Solutions and sustainability – Oct 23
Time for a Schumacher revival /
Peak oil and permaculture /
Hundreds of sustainability links /
How rural communities can grow again /
Japan’s sustainability down 19%
Food & Water
Economics headlines – Oct 22
Arab Times: solution to high oil prices – cut taxes /
High fuel costs strain mass-transit systems /
Chavez helps Motley Fool pick oil stocks /
Threat to privatised £56bn UK nuclear clean-up /
Simmons says crude could hit $190 this winter /
France’s consumer spending fell on oil /
IEA to discuss possible further oil release /
Energy costs sting rural residents in Alaska /
Energy, trade and the demise of petrochemicals in Alberta /
Peak corn? As Wal-Mart shifts from petroleum to corn, farmers flee the crop /
Agriculture facing its own Katrina
The end of cheap oil: the consequences
Second part of The Ecologist series on Peak Oil detailing the impacts on food production in the UK. Note that this version is published on the American International Automobile Dealers Assoc. website!!
Food and class
Historically, people of limited means have tended to scrape by on what’s locally available, while the wealthy have used their resources to draw in fancy food from far away. Now, that situation has turned upside down.
Other Energy Headlines – October 12, 2005
The Illusive Bonanza: Oil Shale in Colorado / Green Fuel Revolution a Challenge for Grain Sector / Cleaner coal? IGCC nice, but.. / Clean coal isn’t climate-friendly yet / Nuclear power quietly confident in energy debate / Atlantic coal plant dirtiest, green group says
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 10
Greenpeace report on solar power /
London’s answer for traffic congestion /
Umbra loves bikes /
Pollan high on grass, down on corn /
Down and dirty: soil in industrial society /
Ecolanguage /
Hard cash and climate change /
China looks to California for solutions /
White House picks up conservation mantra /
Energy efficiency in Wyoming /
McMansions out of style? /
Save energy around the house
Environment headlines – 28 Sept, 2005
Who is right about global warming and hurricanes? /
Gulf currents that turn storms into monsters /
UN recommends carbon sequestration /
WorldChanging on sequestration /
Agriculture at center of California pollution debate
Environment headlines – 10 September
Researchers debate whether hurricanes are stronger /
Katrina fuels global warming storm /
Global catastrophes set to increase unless we change NOW /
‘York could be UK’s New Orleans’ /
Global warming called insurance peril /
Ceres on Katrina, insurance, and weather-related risk /
Global warming could hit Indian agriculture /
WWF: The environment matters
A fit of (oil) peak
‘IT’S THE END of the world as we know it, and we feel fine.’ Grist.org editors look on the bright side, and name a reform agenda.
China faces water crisis
Eighty percent of China’s rivers no longer support fish. Most surface waters are polluted and many rivers no longer reach the ocean. The per-capita water availability in northwest China is only one-quarter of the world average and the second lowest on the planet.
Sustainable Willits: unanimous vote for economic localization
A statement calling for sustainable local production of necessary goods and services including food was unanimously endorsed by the city council of Willits, California, the most Peak-Oil-aware city in the USA.
Maverick methods work just fine for both produce and the planet
Say it can’t be done and he’ll do it. So, when maverick farmer Michael Ableman ran a farm in California, he grew tomatoes without a drop of irrigation. “My goal is to be 80 per cent fossil oil-free in the next couple of years,” he declares.
