Food & agriculture – Mar 17
Warning of world phosphate shortage
Heinberg’s garden
Edible landscape likely to become a U.S. paradigm
Staff
Climate & U.S. – Mar 17
Administration buries report on climate impacts on Gulf transport; muzzles scientists
Scholar: US should help China reduce emissions
US told to go green on carbon emissions or lose EU flights
Mainstream confronts peak oil – Mar 17
Christian Science Monitor
U.S.News & World Report (James Schlesinger)
Montreal Gazette
Toronto Star
International Business Times
Wall Street Journal
WSJ’s ECO:nomics conference
French Prime Minister
Healing the farmer, healing the land
If you eat more than one chemically grown watermelon you will get diarrhea, we learned from the organic watermelon farmer. Fourteen such melons had killed an elephant, he added.
Do we have too much energy?
Our biggest challenge is not related to getting enough energy. Our biggest challenge is to understand our relationship with energy and to recast it so that we may live more harmoniously with the world around us.
The peak oil crisis: the last spiral?
Missing from all the talk about the financial situation is a realistic appreciation of the role of oil in the world’s economy and the role increasing oil prices will play in the coming economic “recovery.”
Peak oil overview – March 2008
Peak oil update in the format of a downloadable presentation with comments. Major themes:
– The US oil story
– The world oil story
– Five myths
Housing & urban design – Mar 13
The next slum and the new green city
California needs more urban density
Cities on the edge of chaos
SUVs without wheels
Food & agriculture – Mar 13
How to grow your own wheat
So, you want to be a farmer?
Homegrown way to address climate change
Australia’s food bowl lies empty
The Saudis are blowing smoke again
Shortly after the oil price shattered the record inflation-adjusted high set in 1980, OPEC decided to sit on its hands and let events take their course… Despite some financial considerations, most of the oil price results from a fundamental disequilibrium between supply and demand in the oil markets.
Pieces of the puzzle
Too much discussion about responding to peak oil has focused on finding a single solution to the complex predicament we face. Start with the recognition that we don’t have any models for a sustainable technic society to work from, and a more flexible (and arguably more successful) strategy comes within reach.
Review: Kunstler’s World Made by Hand
James Kunstler’s vision of life post-peak gives even the most thoughtful doomers new things to think about and new ways to think about them.
