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H.T.Odum first developed the concepts and methods of Emergy accounting, and an increasing number of authorities advocate the discipline as the best, if not the only, way of determining which processes and fuels are actually ‘winners’ in any meaningful way.
… Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., … argues that with half of federal farm subsidies currently “flowing to six states to produce 13 commodities that in the main we don’t need, like corn, wheat, cotton, and rice,” there’s a dramatically superior alternative.
We should, says Blumenauer, “use that money to build sustainable agriculture, create a farmer’s market in every community, help farmers protect our land and water, preserve our viewsheds, foster land banks and control erosion.” …
India: Peak Oil? Grow sugar cane / Australian Dep. PM fears for oil reserves / Possum News Network on PO / Detailed LNG analysis / British lawmaker: Iraq war was for oil / Mexico defends oil policy after U.S. comment / Canadian oil sands: vast but dirty / China moves fast to claim oil sands / Opec remarks may pump oil price / Oil prices to fall to $30-40 in 2006-07 – EBRD / Oil prices to top $60 by autumn, analysts warn / Oil hunt: India, China to join hands
Kenneth Deffeyes interviewed / Richard Heinberg interviewed / Kunstler feeling paranoid / Answering a Peak Oil skeptic / And so it begins … / OPEC pumping at full capacity / Oil industry looking at renewables / Bolivia epitomizes fight for natural resources / Dirty secret: coal plants could be much cleaner / Canadian oil showdown: tribes vs oil sands / GE CEO is onboard with clean energy / Time is ripe for urban agriculture / The Cascade Agenda: 100-year conservation plan covering 1.26 million acres around Seattle – largest vision in the US
Owner of oldest commercial oil field believes in Peak Oil / UK ‘Peak Oil’ website passes landmark / New Energy Currents – an overview / Global warming in the New Yorker, part 3 / The Lessons of Easter Island / History shows that true innovation has disappeared from our society / 2,000 more wind turbines in UK countryside / Tilting at windmills: nation split over energy eyesores
The 5 steps in the future energy system must include amplification / Congress touts ’green energy,’ but bill is black and blue / Greenspan: Oil supplies to grow / U.N. report says biodiversity on decline / ** Biofuels special ** / Like Easter Island, only with cars / The rape of the rainforest… and the man behind it / Brazil’s backing biodiesel / From rainforest to biodiesel / Alternative fuels – promises and perils / Wind farms ‘must take root in UK’ / Neva Goodwin, ecological economist, answers readers’ questions / A green(er) IT / Reader asks about connection between PO and biodiversity
On the road with Heinberg in South Africa / Apollo Energy Act contrasts sharply with “Jurassic” GOP energy bill / Bolivians reject gas laws / A Castro ally with oil cash vexes the US / Saudi ‘could double oil output’ / Economic Tsunami: Coming Sooner Than You Think / They Really Are Watching You / Crises, survivalism and the rural life
McKillop: Amoco’s magic curve / How to ease yourself across the oil peak / Senators seek bipartisan energy bill / Scharzenegger weighs in on federal energy bill / California: importing power, fostering pollution / Latin states seek more control of oil / Foreign gas companies in Bolivia face higher taxes / Bolivia erupts / China: Danger of melting Everest glaciers / Julian Darley and Celine Rich interviewed / Global wind map may provide better locations for wind farms / City folk support farmers through CSAs / Small family farms ‘may vanish’ in UK / Organic farming pioneer dies / Vegetable puppets fight back against industrial agriculture
CS Monitor reviews Deffeyes / McKillop: Shift to the Euro would lock-in higher oil prices / PO Conference in Sweden May 23 / Review of “The Long Emergency” / How a clever world could self-destruct / Energy is behind troubles in Uzbekistan / … in Bolivia / … in Ecuador / Australia and East Timor / Arctic oil search moves to new turf, new controversies / Oil and Gas drilling could contaminate precious aquifers / Scotland nuclear safety failures revealed / Ultra-clean coal / Saudi oil minister comments on oil supply / North Sea oil production continues decline / IEA: World oil demand growth slows / China: ignore its
oil thirst at your own peril / UK City hedge funds head for domino collapse / A Higher Power Informs the Republican Assault on the Environment / US Rejects Airline Climate Taxes, EU Considers / How almost everyone in Kerala learned to read / Kudzu root extract may curb excess drinking
Viridian Greens confront Kunstler / What’s on the other side of the Hubbert Curve? / Alien American dream changes the Earth as some of us awaken / Bush urges development of alternate fuels /
Oil giants gambling on “green” fuel / Old foes soften to nuclear / Government report gives new wind to green energy in UK / Accidents reveal troubles at Mexico’s oil monopoly / New issue of HopeDance / Rural enterprises in UK and Czech Rep. / New issue of CSIRO newsletter / How do Japanese dump trash? Let us count the myriad ways / China’s quest for a modern flush / Argentine town hopes to transform wind into windfall
Community Solutions newsletter on Peak Oil economics / Kunstler interview in Salon / PO – “a promissory word of new birth” / Berkeley energy professor roasts Bush / Climate change’s nuclear fix / Ecuador gets Chávez’d / Oil fuels programs for poor in Venezuela / Problems aplenty in a world of plenty / Australia ‘throwing away too much food’ / Increase in ‘dead zones’ starving the world’s seas / Germany plans to triple wind power
Today’s Prophetic Noahs and Paul Reveres Sound Alarms / Oil Doomsday is Nigh, Tar Sands Not a Substitute / Qatar to revolutionise diesel market / Bush energy policy: So stupid, it’s painful
