Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Brazils president urges US to invest in biofuels in poorer countries
Understanding the corn ethanol EROI divide
US corn exports to fall as ethanol use rises
As corn price rises, so could food bills
Expanded Biofuel Production Expected to Drive Up Food Prices
Nuclear waste containers will not work, say scientists
With apologies, nuclear power gets a second look
Does nuclear power now make financial sense?
Attack on Iran would be ‘catastrophic’, IAEA says
The UK’s Soil Association conference, titled “One Planet Agriculture: Preparing for a post-peak oil food and farming future,” aimed to kick-start the discussion on what practical measures farmers, consumers and local communities can take to become less energy reliant. The conference was the most over-subscribed in its history.
For decades, many prophets’ words have been lost in the winds of exuberant growth of human presence in this biosphere. But now, the reality of the finite energy and material resources may finally be creeping into the public consciousness. (Sermon)
Cambodia’s coming energy bonanza
Future of
NG from the Western Canada sedimentary basin
Long Beach LNG project halted
Years of flaws have killed Yucca Mtn nuclear repository, NRC member says
Bill McKibben: Step it up!
US answer to global warming: smoke and giant space mirrors
We’re ruining Earth, scientists warn (IPCC)
UN’s vast report ends the scientific argument, but will the world act?
Davos – not united on global warming
Helplessness:
“the exaggerated feeling of lack of control, of enormous danger, of inability to respond to danger, that comes from repeated exposure to actual or apparent threats.”
Rx:
1) get our facts straight.
2) become less helpless
3) learn how the world really works
Speech on peak oil by Congressman Bartlett to the House of Representatives.
Covers Admiral Rickover’s prescient remarks in 1957 on energy; critique of the CERA report; Chinese awareness of peak oil.
Professor: Bush’s dangerous energy proposal
Krauthammer: a serious plan requires taxes, ANWR and nukes
Chicken industry issues warning
Feed costs rising: meat groups want study
Roscoe Bartlett: man on a mission (interview)
Two warning beacons heralding the arrival of peak oil: Cantarell and Ghawar
Durango scientist debunks PO ‘myths’
Ten fundamental principles of net energy
Cornell professor says PO could be delayed
Oil at $35?
Street legal mass transport Flintstones-style
How to be good (to yourself)
Unions see greenbacks in ‘green’ future
Real-time energy feedback technology
Daydreaming improves thinking
O, pioneers in Pasadena (urban homesteading)
Heinberg predicts a local food renaissance
BBC: Eat like an ape, get healthy
British supermarkets going green
Deconstructing dinner: thought for food
Food or fuel in future?
