Peak oil notes – Sept 17
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– Elsewhere
Tom Whipple
Food & agriculture – Sept 17
-Japan’s recession brings growing interest in fruit and vegetables
-Thoughts on the legacy of Norman Borlaug
-The Ultimate in Eating Local: My Adventures in Urban Foraging
-The Big Question: Should landowners be forced to give up space for allotments?
-Gardens launch own organic meat
-Feeding the future: Saving agricultural biodiversity
-Davenport man: Good time to plant food in public spaces
-USDA to unveil “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food” initiative
-Feeding the world: which countries are most at risk?
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 17
-What we need to form Florida’s green economy
-Britain’s first housing co-op leads the way in sustainable living
-No Impact Man and the Pursuit of Happiness
-Enabling Inward Community Investment: insights from the DTA conference
-Squatters’ rights
-One Man’s Trash …
-Real people, real preparation, Part 5, Carolyn Baker Interviews Robin Rucker
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Coal – Sept 17
-World Bank spends billions on coal-fired power stations
-EPA moves to block W.Va.’s largest mining permit
-“The Coal Nightmare”
Daydreams of Destruction
The troubled future of industrial society has become tangled up in our collective imagination with a dizzying array of hopes and fears. Will the end of our age bring more meaningful and fulfilling lives to the survivors, as some people insist nowadays, or have daydreams of destruction become an inkblot onto which too many people project fantasies of redemption?
Water – September 17
-Prime Minister, we have a water problem
-Water shortage in Mexico results in fines
-Atlantic rising: Adapting to climate change in Morocco
Population – Sept 17
-Factoring People Into Climate Change
-When It Comes to Pollution, Less (Kids) May Be More
-Copenhagen and population growth: the topic politicians won’t discuss
Transition town local currencies (what’s that all about?) – Sept 17
-Will the Brixton pound buy a brighter future?
-Stroud Pound unveiled
-The Stroud Pound Hits the Tills
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Next Price Spike
While much higher oil prices three or four years from now, coming from new production failing to keep up with depletion of existing fields seem highly likely, the current issue is whether prices will climb into economy-damaging territory in 2009, 2010, or 2011.
No more GDP, we want happiness! – Sept 16
-French President Nicolas Sarkozy champions quality-of-life measures
-Stiglitz Urges End to GDP ‘Fetish’ in Favor of Broader Measures
-How To Make Capitalism Better: Conclusions from the Tomorrow’s Capitalism programme
-Sarkozy and Stiglitz: A New Way to Grow
Economics – Sept 16
-Obama urges banks to accept new sense of responsibility
-Through the prism of fraud and poverty
-Keep banks on the straight and narrow
-A Critique of Ecological Economics
-From job to handouts in six weeks
-US Census Bureau Confirms Rising Poverty, Falling Incomes, And Growing Numbers Of Uninsured
-Can he fix it? Sarkozy’s carbon-tax plan derided by environmentalists
-New York Faces Dramatic Consequences of Crisis
Renewables & efficiency – Sept 16
-State predicts bright future for jobs in solar energy
-German Geothermal Project Leads to Second Thoughts After the Earth Rumbles
-Trees could be the ultimate in green power
-Renewables Transition 3: The Precautionary Principle
-Hawaii Tries Green Tools in Remaking Power Grids
-Schwarzenegger orders more renewable energy — his way
