Middle East – Jan 16
Angry Iran warns Turkmenistan on gas
Iran Oil ministry ready to weather frost
Iraq: fuel crisis freezes life
Saudi Arabia scraps wheat growing to save water
Food
Food, culture, and sustainability in the gardens of ethnic Americans
A new approach to gardening is highlighted in the book The Earth Knows My Name: “Just as you should never have a monocropped field, so you should never have a monocropped people. If we are going to think about diversity as the key to survival and saving the environment, I really think you can’t have biological diversity succeed without cultural diversity.”
Food & agriculture – Jan 16
Soil Association bans nanomaterials
Death rates and food prices
Making more food with less (biointensive)
Mushrooms to the rescue in SF Bay oil spill
Fiber CSA’s: Do you know where your yarn has been?
Can sustainable agriculture feed the world?
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.
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 15
Slow Money Revolution: the global growth of local currencies
Grow your own way: How to join the allotment in-crowd
Toward a post-oil community
Ted Trainer and Rob Hopkins interview continued
Peak Moment: What Can One Person Do?
Biofuels – Jan 10
Ecological Society of America on biofuels
Brazil and the human cost of ethanol
Ethanol’s Minnesota roots
Wood is more precious than gold
You can’t eat gold like you can the bounty of trees in fruits, nuts, maple syrup, and various edible mushrooms and herbal treasures of the woodland. You can’t warm yourself with gold. You can’t bask in the shade of gold.
Peak oil – Jan 10
Orlov and Kunstler interviewed
Reuters on peak oil
Matthew Simmons: Another nail in the coffin of the case against peak oil
Asia – Jan 10
Paul Krugman: Dealing with the dragon
China to ban plastic bags
Energy subsidies fuel China steel export
A green bulldozer? S. Korea’s new president
India’s $2,500 cars = $200 oil?
South Asia hit by food shortages
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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.
The services we seek
It is only half a discussion to talk about the things we’ll have to give up after peak oil and not about the ways in which we’ll obtain the services those things represent.
Food & agriculture – Jan 4
New Year’s food resolutions
Skinny Bitch in the Kitch
UN to Asia: Grow more food in cities
UK beef producers getting short-changed
Jamie Oliver campaigns for chicken welfare
