Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Fatih Birol talks the talk on peak oil – In this 40 minute exclusive interview for my film “PetroApocalypse Now?” I interviewed Fatih Birol, Chief Economist of the IEA about reserves, the USGS, technology, demand and recession, solutions and peak oil. (Also, a mini-review of the film)
Kelp-fuel cars on the horizon in Scotland
Eating Isn’t Option When Minnesota Corn Burns in Houston Cars
Lucrative palm oil crop putting red apes in danger
Barack Obama declared Wednesday his pick for Department of Agriculture chief, former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack. … Great. Rather than an advocate for a new, more sustainable, just, and healthy food system, we got someone who’s going to focus on burning food in car engines.
Climate change experts ‘lose faith’ in renewable technology
Solar’s future doesn’t look quite so sunny
Floating Offshore Wind Power
Indonesia: New energy scheme not a load of bull
Sweet Answer to a Fuel Problem
Carbon: The Biochar Solution
Going hungry in the 21st century
Seawater holds key to future food
The hidden cost of our growing taste for meat
Plan for tax on cow gas stinks, US farmers say
After an oil peak, pressure will increase to cut trees to serve as fuel for heating and cooking fires, as well as to clear land for agriculture. Many other countries who have faced this pressure have become bleak places prone to soil erosion, mudslides, dust storms and finally, desertification.
NYT: A world of a different color (horsepower)
Headlights burn more fuel?
The end of the road for hydrogen?
Edible playgrounds and political vegetables
Getting to know your local farmer
Ben Gisin of Touch the Soil magazine
Biofuels push Ethiopian farmers to food aid
Acid soils in Slovakia tell somber tale
Could a hyperactive hamster power your house?
Problems Plague U.S. Flex-Fuel Fleet
Fuel from food? The feast is over
Solar towers will harness sunshine of southern Spain
“Fuel”: A persuasive argument for kicking our addiction to oil
Using Energy Like Pigs
Brazil’s biofuel industry dries up
U.S. intel office adds warming to warnings
Director of National Intelligence: Conflicts over resources (PDF)
Germany’s Courting of Oil-Rich Turkmenistan Prompts Criticism
Europe joins international contest for Arctic’s resources
Right to eat comes before fuel, Swiss minister says
South Korean company takes over part of Madagascar to grow biofuels
Cutting Emissions in Rural China
