Transport – June 21
Vatican issues ’10 Commandments’ for drivers
Oregon death prompts bill protecting cyclists
Australia: Cheap fuel a sham
Staff
Food & agriculture – June 21
Why wheat shot up 30% in 3 weeks
UK environment agency: go vegetarian
Mexican farmers replace tequila plant with corn
Research president discusses the economic threat of peak oil
President of research firm Management Information Systems Dr Roger Bezdek discusses the economic dangers of peak oil with Ali Moore.
Food & agriculture – June 20
Living on Cuba’s rationed food
Agricultural production crisis: India’s Barnala
Expanding deserts hurts farmers in China
Mahendra Kumar: Impacts of climate change on people and food
Slurping prawns, sizing up organic miles
The end of the line (overfishing)
Solutions & sustainability – June 20
New age town in U.S. embraces dollar alternative
Notes on the Midwest Renewable Energy Fair
Alex Steffen: Limits and brilliance
Peak oil – June 20
Behavioral aspects of peak oil
Radio Free Europe: Clock ticking on global oil supply
Pay attention to oil price naysayers (TOD)
Crude-oil benchmarks’ ties go awry
Bezdek on ABC
Energy producers – June 20
The plan to disappear Canada
Nigeria: A closer look at “above ground factors”
The Soviet collapse: grain and oil
United States – June 20
NYT: Crunch time on energy
National security implications of energy and climate change
The real price of gasoline
Trash – June 20
Plastic bag revolt spreads across Britain
The state of Britain’s rubbish
Climate – June 20
The Earth today stands in imminent peril
Saving Holland
RealClimate on Cockburn’s climate denial
Burundi: shrinking lakes and denuded forests
“It is hard to imagine carbon as an illegal substance”
A paradigm shift
“Oil producers are no longer inclined to rapidly exhaust their resource for the sake of accelerating the misuse of a precious and finite commodity. This sentiment prevails inside and outside of OPEC countries but has yet to be appreciated among the major energy consuming countries of the world.”
China overtakes US as world's biggest CO2 emitter
China has overtaken the United States as the world’s biggest producer of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, figures released today show.
