Biofuels – March 27
Economist: Biofuel may raise food prices
Farmers: future is not now for biomass ethanol
Energy companies rethink palm oil
Five years to save the orang utan
Monbiot: To save the planet, we need a five-year freeze on biofuels
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Food & agriculture – March 27
The 100-foot diet
The Crikey water diet
Natural vending machines and the psychology of snacking
Oil producers – March 27
As if gold weren’t bad enough, now they have found oil
Transparency urged in U.S. payments to oil producers
What’s happened to Iraq’s oil?
Sunni politicians critical of Iraqi oil law
Exxon sees technology, local needs as Mideast key
Iran: We will know soon…
An attack could have cataclysmic implications for the region, for the world economy, and not least for the oil import-dependent and nearly bankrupt US.
…Related late-breaking stories:
Russian intelligence sees U.S. military buildup on Iran border
U.S. launches show of force in Persian Gulf
U.S. Navy: Iran did not fire at U.S. warship
Oil spikes more than $5
Faustus and the monkey trap
What makes the crisis of industrial society so challenging to cope with is the way it unfolds out of the very strategies that worked so well in other contexts. Current attempts to replace oil with ethanol — in effect, pouring our food supply into our gas tanks — point to an urgent need to reconsider some of our most basic assumptions about what exactly the problem is.
Secure energy? Civil nuclear power, security & global warming
UK Government overestimates benefits of nuclear power and underestimates risks of nuclear proliferation and terrorism, says new report.
Urban & housing – Mar 26
Shrinking to Fit the Interstices
How green grows my roof
Low-carbon houses given tax breaks
Oil Industry – Mar 26
Venezuela to sell $5 Billion in oil co. bonds
Recent kidnappings of foreigners in Niger delta
China starts drilling Asia’s deepest well
Total Confusion in Iran
CERA lists 15 countries it believes will expand production
Oil Quiz – Test Your Knowledge
This Quiz presents the Peak Oil story in a different format. Discussion questions and additional references are provided at the end, so that the material can be used in a classroom setting.
U.S. energy policy – March 25
US Congress holds hearing on oil dependence
McFarlane: Renewable energy is best solution to terror threats
Big Oil buys Berkeley
Energy policy makes strange bedfellows
Transport – March 25
In Marin, walkers, bikers & hikers rule the road
China’s gas use to increase 24% by 2010
Transatlantic open skies deal will undo CO2 curbs, say Greens
Environmental discourse and the paradox of the open society
How does one fight back without destroying the very principles of openness that make it possible to draw on the talents of all while safeguarding freedom of expression?
