Climate – Jan 28
Big business: climate ‘very low on agenda’
Making 2010 Winter Games carbon neutral
Everything’s Cool: a real-life disaster movie
Staff
Empire – Jan 28
Going bankrupt: Chalmers Johnson on military Keynsianism
An empire from a tub of goo (Canadian tar sands)
Waving goodbye to hegemony (now it’s US, EU, China)
The unraveling of Russia’s Europe policy
Food & agriculture – Jan 28
Farmers, plan ahead to avoid fertilizer shortages
Rethinking the meat-guzzler
A dying breed (animal breeds)
Astyk: How big is a farm? Who is a farmer?
Cuban permaculturalist to tour Australia
Peak Oil Review – January 28th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Trouble in China
– Shell
– Prospects for Iraqi Production
– Energy Briefs
The WSJ article on a CERA oil decline study
Critique of CERA’s study by the author of the “Hirsch report” on peak oil.
Cornucopians and their magical thinking
Magical thinking can often lift our spirits and make us think anything is possible, that is, until reality intrudes and leads to painful and sometimes catastrophic results.
Shell executive on peak oil, oil prospects
Excerpts from a long interview with Shell’s Jeroen van der Veer.
Mind the ruins
Lists of things worth saving from collapse and destruction can be made arbitrarily long: the wetlands, the symphony orchestra, the public library, the public transportation system, the solar sewage treatment plant… But in the US there is one category that never makes the list, and it is the most important one: ruins. Without much help from anyone, ruins can tell us of our history as a species.
Nuclear – Jan 25
Drought could force nuke-plant shutdowns
Future of Yucca, expansion of nuclear
Biofuels – Jan 25
Vinod Khosla: Biomass I, II and III
Der Spiegel: Critique mounts against biofuels
Food & agriculture – Jan 25
Eco-Farm: Eric Schlosser on Florida pickers and fair wages
Gates hopes his money can help poorest farmers
Canada: Faraway food production
Mendocino renegade
Housing & urban design – Jan 25
My other car is a bright green city
Daniel Lerch on post carbon cities
Mayors climate protection summit
