Peak oil – Nov 25
Deffeyes: To The Peak Oil Community
Shocks, Shortages, and Scenarios – Planning for a Post-Oil Future
IEA WEO 2008: The Oil Model – Summary and Suggestions for the WEO 2009
What’s up with the price of oil?
Staff
Energy industry – Nov 25
Alaska’s Key to Oil Production – It’s a Gas…
UK: Coal’s return raises pollution threat
Oil giants talk tax to kill environment
United States – Nov 25
A Detroit Bailout Must Include a Green Makeover
A Green Deal for Transportation
Is Obama’s Energy Plan Enough? No, Many Environmentalists Say
Obama’s green start
Housing & urban design – Nov 25
Lower speed limit to tackle obesity crisis, say experts
Planners to consider S.F. congestion charge
Bike accidents open door to paths
Council obstructs family’s ethical land project
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 25
Vt. engineer designs a good life for $5,000 a year
Bishop of Birmingham David Urquhart spreads the ‘green gospel’
We must plan a survival strategy for our species
Climate & environment – Nov 25
Monbiot: The planet is now so vandalised that only total energy renewal can save us
Forest protection plan could displace millions, say campaigners
Schwarzenegger’s bid to save the rainforest
Tell Barack Obama the Truth – The Whole Truth (about climate change) – PDF
A resilient suburbia? Weighing the potential for self-sufficiency
Suburbia has a significant potential to provide its own food, water, and energy. It won’t be as simple as snapping our fingers. And it likely won’t be possible for suburbia to consistently produce 100% of its needs. But I think one thing is quite clear: the potential increase in suburbia’s self-sufficiency is significantly greater than the potential for urban areas.
Economics – Nov 25
U.S. pledges top $7.7 trillion to ease frozen credit
Kunstler: Zombie economics
Homer-Dixon: Deflation’s big game
Bailouts dwarf spending on climate and poverty crises
Perelman: Where did the economic crisis come from?
Reality meets ideology (on Fox News)
Food & agriculture – Nov 25
Peak phosphorous
Thousands pick up free vegetables on Colo. farm
Radical producers go free-range on farm policy (Joel Salatin)
New geopolitics of world agriculture
Russia Today: Earth faces starvation
The new visible America
How the new racial landscape of America meets the Green movement, increasing the visibility of both.
The garden farm guide to beekeeping
I hesitate to describe the way I produce the 8 to 10 quarts of honey we eat every year. I ignore almost all the rules in bee books about producing honey, and I have done so for eight years without any ill effects at all. Commercial beekeepers will say I’ve just been lucky, and I suppose to some small degree that’s true. But you, too, can easily be that lucky while reducing the complications of beekeeping to a very simple, low-cost, and low-labor activity.
Preventing deforested moonscapes – Pt I
When electricity becomes too expensive, unreliable, or rationed, many people will very likely turn to wood to meet their heating and cooking needs. This strategy is valid and sensible for many reasons, and probably necessary in some parts of the country, but I think we should also examine the downside of using wood as a primary fuel source, and examine ways to mitigate the problems associated with burning wood.
