Sarkozy at Davos – Jan 28
-Sarkozy seeks a new order and throws down gauntlet to China
-Davos 2010: Sarkozy calls for revamp of capitalism
-Sarkozy’s Unpragmatic Vision
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Peak oil notes – Jan 28
A midweek roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-Venezuela
Economics – Jan 28
-Investors add spice to rising food prices
-God, Keynes, and Clean Energy
-Peak Autos: America’s Love Affair with the Automobile May Be Coming to an End
-Pavan Sukhdev: you can have progress without GDP-led growth
-What Can We Learn from Gift Economies?
Oil talk at Davos – Jan 28
-Davos – Global Energy Outlook
-Davos 2010: a new peak in oil production is needed, energy leaders argue
-Conflicting views over ‘peak oil’
UK – Jan 28
-UK Government Classifies Eco Activists as ‘Extremists’ Alongside Al Qaeda
-UK call for European CAP farming subsidies reform
-Moorlands and hills targeted to grow crops for biomass and biofuels
Peak oil, prices, and supplies – Jan 28
-Shell forced into oil sands U-turn
-IEA to Meet CFTC, OPEC, Banks on Curbing Speculation
-Clueless about oil prices
-Team of Rivals
How To Ruin Organic Farming
This is supposed to be good news. Our dear government has finally recognized that organic farmers are at least as deserving of bribery as all those sinful chemical farmers.
January 2010 US Natural Gas Update
Natural gas prices continue their recovery. Cold weather has caused high levels of space heating that have resulted in reduced gas storage inventories. Henry Hub spot prices have recovered from their September $2.18 low to an average price of $5.56/MMbtu in the week ending January 22, 2010 (Figure 1). The average daily spot price for 2009 was $3.95/MMbtu…
A short history of peak oil preparation
Frankly, when I first learned about peak oil, I was a bit freaked out. But after time, a little too much wine, a lot of research, and some productive action, I recovered, and went on to slowly change my attitude, expectations, and lifestyle to accommodate a radically different reality from the one I previously knew.
Community Food Enterprise: Local Success in a Global Marketplace (article and report excerpts)
It’s time to connect the headlines between persistent unemployment in the United States and growing food insecurity. The next Obama stimulus package should focus on how local food can address both simultaneously.
For men
Overwhelmingly history suggests that the psychological trauma of watching your world transformed often strikes men, particularly men of middle age and above, harder than it does women. How do we soften the blow?
A farming model to sustain the world
Ten years from now, in 2020, when we try to look back, Indian agriculture can be transformed into a healthy and vibrant system where farmer suicides have been relegated to history, where distress and despondency has been replaced by the lost pride in farming, where agriculture becomes sustainable in the long run, and does not add on to global warming.
