Food & agriculture – Oct 21
Oregon farmers are loving biosolids
(Re)discovering (s)oil
Agriculture: Unsustainable Resource Depletion Began 10,000 Years Ago
Oregon farmers are loving biosolids
(Re)discovering (s)oil
Agriculture: Unsustainable Resource Depletion Began 10,000 Years Ago
Citizen diplomacy and global innovation
A financial new world order?
Crisis inspires rethinking of ‘Reaganomics’
Colin Powell endorses Barack Obama
Completely unplugged, fully green (NY Times on Sharon Astyk)
A tipping point for the climate action movement
Gus Speth interview: Change everything now
How do we deal with an energy crisis?
Russia Draws Closer to Venezuela (text & video)
Ahmadinejad slams US for Iraq ‘oil theft’
U.S. policies may have contributed to Iran revolution, study says
The Big Necessity: Why I Wrote a Book About Human Waste
The Zero Life: Two weeks, a zero-waste kit, and no trash
Minimizing waste, through the lens of the lab (text amd video)
A year without shopping
UK wind farm plans on brink of failure
Shell pulls out of its last UK wind farm project
Miliband’s blueprint for greener homes
A digest of peak oil news including:
– Oil amidst the financial crisis
– The OPEC production cut
– The Russian meltdown
– Briefs
There is immediate need for a coherent policy with which the new US administration can deal with both the financial crash and the energy transition. Instead of propping up failing financial institutions, the new president must inject investment into the real economy by supporting wide-ranging but tightly coordinated projects to create far more renewable energy generation capacity, build railroads and public transport facilities, insulate millions of homes while providing alternative heat sources, and re-configure the national food system to dramatically reduce and soon eliminate the need for fossil fuels.
New Scientist: Time to banish the god of growth
How our economy is killing the Earth
Why do we need economic growth?
Michael Klare: The crisis and the environment
What would the bank-bail out money buy for the environment?
A Green New Deal is essential (UN campaign)
The long-term solution to our financial crisis: the other forms of capital
Weaving the magic number, 350, into Transition
US climate change activists go on trial
Methane hydrates: Energy’s most dangerous game
Climate change and wildfires
Julian Darley: Spotting trouble with money and energy before it bites you
Jim Puplava interview: Making financial sense of the coming energy crisis
Wallerstein on the Depression: a long-term view
A peak portfolio