Economics – Apr 11
Fuel costs just part of airlines’ list of woes
Energy price controls in China
Predicting the end of the commodity bubble
Climate change opportunity
Staff
Renewables – Apr 11
The energy scene in India
Renewable energy not always sustainable (Latin America)
Iceland has power to burn
Renewable energy jobs soar in Germany
Fertilizers and glyphosate – Apr 11
Peak weed-killer?
Jeypore: Shortage of fertiliser hits farmers
Australian farmers attack fertiliser pricing
Food & agriculture – Apr 11
NYT editorial: The world food crisis
Starving Haitians riot as food prices soar
We’ll reap what we sow (US farm bill)
As prices rise, farmers spurn conservation program
Housing & urban design – Apr 11
Scrapping skyscrapers
Exhibit recalls architecture’s response to the 1973 oil crisis
Low-carbon living takes off in the US – cohousing
Kunstler and Homer-Dixon
Plastics and rubber – Apr 11
First town in Europe to ban plastic bags
Schools offered uniforms made from old bottles
Harnessing biology, and avoiding oil, for chemical goods
Setting sail for Garbage Island (floating plastics)
Brazil builds £10m condom factory to help save rainforest
Peak oil – Apr 11
Rep. Bartlett at Ohio State teach-in
Chinese scholar on oil: Old supply, young demand
Wither peak oil at Rudd’s 2020 Summit?
IMF accepts peak oil ?
James Hansen: Yankee ticket prices and fossil fuels
Green car checklist
The species homo automobilicus would much rather wait for technological silver bullets than adopt lifestyle changes – especially as regards unlimited personal motorized mobility.
The peak oil crisis: The first shortages
Fuel prices alone are unlikely to bring America to its senses. It clearly will take outright shortages with lines at the pumps, curtailed deliveries and many other misfortunes before serious measures –- speed limits, rationing, mandatory car pools, improved mass transit — are taken.
Boomtown
What happens when an oil field as big as any in the Middle East is discovered in the desolate border towns of Montana and North Dakota?
Lost at sea
What effects have oil price increases had on real U.S. GDP growth in the last 7 years? To be honest, nobody really knows—yet. We will all find out eventually.
Master Conservers
For those who lived during the last round of energy crises, grain shortages and the surging price of crude oil bring back memories of the Seventies. Some of the responses to that earlier time of troubles may offer useful tools for the round now looming over the industrial world.
