to put food on tables
Prices for key foods are rising sharply
Global warming boosts crop disease
PV and biofuels – Aug 14
Doubts over ‘green’ solar panels
Biofuel a must for India, say experts
Biofuel boom threatens Gummy Bears
Nitrogen – Aug 14
Impact of rising natural gas prices on U.S. ammonia supply
Nitrogen quietly rivaling CO2 as a global climate threat
Human alteration of the global nitrogen cycle
Peak phosphorus
Phosphorus is one of the three major nutrients required for agriculture. Applying Hubbert analysis reveals that production of phosphates probably reached a world peak in 1989.
Peak phosphorus: readings
Background on the phosphorus problem and possible responses.
Fossil fuels at peak (11-part series)
Retired nuclear physicist looks at peak oil and how it will affect us.
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 11
‘Zero Carbon Britain’ report from Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT)
The Lifeboat Radio Show
“The Power of Community” article en español
Peak Moment videos: Human-scale tools / Boulder County going local
New York City Launches GreeNYC Educational Campaign
