Biofuels – July 20
Should it matter where your biodiesel comes from?
Ethanol fuels global run-up in food prices
Corn biofuel ‘dangerously oversold’
Report pooh-poohs corn biofuels
Staff
Climate policy – July 20
Climate change and true cost pricing
Making millions from climate change?
Greens to banks: Just say no to coal
Climate science – July 20
Huge dust plumes from China changing climate
Sea levels may rise by 9 inches this century
Drought in Western Africa launches migration wave
Strange – July 20
Bathtub toys circle globe
Rising floodwaters evict billions of Chinese mice; hillsides are black
Culture death
Cultural patterns, like political institutions, are likely to go through drastic changes as a society based on cheap abundant energy has to stand its assumptions on its head to deal with the twilight of fossil fuels. Can societies that have turned their cultural resources into a sideline of the marketing industry put them to more sustainable uses?
Barefoot, bearded and in the kitchen: feminism post-peak
I got an email from a reader named Chris who asked me whether all of my emphasis on producing food and meeting our needs at home wasn’t antifeminist and pushing women back into the kitchen and out of the workforce, and thus, out of the public sphere.
Peak oil – July 19
OPEC countries ignore West’s agenda
Updated oil forecasts, including S.A.
Dubai crude output down rapidly
Iraqi oil production still below target
ODAC news
NPC report on oil/gas supplies – July 19
Peak oilers: “We’ve won respect”
NPC acknowledges peak oil
Globe & Mail: Oil executives sound alarm
Bloomberg:Oil supply to trail demand by 2030
Denver Post: Oil-shale funding promoted
Dallas News: NPC stresses urgency
Population – July 19
Citizens arrest
Abstinence Education Faces an Uncertain Future
World Population Day Targets Men
Indonesia Copies China’s Planned Family Program
Astyk: Talking Population With the Old Men
Transport – July 19
BREAKING: New York City’s traffic fee plan wins state OK
What drives quality of life for seniors? Driving
Flying high on pond scum
Energy policy – July 19
Ministers speak out on Chile’s energy crisis
China and Turkmenistan sign energy deals
Venezuela: Idea of ‘energy security’ in U.S. is fantasy
United States – July 19
Foreign demand for U.S. securities surges to record (but China sells U.S. Treasuries)
The battered Hummer that symbolises a divided nation
Murdoch’s arrival worries Wall Street Journal employees
