Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Prices for 16 basic food items shoot up (farmer’s share down)
Green solution just outside your door
Warming Andes stymies Peruvian potato farmers
Prince Charles targets GM crop giants in fiercest attack yet
World needs to rethink biofuels – U.N. food agency
Duke Energy’s New Solar Concept Has Potential to Supercharge Solar & Smart Grid Companies
Physicists release report pushing for greater efficiency in transportation and building sectors (video and transcript)
Ethanol Makers Hit by Cash Crunch, Corn Prices
Berkeley council to vote on solar tax district
Phase out coal and burn trees instead, urges climatologist Hansen
Hung over from the ethanol party
Europe lowers goals for biofuel use
e360: The corn ethanol juggernaut
Kickapoo Nation sets sights on energy independence
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Cellulosic ethanol was a perfect fit for the Chesapeake’s watershed which has lots of forests and underutilized agricultural land, and is not particularly good corn country. A massive move towards growing and using cellulosic ethanol has the potential to help clean up the Bay and the air as well as powering our cars and providing a new source of economic growth for the region.
Brown vows freedom from oil dictatorship
How food waste can power your home
When the wind doesn’t blow
Environment Minister Sammy Wilson: climate change views are “hysterical psuedo-religion”
The Internet writings of John Michael Greer—beyond any doubt the greatest peak oil historian in the English language—have finally made their way into print. Greer’s searingly perceptive blog entries on peak oil, which for the past several years have enjoyed a robust online following, have now been incorporated into a single bound volume from New Society Publishers titled The Long Descent.
Wind energy bumps into power grid’s limits
Biodiesel boom spurs theft of nasty, used Fry-o-lator grease
Energy price prediction `more difficult,’ EIA’s Caruso says
Bioplastic – better living through green chemistry?
Could $100 oil turn dumps into plastic mines?brScrapping fuel subsidies can help climate: U.N. study
New rays of hope for solar power’s future
Will US solar businesses weather the coming storm?
Gail the Actuary: Biofuel conference call including a new biodiesel from algae
The Dean of Dung is Back – and Full of Gas!
Bloomberg offers windmill power plan
New York Mayor sees conservation as main path to energy savings
Golden image of corn-based ethanol shows some erosion
If we were willing – and in some cases able – to pay more for food, then some serious problems with our food system might be solved. The trouble is that along the path towards a better, more sustainable farming and energy system, there will be many casualties
