United States – Jan 16
Americans cut back sharply on spending
Saudis balk at Bush’s oil advice
James Woolsey’s satire on why oil is so pricey
Biofuels
Statement on biofuel sustainability
A systems approach is crucial to assess the energy yield, carbon neutrality, and the full impact of biofuel production on downstream and downwind ecosystems.
Biofuels – Jan 10
Ecological Society of America on biofuels
Brazil and the human cost of ethanol
Ethanol’s Minnesota roots
Modelling biofuel production as an infectious growth on food production.
I’m coming to the view that biofuel growth is by far the greatest near-term challenge arising from the plateauing of global oil supply that we have experienced over the last two years.
Renewables – Jan 4
Wafer-thin solar cells brings green power closer
New energy uses for asphalt
Shell, Biopetroleum to build algae plant
Europe’s biodiesel drive sputters
Burning biofuels may be worse than coal and oil, say experts
Biofuels – Dec 20
Converting chicken fat into biodiesel
Trouble brewing (beer hit by biofuels)
Plant cover in Haiti at 2 percent
The price of biofuels
Biofuels – Dec 19
Rep. Bartlett votes against ethanol mandate
As ethanol takes its first steps, Congress proposes a giant leap
Food and fuel compete for land
MIT: The price of biofuels
US corn boom threatens sea life
Peak soil + peak oil = peak spoils
Food & agriculture – Dec 18
Michael Pollan: Our decrepit food factories
Worrisome forecast for the world’s crops
Astyk: The price of things: a future agriculture
Newsweek: Food vs. fuel
How much food can I grow around my house?
Future of food in the Kootenays (conference)
Peak oil – Dec 8
Did an oil-company CEO just endorse peak-oil?
Satellite images contradict Saudi peak oil theory : Bernstein Research
Peak oil reading group
Expect to be buffeted by oil price uncertainty
Nate Hagens: Fantasies for replacing fossil fuels
Panelists discuss climate changes, peak oil: ‘Kill your lawn’
Peak oil and global warming inextricably linked
Food & agriculture – Dec 8
Economist on food: Cheap no more
Food prices climbing, with no end in sight
The garden of the future? (Forest gardens)
New film Tableland documents sustainable farming
Food Summit asks: What’ll we do when the oil runs out?
Diesel prices pick farmers’ wallets
Biofuels – Dec 4
Drive for ‘green’ palm oil adds to CO2 fears
Indonesia to wean off oil, but biofuel use limited
Sri Lankan ceramic firms mull firewood as alternative energy source
Renewables – Dec 3
Implications of biofuel production for US water supplies
How Africa’s desert sun can bring Europe power
Micro-wind turbines often increase CO2
