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Peak oil blindness

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American society, as an autopoietic system, by its very energy-intense design, is inclined toward blindness of certain stimuli in its environment… It is well known that any large-scale organization as a system adjusts slowly to alterations in its environment. This suggests that there may be more promise in correcting our vision at the micro level.

Petroleum reservoirs are mysterious

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Interview with Jeremy Gilbert, former Chief Petroleum Engineer at BP: “I expect to see a peak sometime before 2015, but I don’t think we’ll see a simple maximum followed by a decline. I foresee a series of maxima, each followed by a brief decline.”

Food & agriculture – May 7

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Questioning the compost supply chain
100-mile diet: ‘Food mile’ foibles.
As the climate warms, gentler plants move in
Please Lord, not the bees
Astyk: No more scrod
Could the mysterious agricultural techniques of an ancient Amazonian civilization make New Zealand farming more competitive?

Climate – May 7

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Mediterranean nations face up to climate change
City wakes up to economic threat of warming
Monbiot: Rich world’s policy on greenhouse gas now seems clear
Artefacts in ocean data hide rising temperatures
Recent climate observations compared to projections (Projections may have understated change)