Autos – Dec 21
The Highwaymen – privatization of the roads
U.S. Interstate: A golden opportunity missed
Detroit: Misguided assault on autos won’t solve energy crisis
Ford’s new Super Duty trucks
The auto efficiency wedge
Staff
Air – Dec 21
EU tackles aircraft CO2 emissions (kind of)
Monbiot: Ministers know emissions trading won’t work
Aviation and oil depletion
Airlines toss enough cans each year to build fleet of airliners
Food & agriculture – Dec 21
Vandana Shiva on farmer suicides & more
Pot becomes top cash crop in US
An organic recipe for development
Federal subsidies turn farms into big business
Inuit diet touted as health tonic
Climate policy – Dec 21
Planting trees is far from pointless
India Says its GHGs not harming world
Climate change clash in Africa
No dramatic U-turn seen on U.S. climate policy
Climate policy could hinder renewables
Cuba’s strange path
Cuba has become the poster child for a transition away from an agricultural economy based on fossil fuel inputs and for a society focused on self-sufficiency. Strangely, it may owe much of its success in this regard to its relative backwardness and its isolation from the world community.
Nawida 2150: Q&A
A final look at the deindustrial scenario sketched out in the last five Archdruid Reports — a world that has finished sliding down the far side of Hubbert’s peak.
Turning off the digital world
More than 6 million PCs will be left on over Christmas, consuming nearly 40 million kilowatt hours of electricity. Many of our beloved technological toys are remarkably inefficient and use more electricity than they really need to.
The peak oil crisis: the Council of Governments
The report [for the Washington D.C. area] acknowledges and even describes in much detail that there is a debate going on about peak oil. Unfortunately when the authors start talking about production starting to peak 20 years from now the sense of urgency is somehow lost.
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 19
Language as a tool for culture change in agriculture
Flannery: Make the polluter pay
10 days without fossil fuels
Can Weird Al Yankovic save the world?
Dollar hegemony – Dec 19
The end of Dollar supremacy
Lester Brown: Why China is rising and the U.S. is declining
Venezuela, oil producers buy Euro as Dollar, oil fall
Dollar dropped in Iran asset move
Chief banker says Iran to use all currencies in int’l exchanges
WSJ: Dollars, debt and the trade gap
Debut of the ‘Amero’?
New Zealand’s response to Peak Oil
The New Zealand Sustainable Energy Forum has proposed a plan of action to help New Zealand respond to Peak Oil.
Biofuels – Dec 19
Grist: What we’ve learned from the biofuels series
Growing corn for ethanol has limits
China to limit use of grains for biofuels
Mergers create biofuel majors
