Peak oil – Jan 17
BP says world oil demand to peak
Benchmarks mark our likely advance to PO
Astyk: Making the case for PO and climate change
Kunstler and Kathy McMahon of PeakOilBlues
Staff
Renewables – Jan 17
SkySails and airborne wind turbines
China poised to be world leader in renewables
Scientific American: A solar grand plan
Sustainable energy grad school in Iceland
Nuclear – Jan 17
Britain reverses course on nuclear power
UK green advisers dismiss nuclear plans as ‘megafix’
TOD on nuclear Britain
Germany to remain anti-nuclear stronghold
Nuclear USA – terrifying
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 17
IPCC chief Pachauri: Lifestyle changes can curb climate change
Satish Kumar on nature, spirituality and activism
Christians playing their part in sustainability
Astyk: Making the case for self-sacrifice
A sustainability Renaissance man
Housing & urban design – Jan 17
Building green
Retrofitting your house for sustainability
Kunstler on the human habitat
CERA says global 4.5% decline rate means no near-term peak
“Some of the more gloomy, pessimistic ‘peak oil’ views about the future of oil supplies result from an assumption of high decline rates. This new analysis provides the basis for more confidence about the future availability of oil.”
The great coal hole
A number of recent reports suggest that coal reserves may be hugely inflated, a possibility that has profound implications for both global energy supply and climate change.
Tranforming communities through locally grown food
All the stereotypes of Rutland, Vermont as “backward” and “too conservative” to relocalize its economy through local agriculture are fading into the dustbin of history. (Interview with Greg Cox of Boardman Hill Farms.)
Middle East – Jan 16
Angry Iran warns Turkmenistan on gas
Iran Oil ministry ready to weather frost
Iraq: fuel crisis freezes life
Saudi Arabia scraps wheat growing to save water
Food, culture, and sustainability in the gardens of ethnic Americans
A new approach to gardening is highlighted in the book The Earth Knows My Name: “Just as you should never have a monocropped field, so you should never have a monocropped people. If we are going to think about diversity as the key to survival and saving the environment, I really think you can’t have biological diversity succeed without cultural diversity.”
Food & agriculture – Jan 16
Soil Association bans nanomaterials
Death rates and food prices
Making more food with less (biointensive)
Mushrooms to the rescue in SF Bay oil spill
Fiber CSA’s: Do you know where your yarn has been?
Can sustainable agriculture feed the world?
Prospects for China
China has an exquisite dilemma. If they allow their economy to expand too rapidly, and pay any price—they can obviously afford it—for additional imported oil while continuing to support domestic price ceilings, they will help push world oil and gasoline prices so high that they will harm their customers, driving down demand for their exports.
