Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
-The Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fiction Part III: How (un)reliable are the Red Book Uranium Resource Data?
-Obama Has Fanned the Flames of Nuclear Development
-India plans to cut carbon and fuel poverty with untested nuclear power
-Communist China celebrates 60th anniversary with instruments of war and words of peace
-China vows to crack down on industrial overcapacity
-China, U.S. risk rifts in Middle East: former Chinese envoy
-Nigeria and China’s oil deal still a secret
-Parades and protests mark China’s National Day
The this week was largely on a downward trajectory despite tensions over Iran’s nuclear program, until Wednesday, when the US posted lower than anticipated stockpile figures…
-Will investors show an appetite for local food?
-Can farmland be saved without the farmer?
-USDA grant program benefits farmers market producers
-Grass-finished beef market sees exponential growth
-County to hear local food plan
A midweek roundup of Peak Oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-China moves to curb overcapacity
-US Climate bill
The father of the “green revolution” in agriculture, Norman Borlaug, recently passed away due to cancer, at the age of 95. Borlaug didn’t approve of the “green revolution” moniker, dubbing it “a miserable term” (what he would have made of “The Agrichemical Revolutionary” isn’t clear) but his work has had a far-reaching impact on the course of human development.
-Ecuador, Indians trade blame for bloody clashes
-Greenpeace protesters target Alberta oilsands again
-Nigeria’s oil rebels name mediators
-Democrats unveil ambitious draft climate change bill to the US Senate
-E.P.A. Moves to Curtail Greenhouse Gas Emissions
-Kerry-Boxer: A second chance for progressives
-Population Growth Steady in Recent Years
-Stop blaming the poor. It’s the wally yachters who are burning the planet
-The coming Population Wars: a 12-bomb equation
-Mark Thurstain-Goodwin Responds to Colin Tudge on ‘Can Totnes and District Feed Itself?
-Under the Clinton Global Initiative, Growing Power takes its grassroots-agriculture model to Africa
-Americans turn to backyard chickens for food, security
-Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilisation?
-Critic’s Notebook: From earth to table, in more ways than one
-Ancient glaciers are disappearing faster than ever
-Iraq’s marshes are dying a second death
-“The poor are burdened twice”
-Climate Summit: China Commits, Obama Not So Much
-India could halve emissions growth…but at a price
-Met Office warns of catastrophic global warming in our lifetimes
-America’s Teacher
-The Year of the Flood
-The End of Oil?
-The Constant Economy by Zac Goldsmith
