Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
NY Times: Fuel choices, food crises and finger-pointing
EU defends biofuel goals amid food crises – not ‘a crime against humanity’
UN body urges agriculture reforms to stave off food crisis
One less burger, one safer planet
Global hot spots of hunger set to explode
Spain’s gain from wind power is plain to see
Solar and wind powered by tax breaks
Biogas fuelling the Olympic torch?
Homer-Dixon: future of travel and conferences
Oil, environment, lifestyle fuel Asia’s two-wheeler boom
Kunstler on Flagstaff and hydrogen cars
Contraction & Convergence proposed in Australian Senate
‘Dammed if we do’ – Traveston dam
Coal to liquids in Australia
Food vs fuel
The energy scene in India
Renewable energy not always sustainable (Latin America)
Iceland has power to burn
Renewable energy jobs soar in Germany
NYT editorial: The world food crisis
Starving Haitians riot as food prices soar
We’ll reap what we sow (US farm bill)
As prices rise, farmers spurn conservation program
The lost decade – pessimism about oil technology
The natural gas storage cycle
Platts: Depletion of oil reserves outpaces new production
Biofuels lifecycle assessment,
Recyclers suffer from clutter
Are you a cloth bag snob?
Living off the fat of the land: grease theft
Cheap solar panels and dodgy installations
While waiting for the price of gasoline to get so high that we can’t afford to drive anymore, there is still some time to ponder just how the great paradigm shift of the 21st century is going to work out.
Solar thermal power – Big Gav’s info round-up
Put oil companies to work on geothermal
Businesses to spend $600 billion on ‘green accounting’
Guardian: An unsustainable scam
Norway forests to double bioenergy output
Specially-designed soils could help combat climate change
World Bank climate profiteering
Discussions of net energy often miss the energy costs of distributing energy and putting it to its end use. These systems costs pose a major challenge to some proposed alternative energy sources, but they also offer support for an old but neglected response to today’s energy predicament.
