Food & agriculture – Feb 10
The upside to peak fertilizer
Nitrogen pollution stomps on biodiversity
Astyk: Time for a new Victory Garden movement!
Studies conclude that biofuels are not so green
Act: Inspiration
Food & agriculture – Feb 7
Fermentation and food: The revolution will not be microwaved
Farming the Amazon with a machete and mulch
Homogeneous horror in agriculture
Bob Waldrop on local food systems
The birth of a farmers’ market
The near-ice biking experience
It took a near-ice experience and tomorrow’s potential challenge of an early, icy, 11-mile trip to get me to do a simple thing with immediate rewards like change out my bike tires. What, then, does it take to get people to make much bigger changes in their lives to prepare for a world with less abundant energy?
Peak oil – Feb 2
In depth report on San Francisco Peak Oil Preparedness Task Force
Energy Roundtable: Simmons, Hirsch, Rubin
Understanding the current energy crisis in South Africa
Up from dysfunction – Jan 31
Move it, you just might get younger
California to probe development of ‘green’ chemicals
From buses to blogs, a pathological individualism is poisoning public life
Asking better questions
The discussion at The Oil Drum takes a more personal nature with me; much of my own history involves looking back toward a simpler time in agriculture. (The account of a “recovering energy engineer.”)
Housing & urban design – Jan 30
Abu Dhabi’s zero-carbon ‘ecotopia’
Berkeley envisions ambitious energy plan
Address climate change through land use
Making the transition
Peak oil – Jan 29
TOD blockbuster: “Powering civilization to 2050” by Stuart Staniford
Will peak oil drive relocalization?
Investment guru Jim Rogers: $90 to $100 oil not high enough to slow demand
Barclays Capital: Triple digit oil price regardless of peak
Peak oil – Jan 28
Peak oil activist in the Wall Street Journal
Shell: Fuel crisis looms by 2015
US petroleum supply, ethanol, and state of the industry
Housing & urban design – Jan 25
My other car is a bright green city
Daniel Lerch on post carbon cities
Mayors climate protection summit
Lawn to farm: suburbia’s silver lining
I look at the empty countryside around our farm and can’t help but wish it were as thick with people as when my grandparents made a living here.
Mental – Jan 24
U.S. voters show darker mood than in 2000 – unsettled, powerless
I’m a brilliant scientist and I fear for the world’s fate
Public vs. private commitment
Peak oil as obsessional neurosis
Davos 08: Reasons to be anxious
