Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff More will be asked of us: Revisiting 100 million farmers
Forbes: Food vs fuel
Fuel costs give ag a chill
Farmer of the Year candidate doesn’t use muck
Climate a threat to farming and food supply
Africa: Food production to halve by 2020
Bruce Sterling post-peak short story
Brian Aldiss: Our science fiction fate
Rumpeltstiltskin updated
The Shell Game preview
A growing number of oil-industry chieftains are endorsing an idea long deemed fringe: The world is approaching a practical limit to the number of barrels of crude oil that can be pumped every day. (Excerpt and comments from Dave Cohen of ASPO-USA, Jeffrey Brown, Rep. Bartlett’s staff and Energy Bulletin)
Some 95% of motorized travel and freight movement by land, sea, and air is fuelled by oil products, accounting worldwide for consumption of some 60% of crude oil. …Our assessment of numerous alternatives to oil as a transport fuel concludes that, as oil depletion progresses, only electricity could reasonably power acceptable levels of land transportation.
The oil production forecasts that have been truly erroneous are not those of peak oil researchers, but those of the EIA, the IEA and CERA. These estimates are consistently biased high. One wonders whether the forecasts of these organizations are based primarily on forecasts of future demand, together with a large measure of wishful thinking.
Alcohol can be a gas
Hydrogen brewing gets an electrical boost
Biofuels bonanza facing ‘crash’
Cars out as London mayor clears way for Paris-style plage and cycle boulevards
City’s slicker: density means less impact
The world’s unsustainable population
Three’s a crowd
British leader pledges to lead world in reducing emissions
UK’s climate change department faces £300 million cuts
Atlanta may have to drink the dregs
Who’s talking about peak oil (quotes)
How should I prepare for life without oil?
Simmons and others in the media
Oil price could hit $150 a barrel
Bush to veto anti-OPEC legislation
Oil leaders’ private debate televised by mistake
Chavez blasts U.S. at OPEC summit
Saudi, Venezuela leaders differ on politicizing OPEC
Can Saudi square the oil circle?
UN: emissions growth must end in 7 years
UN report describes risks of inaction
A last warning on global warming
UN chief seeks more climate leadership
UN scientists urge carbon tax
UN issues dire report; effects on Swiss
