Transport – Feb 20
Stuart Staniford: Four billion cars in 2050?
Hydrogen-fuelled autos – no silver bullet
Ryanair: Oil prices could slash profits 50%
Renewable Energy
Biofuels – Feb 18
Better biofuels before more biofuels
RFA’s Bob Dinneen on viability of biofuels
Food & agriculture – Feb 18
Britain runs out of pasta as costs soar
“Food miles”- don’t forget land use policies
Soy displaces cattle as main farm activity in Argentina
Renewables – Feb 18
Britain is third worst in EU for use of renewable energy
Greenpeace: All about EfficienCity
Eliminating fossil fuels is friggin’ cheap
Walking: new source of energy
Food & agriculture – Feb 16
Michael Pollan: The omnivore’s next dilemma
Energy Farms – blogging from the epicenter of relocalization
AI (Agricultural Intelligence)
Obesity – key driver for food localization?
Two reports at odds on biotech crops
Improving our green job prospects
No one has all the answers to the problems of energy, climate and the economy, but there is one answer that everyone with any sense embraces as a necessary first step toward a permanent solution: we must create green jobs in the renewable energy and energy efficiency industries. However our prospects for a green jobs program in 2008 do not look good.
Hard times – Feb 15
Heat or eat – an expanding crisis
The growing battle for the right to water
UN says soaring prices leave poor hungry
Cooking gas crisis hitting India’s poor hard
DoD energy strategy: “More fight – less fuel”
A US Department of Defense energy strategy mentions peak oil, but doesn’t go into details.
Biofuels and the fertilizer problem
If we transition to cellulosic ethanol — which utilizes whole plants, not just the seeds, as in conventional ethanol — we’ll need even more phosphorus. And demand for this finite resource, located mainly in geopolitically troublesome places, will grower at an even faster clip than the current 2.3 percent compounded annual rate.
A death in the family
A tragedy, like the dead chickadee in the photo, seems small compared to what is happening in the calamitous world we live in now, but not to me.
Climate – Feb 13
Lake Mead could dry up by 2021
UK report: Climate change could kill thousands
Michael Klare: climate as security issue
GM chief urges dealers to oppose states’ greenhouse gas limits
Stopping deforestration better than biofuels
Tiny nations seek climate help at UN
Food & agriculture – Feb 13
California’s corn production skyrockets
Insect explosion ‘a threat to food crops’
Global demand lifts grain prices, gobbles supplies
Farmers and carbon offsets
