Peak Oil – Aug 17
Life in a Post-Carbon World /
The more precious commodity in 2050: Water or oil? /
CorpWatch: Bye Bye Petroleum /
The Politics of Dancing (Peak Oil in music) /
Michael Ruppert in exile: A Permanent Goodbye to the United States
Year: 2006
Peak Oil – Aug 16
Making Santa Monica a sustainable city in the face of peak oil and global warming /
CERA study disputes peak-oil arguments /
The price of crude can only rise while supplies dwindle worldwide /
Oil, water, weather crises will hit cities /
Economist reports Saudi oil production can continue unabated
Biofuels – Aug 16
Lester Brown: Ethanol could leave the world hungry /
Ethanol, Corn Users May Deplete US Supplies By 2008 /
Africa looks to shrubs and sugar to beat oil price /
OPEC President Discusses Ethanol
Is Sustainable Agriculture an Oxymoron?
ared Diamond calls it “the worst mistake in the history of the human race.” Bill Mollison says that it can “destroy whole landscapes.” Are they describing nuclear energy? Suburbia? Coal mining? No. They are talking about agriculture.
The peak oil crisis: rethinking America’s cars
To get through the first decades of peak oil, only those that get very high mileage, or preferably do not use liquid fuels at all, will be affordable or useful for most of us.
Col. Drake and the Age of Oil
What created the modern petroleum industry was a confluence of circumstances, and certainly of events. Col. Drake’s innovation in driving a hole into the earth was just one of many things along a long chain of events.
Whither cellulosic ethanol?
We are … biotechnologists, as well as chemical engineers and have successful processes going today… Our carefully considered view, for which we will be happy to provide abundant evidence is that severe barriers remain to ethanol from lignocellulose. The barriers look as daunting as they did 30 years ago.
(The latest salvo in the Khosla-TOD debate about biofuels.)
Water – Aug 16
Billions face water shortages, crisis looms: agency /
Cost of water shortage: civil unrest, mass migration and economic collapse / Rich countries like poor face water crisis
Environment – Aug 16
Large oil spills in Indian Ocean, Philippines /
Corroding sewers, not Alaskan oil pipes, are the real danger /
Water shortage ‘a global problem’ /
Why don’t we change?
Housing & urban design – Aug 15
Could rising gas prices kill the suburbs? / Sick cities: fast life, slow death / It’s getting easier to be green (building green in NYC) /
I think that I shall never see
A greenhouse gas reduction strategy as lovely as a tree
Transport – Aug 15
Australia: Petrol, polls and politicians / Two-wheeled remedy for urban headaches / American vehicles are piling on the pounds
Food, heatlh & agriculture – Aug 15
Overweight ‘top world’s hungry’ / Living ourselves to death / Eat, memory: family heirloom (Masumoto in NYT) / Meat eaters without the guilt / Texas 2006 ag losses worst single-year total ever / Rice prices may double by 2008
