Food & agriculture – May 5
Multinationals make billions out of food crisis
A Full plate today, uncertainty tomorrow
Food impact: meat vs miles
Canada: Are we losing our food sovereignty?
Staff
UK solutions & setbacks – May 5
As oil prices soar, getting heat from peat
Boom in green roofs and rainwater harvesting
Switch off your tumble dryer
Londoners ‘grow their own’ YouTube site
Green tax revolt: Britons ‘will not foot bill to save planet’
Peak oil – May 5
Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger on peak oil
Washington Times: The coming crisis
Ellen Ratner (WND): America’s oil
Consumption and poverty – May 5
The gospel of consumption and the better future we left behind
The coming collapse of the middle class
Middle class on the precipice
Asian leaders issue poverty warning
Peak Oil Review – May 5th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– U.S. Politics
– Nigeria
– Iraq
– Energy Briefs
U.S. thinking on energy – May 4
Michael Klare: The new geopolitics of energy
Lester Brown: Reducing our carbon footprint
Carbon-free and nuclear-free: Roadmap for US energy policy
Dysfunction – May 4
Thousands riot over power cuts in India
Pakistan: Air conditioners and power shortages
Harley-Davidson: “Screw it. Let’s Ride.”
Energy producers – May 4
Bolivia takes over four energy companies
Iran’s yen for the euro
Kuwait minister:
Gulf States may end $ pegs
Peak oil voices – May 4
James Howard Kunstler on the Colbert Report
Kunstler responds to critics
Rep. Bartlett 43rd PO speech to Congress
Heinberg speaks with Vermont leaders
The just-in-time economy crumbles
The realization that just-in-time methods have ceased to serve us well comes at a time when it is exceedingly difficult and expensive to build a stockpile of anything.
Climate – May 4
Oxygen-poor ocean zones are growing
Nature article on ‘cooling’ confuses media, deniers
Farmers face climate challenge in quest for more food
Gas tax: it’s still time to increase it
The gas tax holiday is being properly blasted as the insane idea it is. In that context, could we go one step further and actually suggest that increasing the gas tax makes a lot of sense?
