Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff 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.”
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?
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.
A statement last night by President Bush raises questions about the reasonableness of future world oil production estimates by EIA and IEA: “If [the Saudis] don’t have a lot of additional oil to put on the market, it is hard to ask somebody to do something they may not be able to do.”
There is nothing that says, “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” quite like a trip to China with Edward Burtynsky, an internationally known Canadian photographer.
The western oil companies that have swaggered their way through the halls of power since the beginning of the last century are losing out to Aramco, Gazprom, PetroChina, and so on. Now another underpinning of Western primacy in the world — global finance — is going the same way.
A systems approach is crucial to assess the energy yield, carbon neutrality, and the full impact of biofuel production on downstream and downwind ecosystems.
Kunstler: Disarray – The US economy has entered a black hole
“Kunslter was right” files: Heating costs the IED of suburbia
Empty houses home to crime as loans fail
Slow Money Revolution: the global growth of local currencies
Grow your own way: How to join the allotment in-crowd
Toward a post-oil community
Ted Trainer and Rob Hopkins interview continued
Peak Moment: What Can One Person Do?
Indonesia: No longer an oil exporter
Total CEO: Near peak
Simmons: $100 oil “pretty cheap”
Simmons interview
Economist predicts $1.50 a litre for gasoline
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The Economic Slowdown
– Troubles in Central Africa
– Electricity Shortages
– Energy Briefs
The world’s biggest car maker, General Motors, believes the global oil supply has peaked and a switch to electric cars is inevitable.
