Food & agriculture – Dec 3
A dirty way to fight climate change: Store carbon in the soil
Ending famine by ignoring the experts
Fertiliser at a price – if you can get it
Co-operatives: alternatives to industrial food
Staff
Easy way to start a grove of trees (with black walnut jam cake recipe)
I find in my tree sanctuaries what no king or CEO (today’s version of a king) can buy for any amount of money: tranquility.
What will we eat as the oil runs out?
Our global food system faces a crisis of unprecedented scope. This crisis, which threatens to imperil the lives of hundreds of millions and possibly billions of human beings, consists of four simultaneously colliding dilemmas, all arising from our relatively recent pattern of dependence on depleting fossil fuels.
Post Kyoto: the state of Denmark
Denmark prides itself of some small contribution to life after peak oil. The year 2001 brought an end to this, however. But with the November 2007 election, environmental policy has once again been put in forward gear.
Peak oil – Dec 3
Oil decline pressing Vermonters now
Connecticut legislator in a bind: PO vs LNG
IBM engineer on peak oil
Peak oil, class struggle, and the thermodynamics of production
$100 oil fades fast
Capturing the energy opportunity: creating a low-carbon economy
Energy platfrom from a liberal think tank proposing to “1) Grow our economy through the transformation to a low-carbon economy 2) Recreate a ladder of economic mobility.”
Oil producers – Dec 2
The high-stakes U.S. courtship of Turkmenistan
Venezuela threatens to cut oil exports to U.S
The 10 oil producers most likely to shock the world
OPEC countries will rival China in 08 oil demand growth
Oil industry – Dec 2
Fire shuts key Canada-U.S. pipeline
Big Gav on shale oil
Massive Canadian oilfield could be exploited using new system (THAI)
What to do – Dec 2
Five ways to save your business money during the recession (and peak oil)
Scientific America: 10 solutions for climate change
How US could cut 28% of greenhouse gases
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 2
Japan for Sustainability
Jan Lundberg on climate change and petrocollapse
Dutch horticulture, traffic, key to green future
Interview with author of The World Without Us
This stove cooks — but burns
United States and Canada – Dec 2
Deal reached on fuel economy standards
Can solving global warming save our economy?
Mr. Harper’s cold comfort for Canadians
Oil Scrooge boosts costs for shipping
Mindful eating crusader to take top US nutrition post
Our medical system: it’s time to face peak oil
Medical executives center their attention on “cost, quality and coverage” while considering rising energy prices, especially oil, a minor concern. This is a colossal misjudgment of medicine’s dependence on fossil fuels and the fact that the “hydrocarbon era” is entering its final stages.
