Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Organic garden takes over San Francisco’s City Hall lawn
NPR misses real story, plants wrong seeds
A solar success on the farm
The curse of Yemen – qat
Alternative trade networks and the coffee system
Feeling the heat of food security
Brazilian agriculture faces huge losses from climate change
“Energy Resources and Our Future” – Speech by Admiral Hyman Rickover in 1957
The future is now: the end of cheap oil
Peak oil, meet peak bandwidth
Although it is not yet palpable or palatable, it is logical and an empirical fact that rising energy prices equally threaten the health sciences. The vast majority of health professionals with whom this author has spoken classify high energy costs as troublesome but temporary, as well as outside the boundary of the health professions. A review of the literature shows virtually no research has been conducted on energy strategy and the health sciences – or the role of petroleum-based products – for three decades.
Local gardeners do their part to record possible ‘global weirding’
Climate-change program to aid poor nations is shut
Environment: Intense rainfall due to global warming could raise flood risk
Bring on the Staycation / Relocalizing fun
She’s ready: Just add water
12 Tips for the sustainability shift
This week on Worldchanging Seattle
The final countdown
Stinging tentacles offer hint of oceans’ decline
The scientific case for modern anthropogenic global warming
Tories deny burying release of climate-change report
– Another tax rebate?
– Net energy: What everyone needs to know
– Oil price falls! Peak oil a non-problem!
What would make a private consultant with a solid, secure income quit his day job to teach people about Peak Oil?
Pat Murphy’s Plan C is a rich treasury of practical suggestions for reducing fossil fuel consumption and fostering community cooperation—while Lyle Estill’s Small is Possible is an engrossing portrait of a small Southern town that is already taking these steps
On July 17th, 2008, Vice President Al Gore challenged the nation to produce 100% of its electricity from renewable sources within 10 years. Post Carbon Institute has responded to Gore’s challenge by putting forward a new plan: “10 Steps in 10 Years for 100 Percent Renewable Power.” The plan shows how we can make Gore’s vision a reality, with a keen understanding of the roles that energy depletion, the vulnerabilities of the supply chain, and the limits of technology all play.
Like my title? Never let it be said I’m not ambitious.
A student in my class asked me for a list of skills we need to get ready for peak oil, prioritized. I admit, it took me about a day after she asked to stop thinking “Holy Crap, how do I figure that all out!” But it is an interesting question. And while it isn’t all just about food preservation, I thought I’d take a shot at it. I will, of course, be relying on my fearless readership to point out gaps in my thinking.
Food rise has Bolivia’s coca farmers planting rice instead of cocaine
The promise and perils of agricultural trade liberalization: Lessons from the Americas
Africa’s last and least – cultural expectations ensure women are hit hardest by burgeoning food crisis
