Renewables – May 13
Sleeping giant Brazil awakes (biofuels)
UK palm oil consumption fuels Colombia violence
Report says wind can produce a fifth of US electricity needs by 2030
Staff
Prices – May 12
Jad Mouawad: Politicians search for a solution to high oil prices, answers evade them
A peek behind the price at the pump (sinking dollar)
Mystery Indian analyst spooks world economy (Murti of Goldman Sachs)
Fertilizers – May 12
Nitrogen fix – nature’s way to make fertilizer
Australian Compost Week (half a billion dollars of compost)
No relief in sight for high fertilizer prices
PotashCorp quotes Borlaug: ‘without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.’
Food & agriculture – May 12
India’s Green Revolutionary Swaminathan favors conservation farming and green technology
Britain’s food crisis
China and India alter food equation
World’s oceans running out of fish
Renewables – May 12
Scientist Ramanathan: Solar-cookers could cut pollution
Rockefellers get more muscle in fight to make Exxon focus on renewables
Vinod Khosla (biofuels interview)
Climate – May 12
Bill McKibben: Civilization’s last chance
Danish PM links energy security and climate
David Attenborough: ‘Wasting energy is an appalling thing’
Peak oil: “It’s the flows, stupid!”
Because they don’t understand peak oil, many reporters keep getting the story wrong. Because they don’t understand peak oil, some in the U.S. Congress and Senate now threaten to sue OPEC. Because they don’t understand peak oil, business journals keep whining that producer nations don’t practice rational economics.
Peak Oil Review — May 12th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– ASPO-Ireland’s Depletion Model
– The Goldman Sachs Forecast
– Brazil’s Deepwater Discovery
– Energy Briefs
What organic homesteading is all about
The beauty of the organic homestead is that “work” is self-willed, not commanded from on high or dictated by economic necessity. “Work” becomes creative, individualistic, done out of love, not someone else’s sense of duty.
U.S. security linked to our ability to withstand shortages
Domestic security, energy efficiency, renewables, and international security are interrelated. Domestic security is enhanced by designing “resilient communities,” communities that continue to function when cut off from external energy sources.
Housing & transportation – May 12
Parking space as living space
Brentwood, poster child for housing bust
Krugman: We’re Number One! (in car use)
Extreme commutes
Bicycle sales up
Investors forget that transport companies run on oil
Peak oil – May 12
ASPO President Kjell Aleklett’s blog: Future of OPEC?
The end of OPEC
Peak oil and what it means to Long Island
Low supply – end of the road for cheap oil
