Urban design & transport – May 16
Heinberg: Saying goodbye to air travel
Peak-oil spike reshapes the suburbs
Bicycles pedaling into the spotlight
Calculating commuting costs on Vancouver Island
Ready For anything (but reality)
Staff
Climate – May 16
World’s wildlife and environment already hit by climate change
Greenhouse gases highest for 800,000 years
Basalt – a climate change solution?
Climate-change litigation is heating up
Food & agriculture – May 16
Myanmar farmers may miss harvest
‘The Saudi Arabia of fertilizer’
What Michael Pollan hasn’t told you about food
Walden Bello: Manufacturing a food crisis
Prices – May 16
Chavez says U.S. attack would cause $500 oil
Don’t hope for prices to drop, says API economist
Libertarian: Why oil prices will fall again
Who really controls the oil market? Not Saudis or OPEC, says Arab News
Naimi blames oil price on financial turmoil
Shell: Crude shortfalls will boost renewables
Energy industry – May 16
Strange bedfellows unite to pressure oil giants
In Colorado, an unlikely alliance against drilling
Norway: Just like building the alaska pipeline – underwater
Peak oil – May 16
Heinberg: Oil and politics
National Geographic: World oil demand surging as supplies approach limits
19th century whaling as a model for oil depletion
More geological analysis of potential Saudi depletion
Homer-Dixon on PO and climate
California steaming – May 16
L.A. prepares massive water-conservation plan
Los Angeles eyes sewage as a source of water
S. California faces summer power challenge
ODAC newsletter – May 16
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Deep thought – May 16
A leftist critique of Transition Towns – review by Rob Hopkins
Malthus, the false prophet
Are there just too many people in the world?
Food & agriculture – May 15
U.S. using food crisis to boost bio-engineered crops
Indians bristle at U.S. criticism on food prices
Jump in food prices biggest in 18 years
Horses abandoned in West as feed prices rise
More signs of trouble for corn crop
Rodale urges expansion of organic farming
The food system – May 15
New Yorker: Is the world’s food system collapsing?
In search of a better revolution (than the Green Revolution)
Raj Patel’s Starved
Fewer poor people, more volatility in food prices?
Deep thought – May 15
Kunstler and Orlov interview
Climate change and public health
Sharon Astyk: Problems and principles of energy descent
David Korten: Navigating the Great Turning from empire to earth community
Clay Shirky on deploying the cognitive surplus for the public good
