Peak Oil – August 14
Interview with Swiss director of A Crude Awakening
The path from petroleum shortages to electricity shortages
Oil prices have peaked
Staff
Food & agriculture – August 14
Can sustainability save the Midwest?
Everybody eats: The unifying power of food
Charles in GM ‘disaster’ warning
Thurstaston farmer shocked by lack of support for switch to local produce at Church Farm
Soaring fertiliser prices threaten world’s poorest farmers
Climate & environment – August 14
Exports account for one-third of China’s emissions
Amazon rainforest threatened by new wave of oil and gas exploration
Mike Davis: Living on the ice shelf – humanity’s meltdown
Costa Rica bids to go carbon neutral
Italy like Ryanair: can it exist with oil over $ 100 per barrel?
Italy may provide for us an interesting test case economic collapse (although Spain, too, may be in the race). Maybe collapse is too strong a word, but it is clear that things are not going well in Italy.
Peak oil notes – Aug 14
A mid-week update on peak oil, including:
– Prices and consumption
– Demand destruction
Oil and economy on the devil’s seesaw
Big picture shows world in diabolic deep mess. The invisible right hand doesn’t know what the invisible left hand is doing.
Population – August 14
Population Bomb Author’s fix for next extinction: educate women
Peak population
Social Scientists Seek Answer To Exploding Population
Transport – August 14
High-tech hitchhiking
General Motors VP says Australia must end oil dependence
Sweden rolling out 183 MPH high-speed green train
Food & agriculture – August 13
Organic garden takes over San Francisco’s City Hall lawn
NPR misses real story, plants wrong seeds
A solar success on the farm
The curse of Yemen – qat
Alternative trade networks and the coffee system
Feeling the heat of food security
Brazilian agriculture faces huge losses from climate change
Garden Farming: The Best Investment
Those of us who have sought security by producing our own food to eat and to sell locally instead of trying to find salvation in the pretend money that the government is pouring into the banks to save them, should count our blessings. That popping noise I think I hear issuing from the Chicago Board of Trade is the sound of grain bubbles bursting all over the trading floor.
If we all lived sustainably, could we change the world?
The other day Andrew C. Revkin wrote, “Only direct experience seems to trigger change.” By that he meant disasters, deaths, destruction, home loss, looming gas prices, … imminent experiences that make you change your lifestyle right now because you have no other choice. I have no other way of saying this other than that really sucks. Let’s prove him wrong. Let’s change our lifestyles before things get awful. Now.
Idols of the marketplace
Among the most pervasive elements of the conventional wisdom these days is the conviction that any solution to peak oil will have to be found within the market economy as presently structured. It may be high time to revisit this assumption.
