Food & agriculture – Aug 28
The power of produce (health claims)
Farming the concrete jungle
Study links CO2 to demise of grazing lands
Zimbabwe: Give fertilizer sector priority on power
Useful mutants, bred with radiation
Staff
Deep thought – Aug 28
Sharon Astyk: Diversify, diversify, diversify
The Plan (a new human culture)
The Economist: Problems of aging, shrinking population
Economics – Aug 27
Daddy, where does money come from?
Sharon Astyk: My one and only stock market advice post
No reason to assume she’ll be right, mate
Food & agriculture – Aug 27
Mutiny shakes US food aid industry
To eat …. or to drive?
Goodbye beautiful Britain
The agonies of agflation
Visions – Aug 27
Destination Earth – delightful 1956 oil propaganda cartoon
Archdruid: Uncharted Waters
The end of traffic jams?
Peak oil – Aug 27
Trinidad: Peak oil- less government revenue
ODAC News
Petroleum Symposium at University of Chicago
Peak oil war game
Transport – Aug 27
In India, one cheap car could go a long way
Sharon Astyk: Get on a bike
How walkable is your neighborhood?
Virgin Blue finds fuel costs add drag
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 27
The kibbutz sheds socialism and gains popularity
Know your carbon impact
100-square-foot house fits him
MIT pushes the revolving door to save energy
Efficiency measures could cut data center, server energy use by half
Peak Oil Review — August 27, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– China’s Economy
– Russian Exports
– Energy Briefs
NPC report is hand grenade in bubble wrap
Facing the Hard Truths About Energy is perplexing, even schizophrenic. In maddening fashion, it blends numerous cautions about the “accumulating risks” to global oil and gas production with repeated, rosy reassurances that we “aren’t running out,” as if anyone said we were.
Climate – Aug 27
Will oceans surge 59 centimetres this century – or 25 metres?
Montana expert: Extreme heat may be norm
What if climate change is worse than the forecasts?
Examining the science of global warming skepticism
Australia: Water shortage to cost dearly
Coal – Aug 27
King Coal: What it costs us
With coal production, cleaner skies could mean more landfills
