Coal – Sept 18
Out with the coal, in with the flue
Scientists call for curbing coal burning
Dirt on the coal supply (audio and slideshow)
Staff
Tar sands & oil sands – Sept 18
Investors press for disclosure of tar sands’ climate risk
Environmentalists target oil sands investors
Weak oil and debt markets may bedevil oil sands plans
Peak Oil Notes – Sept 18
A mid week update including:
– Numerous crises
– Nigeria
Peak oil – Sept 17
An urban legend to comfort America: alternative energy will save us
Peak oil, or just peak oil prices?
Were we wrong to fret about peak oil?
High costs could prompt premature end to oil production
Health care begins to feel impact of oil prices
Food & agriculture – Sept 17
Food banks finding aid in bounty of backyard
Don’t put all your eggs in one food basket: experts
Scientist says ag costs continuing to rise
Future of Food director Garcia on ‘making soil sexy’
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 17
Reflections and visions
Parallel culture: The power of the consumer
Collapse of Wall Street precedes complete disintegration of system. About those “green jobs”
Physicists: Energy efficiency crucial
Eliminating wasted energy from automobiles, homes and businesses is equivalent to tapping a hidden energy reserve that will help the United States improve its energy security and reduce global warming, an American Physical Society (APS) study panel concluded in a major report released today.
How to grow a four-season garden – Part 2
How to grow food year-round, with special attention to extending the growing season for the fall and winter.
America’s self-inflicted societal collapse
I have argued elsewhere that our American way of life is not sustainable, and I have presented compelling evidence to demonstrate that America is on the verge of imminent societal collapse. The purpose of the following paper is to make the case that we — all Americans — through our distorted worldview and resulting dysfunctional resource utilization behavior, are responsible for our “predicament”, and that we lack the collective will to take meaningful action to mitigate its catastrophic consequences.
UK government responds to oil depletion e-petition
“The Government’s assessment is that the world’s oil resources are sufficient to prevent global total oil production peaking in the foreseeable future. This is consistent with the assessment made by the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its recent 2007 World Energy Outlook (WEO), which concludes that proven reserves are already larger than the cumulative production needed to meet rising demand until at least 2030.”
The minimum tools for small-time garden farming
One of the chief advantages of the small garden farm based on grassland farming with pasture and crop rotations is that only a small portion of the total farm is cultivated, and of that cultivated part, only an even smaller portion needs to be cultivated at any one time. To ascertain your power and tool requirements on such a farm, you do not look at total acreages, but rather the number of acres that necessarily have to be cultivated in any one day.
How do we deal with all of the financial distress?
Looking at the situation from a historical perspective, we have been privileged to live in the world at a very unusual time – a time when oil was in abundance, and we were able to have conveniences that people a few generations ago wouldn’t even have dreamed of. We know that this must come to an end, and that gradually we will get back to a world more like it has been over the millions of years that people have walked the earth.
