My 2007 peak oil to do list
If we start now and do every day what we can do, we have a good chance of looking back in a few years and being pleasantly surprised that we made it – changed, for sure, but still here.
Food & Water
2006 top green tech ideas
In 2005, Americans woke up to the reality of peak oil. In 2006, we started seeing more attention to the two paths that can lead us forward:
energy efficiency and renewable energy. A number of good ideas have surfaced.
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 5
The turning of the worm [soil]
Toward energy self-sufficiency
Why educating girls pays off more
New initiative to deglobalize economy of SF Bay Area
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 3
Perils and rewards of carless parenting
He’s still following the sun
Surprising secret to a long life: stay in school
Black earth
Biofuels and agriculture – Jan 3
Biofuels 2006: How is the value chain shaping up?
Animal fat as biofuel?
Corn faces ethanol challenge (switchgrass)
Iowa faces fuel vs. food dilemma
Soybeans may grow scarce
Poor harvests to push bread prices up
Fuelling a Food Crisis: The impact of peak oil on food security
Dwindling oil stocks and EU trade and energy policies threaten food price hikes – and could cause the UK to be vulnerable to food shortages for the first time since the Second World War, according to a new report by Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas.
Energy sources – Dec 31
Wind: It’s free, plentiful and fickle
Australian PM puts faith in nuclear power
Biofuels may cut into Carolina cotton acreage
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 27
Book review: Peak Oil Prep
Paul Hawken: What’s next
3,000 people get by without buying new things
Being green can make you happy: new study
Slow food’s growing pains
Resolutions for a Post-Peak New Year
Ten New Year’s resolutions to help get ready for a world on the far side of Hubbert’s peak, focusing on practical steps most people can accomplish in their lives right now.
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 26
Garden Girl video
Post-peak medicine: garlic case study
Green web portal for Portland
Positive charcoal = negative carbon?
How to provide good food for everyone
Climate – Dec 26
Deck the halls with boughs of holly – before it dies out
Usefulness of forests in CO2 reduction
Team monitors CO2 underground
Peak oil – Dec 22
Audio interview with Tom Whipple (new)
Desperately shrinking Big Oil
Cultural Economist: online report on oil depletion
Skeptics speak against their own interests
UK Soil Assn conference focuses on peak oil
Dr. Jerry Unruh – interview
Peak oil and the energy utilization chain (EUC)
