Transport – Oct 11
Mapping the future of bicycling, walking, and transit
Backyard car conversion kits
China drives shipping costs to record high
Staff
Biofuels – Oct 11
Nature: Kill King Corn
UN rapporteur calls for biofuel moratorium
NRC panel sees problems in ethanol production
Ethanol push could threaten water supplies
Canada and Arctic – Oct 11
Canadian gas output to plummet
Canadian economy is all about oil and minerals
Arctic waters are changing for oil drillers
Geopolitics – Oct 11
Petrodollars fuel rally in U.S. government bonds
France lays plans for a green future
Ranking industrialized countries’ enviro policies
European leaders sign pipeline deal
Media – Oct 11
Manipulating the climate message
Environmental news selected by journalists
Burma’s internet crackdown
Media analysis: Oil laws- colonising Iraq’s economic prize
An oil & gas Shangri-la in the Arctic?
Story after story in 2007 has proclaimed that the race is on in the melting Arctic: there’s black gold in them thar’ hills! It seems a shame to rain on everybody’s parade. What’s the harm of letting the polar nations indulge their fantasies of new fossil fuel riches?
Climbing down the ladder
Most efforts to devise new social and economic arrangements for the aftermath of peak oil attempt to make the transition to sustainability in a single leap. In the future of slow decline we most likely face, a different strategy may be more useful.
Peak oil – Oct 10
Van Jones: ‘Grow the comfort zone’
Heinberg attacks airlines’ bid to fly more Kiwis
Hubbert Linearization applied on Ghawar
BBC-Wales: Peak oil, local food and transition
Think oil can’t go higher? Think again
News Round-up from TOD:Canada
ODAC News
Deep thought – Oct 10
Economist: Playing games with the planet – “prisoner’s dilemma” suggests ways to break the Kyoto impasse
Monbiot: In this age of diamond saucepans, only a recession makes sense
We are in a bad fix: the peak crises
Nature: Is this what the world’s coming to?
Food & agriculture – Oct 10
Grist special series on food and farming
You grow up, change your life, travel a million miles – the spirit of this food stays with you
Rent-a-Grandma: Keepers of culinary roots teach a generation lost to cooking
Climate – Oct 10
Flannery discusses greenhouse gas levels
All eyes on Calif. climate-change fight
New site at Yale: climate change and the media
UK announces new green tax on flights
RFF panel analyzes alternative proposals for post-Kyoto strategy
Peak petroleum and public health
At some point early in the 21st century, likely well before mid-century, petroleum production will peak and begin to decline. This will increase prices for petroleum and for the many goods and services that require petroleum for their production and transport. This transition will have far-reaching effects across society. Within the health sector, direct and indirect effects will be felt on medical supplies and equipment, transportation, energy, and food. Health professionals need to anticipate, prepare for, reduce, and adapt to petroleum scarcity to protect public health in coming decades. [Excerpts]
