Renewables – May 13
Sleeping giant Brazil awakes (biofuels)
UK palm oil consumption fuels Colombia violence
Report says wind can produce a fifth of US electricity needs by 2030
Food
Fertilizers – May 12
Nitrogen fix – nature’s way to make fertilizer
Australian Compost Week (half a billion dollars of compost)
No relief in sight for high fertilizer prices
PotashCorp quotes Borlaug: ‘without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.’
Food & agriculture – May 12
India’s Green Revolutionary Swaminathan favors conservation farming and green technology
Britain’s food crisis
China and India alter food equation
World’s oceans running out of fish
Renewables – May 12
Scientist Ramanathan: Solar-cookers could cut pollution
Rockefellers get more muscle in fight to make Exxon focus on renewables
Vinod Khosla (biofuels interview)
What organic homesteading is all about
The beauty of the organic homestead is that “work” is self-willed, not commanded from on high or dictated by economic necessity. “Work” becomes creative, individualistic, done out of love, not someone else’s sense of duty.
Futures – May 11
A green industrial revolution?
Videos: Cuba’s green revolution
Biofuels and the rise of nationalistic environmentalism
ODAC Newsletter
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Biofuels – May 10
Bio-debatable: Food vs. fuel (good graphic)
Go easy on biofuels until more clarity – World Bank
Ralph Nader: Fueling food shortages
Food & agriculture – May 10
Dharma in the dirt
Global food crisis
How potatoes could save the world
Food security expert: broken food system
Food fears (Vancouver)
Community solutions – May 10
Many hands make light work of saving energy
Community gardens grow communities
Biodegradable home products, ready to rot
Building an ecologically sensible home
Food & agriculture – May 9
A taste of wines to come with climate change (Chateau China?)
Britons wasting £10bn worth of food a year
Oxfam’s Kripke on biofuels, food prices
Food – behind the scenes – May 9
Rob Hopkins: The wonder of the worm
How to make fertilizer out of thin air
Protein possibility for post-peak: the meat beast
