Housing & urban design – Oct 9
-Boom Towns
-Bloomberg’s “PlaNYC” Continues Forward Moves
-Review: My Kind of Transit: Rethinking Public Transportation in America
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What Peaked at the Same Time as Oil? Lots of things.
We know oil prices peaked in the third quarter of 2008–in fact in July 2008. But what else peaked about the same time? It turns out when you look at the data, lots of things…
Crop to Cuisine: Farm Aid 2009 & The Father of the Green Revolution
Crop To Cuisine discusses the life and accomplishments of Dr. Norman Borlaug. We also take a look at a new documentary exposing the inside of the beer industry. And we take hear from Catherine Friend about what it means to be a compassionate carnivore. All that and more.
The Metastasis of Money
The ubiquity of money is very nearly as much a defining feature of today’s industrial economies as the ubiquity of fossil fuel energy — and more than happenstance connects these two features. The third installment in a series.
Peak oil notes – Oct 8
A weekly round-up including:
– Production and prices
– Replace the dollar
– The Peak Oil Market
Food insecurity – Oct 8
-Moore decries buying up third world for food security
-How to Feed the World in 2050
-Climate change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation
-Crying Wolf: Climate Change Will Cost Farmers Far More Than a Climate Bill
Sustainable, local, and urban ag just keeps on growing – Oct 8
-The First Review of ‘Local Food’
-Eat Locally Grown Food All Year
-Rethinking the Front Yard: Cities Make Room For Urban Farms
-Growing a Revolution
-Smaller cities seen leading the way in urban agriculture
-Planting The Seeds For Sustainability
Biochar: the debate goes on – Oct 8
-UK researchers aim to prove farm climate cure
-His dark materials: The man behind Green & Black’s chocolate wants to save the planet – with charcoal
-The Biochar debate
Peak oil, prices, and supplies – Oct 8
-Peak oil before 2020 a ‘significant risk’, say experts
-Era of cheap, easy oil is over, warns study
-UKERC Report Exposes Bankruptcy of Government’s Position on Peak Oil
-Peak Oil: The End Of the Oil Age is Near, Deutsche Bank Says
An invitation from the Mobilization for Climate Justice coalition
This post introduces the U.S.-based Mobilization for Climate Justice, as well as similar critiques and activism associated with this Climate Justice coalition. As I indicate, the organizers in and around that coalition also address a range of energy & carbon issues (including tar sands pollution, and biofuel land grabs) — along with interrelated and more apparent global warming concerns. Their approach to these ecological issues is based on prior environmental justice critiques and activism, as well as wider opposition towards corporations, and other international market structures.
Nations & resources – Oct 7
-UN sees rise in ‘land grab’ for food security
-The Coalfield Uprising
-Jumpin’ Jack Verdi, It’s a Gas, Gas, Gas
Peak Oil and the Necessity of Transitioning to Regenerative Agriculture
As global energy availability begins to decline over the next several decades, energy-intensive industrial methods of food production will have to be transitioned to regenerative practices that 1) sponsor their own energy, 2) build soils and 3) produce in abundance.
