Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff House passes massive tax extensions for renewable energy
Bartlett: Congressional delays hobble renewable energy
Environment is secondary to private profits (renewables vs sequestration)
Inter-connected global grid for green energy,
James Hamilton: Reconciling estimates: biofuels and food prices
New trend in biofuels has new risks (invasive weeds)
Biowar I: Why Battles over Food and Fuel Lead to World Hunger (book)
The suburb-eating robot
Intent shapes environment, environment shapes life
Pedicabs a hit in Bellingham
Rob Hopkins on permaculture (interview)
Dmitry Orlov details the Collapse Party platform
Late-breaking developments:
– Prices
– The International Energy Agency
It is going to become increasingly hard to avoid energy headlines in general, as the topic finally becomes, as some of us have predicted for a while, the defining one of our epoch.
As gasoline prices go higher and higher and as the polls show voters more and more concerned about how they are going to fill their tanks, the Congress is starting to stir.
Financial markets had not reflected peak oil in crude oil forward prices. In the past week the long end of the curve has drifted up dramatically.
Can we say that the market at last believes in peak oil? This article suggests a quantitative way to answer the question.
Skewed expectations, for both oil and the economy as a whole, will eventually lead us down the garden path to ruin. … All bogus numbers, whether they come from the EIA or the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are part and parcel of attempts to manage our behavior to keep the growth party going.
The current “boiling frog” price increases (ie, slowly and without a big shock) are unlikely to lead to shortages or rationing in the short term, because that’s not where the problem is – the big problem is with respect to future supplies.
Among the most challenging dimensions of the crisis of industrial civilization is the task of preserving its immense cultural heritage into a future where today’s technologies of communication and information storage will likely no longer be available. The emergence of cultural conservers — individuals who make the preservation of some part of our cultural heritage a personal mission — offers one option for dealing with this challenge.
Brazil threatens to nationalize fertilizer mines
South America’s industrial-ag powerhouse eyes rainforest potash deposits
Forget Saudi peak oil – worry about Saudi peak grain
IMF “cure” for food crisis also a cause
Hunger prompting desperate acts
Where industry once hummed, urban garden finds success
Your friend, the kitchen
High gas prices drive farmer to switch to mules
Gene Logsdon: Garden and small farm skills – hoemanship
