Economics – Dec 3
Krugman: Innovating our way to financial crisis
Jeff Rubin: Corn for ethanol- an inflation crop
Nate Hagens: Global economy under stress
Biofuels
Water: the impending apocalypse
I try to show the effects of fire, floods and drought on those living in impossible circumstances. Poor media coverage makes it difficult to understand the overall enormity of the crisis. (Comprehensive compilation of articles and commentary.)
Biofuels – Nov 28
WSJ: Ethanol craze cools as doubts multiply
Are we backing the wrong fix for global warming?
Corn ethanol and the Great Dust Bowl
Fuel quest may create food crisis
Renewables – Nov 27
Britain to build world’s biggest biomass plant
The magic of wood
Solar energy outlook 2007-2008
Solar stocks start slide
Food & agriculture – Nov 26
Perennial crops: The garden that keeps giving
Localise and go organic to avert post-peak famine – Heinberg
Biofuel and diet sow seeds of farm crunch (Malthus revisited)
Down on the farm with your sleeves rolled up
Some plants you should consider growing
United States – Nov 21
Protection from high gas prices
How $100 oil could help
US facing up to its thirst for oil
Four ways to solve the energy crisis
NY Gov Spitzer on cap-and-trade
Science fiction, thrillers and fairy tales – Nov 19
Bruce Sterling post-peak short story
Brian Aldiss: Our science fiction fate
Rumpeltstiltskin updated
The Shell Game preview
Biofuels – Nov 18
Alcohol can be a gas
Hydrogen brewing gets an electrical boost
Biofuels bonanza facing ‘crash’
Biofuels – Nov 13
In farm belt, ethanol plants hit resistance
Québec backing away from corn ethanol
The human cost of bio-fuels
Biofuel boom on Deconstructing Dinner
Climate – Nov 8
Rush to palm oil and biofuels in Indonesia threatens climate
Climate change a public health issue
CO2 for cooling not so bad
Focus on James Hansen (bio and ideas)
Online James Lovelock talk
Food & fuel – Nov 6
King Corn – ‘delightful documentary’
Monbiot: Western appetite for biofuels is causing starvation
Biofuel boom: greenwashing and crimes against humanity
Food & agriculture – Oct 30
Official UK study: organic really is better
Poor outlook for grain stokes fight over biofuels
Uganda ‘averts tragedy’ with reversal of decision to clear virgin forest for biofuel
