Climate policy – Mar 24
Save forests to fight global warming: Stern
How Howard dealt Australia out of the greenhouse revolution
BHP chief’s doubts over clean coal technology
Don’t ask an artist to explain climate change
Staff
Solutions & Sustainability – Mar 24
How to keep them on the Farm once they’ve seen Manhattan?
Reducing Knowledge Management Failures
JM Greer – Pt3 of review of Korten’s The Great Turning
Warren Brown – car columnist and peak oil prophet
So far, Warren Brown is the only voice in the NY Times, Washington Post or LA Times who regularly speaks out on peak oil.
The Challenge of Affluence
An Oxford scholar has published a definitive work on why we’re not happier, even with rising levels of wealth.
McKibben – Happiness and the deep economy
Bill McKibben has been championing the themes of global warming, peak oil and sustainability for years. In his recently released book, Deep Economy, he focuses on relocalization and a rethinking of our conception of happiness.
Energy policy – March 23
CERA’s Yergin: Energy supply faces “growth challenge”
US experts seek India, China entry in global energy system
Results from 20 opinion polls on energy
Energy plan from John Edwards
Food & agriculture – March 23
Black Gold of the Amazon
Most important crops hit by global warming
Climate change hits cereal crops, lab says
In Midwest, young farmers priced out of land
China’s corn exports may plunge as local demand rises
Ganong: oil prices put strain on chocolate manufacturer
Biofuels – March 23
The millenary history of sugar cane
Catholic bishops slam Brazil ethanol growth plan
Ethanol reaps a backlash in Midwest
Giant oil fields and their importance for future oil production
PhD thesis develops a model to forecast future production from giant fields, which is then used to predict future oil production. In all scenarios, peak oil occurs at about the same time as the giant fields peak. Worst case: 2008. Best case: 2018.
Ethanol and biofuels
Non-partisan Congressional think tank concludes: “…there are limits to the amount of biofuels that can be produced and questions about the net energy and environmental benefits they would provide. Further, rapid expansion of biofuel production may have many unintended and undesirable consequences for agricultural commodity costs, fossil energy use, and environmental degradation.”
The elasticity of oil production and consumption
Classical economists still insist higher prices will bring out increased production sufficient to give us the oil we humans need. What’s the hitch?
Sustainability pubs on the move
The Oil Drum is terribly two today
Grist in Outside magazine: What’s so funny?
Conserve: News & analysis for a lasting society
In Canada – Granville magazine
New Irish magazine: Sustainabiity
