Food & agriculture – July 1
Toward a garden truce in New York City
UK organic food under threat- too much demand
Conservative Hanson: Fuel and food create spiral of rising prices
Call for a moratorium on EU agrofuel incentives
Staff
Deceptive landscape
My pleasant walk through these leafy streetscapes is deceptive. For all its orderliness this neighborhood generates enormous entropy that is hidden from the viewer’s eyes. This has implications for our political life because these are the kinds of neighborhoods across the United States from which communities draw their leaders and in which turnout is heaviest during election time.
Unrealized benefits of transport electrification are within reach
Disruptive high power battery technology is going into production in California. Moving transport combustion from the street to the power plant cuts oil utilization in half and reduces both “fuel” cost and emissions by two thirds.
Peak Oil Overview – June 2007
Clear explanation of peak oil from “Gail the Actuary.”
Oil producers – June 30
Venezuelan oil
Exeunt Exxon and Conoco
Big oil and big media v. Hugo Chavez
Mexico’s Calderon sees oil exports falling
Official U.S. report on Iraq oil legislation
Population & environment – June 30
This planet ain’t big enough for the 6,500,000,000 of us
UN warns urban populations set to double
American Institute of Biological Sciences on population, environment
The carbon cycle: Implications for climate change and Congress (gov’t report)
The media awake – June 30
America could do with a few feral beasts
Investigative journalism and the Washington elite
Moyers on Murdoch
Peak oil – June 30
ConocoPhillips sees some strains in the system
End Of Suburbia interview
The end of the world (as we know it)
Biofuel pioneer: Addressing the oil crisis
ASPO-USA: The peak oil tango
Peak market economics
Solutions & sustainability – June 30
Julian Darley interview
Creating an Energy Descent Action Plan
Keep on the sunny side (solar)
Society ‘needs the right chemistry’
Peak oil – June 29
BP economist: World’s oil is plentiful
Peak oil theorists gush obfuscation!
Unrest grows amid gas rationing in Iran
Canada energy round-up
Big Gav’s energy news from Australia
North America – June 29
Dems’ plan on energy tilts (pale) green
California no longer leading on wind energy
Conservative think-tank calls for walloping carbon fee
The bullseye diet
Instead of a 100-mile diet, think of a bulls eye model, which emphasizes bringing as much of your diet as possible home to your local area.
