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
Renewable Energy
Biofuels – Feb 13
A really bad day for biofuels
Robert Rapier: The politics of biofuels
Biofuels leading to rights abuses: report
Dark side of a hot biofuel (palm oil)
Ethanol’s effects bother boaters
Resources undervalued, biofuels overrated
What you may have suspected for years is true: Natural resources are consistently undervalued (Report from a recent conference of systems ecologists on emergy research)
Deep thought – Feb 7
Hooked on growth: our misguided quest for prosperity
Rolf Nordstrom discusses depletion scenarios
Feeding people
The big picture: climate chaos (Jamais Cascio)
The organic apocalypse
Renewables – Feb 6
Study: Unlike the ’70s, energy lessons will last
5 myths about Earth-friendly energy
Bush budget cuts renewables, efficiency
Wind farms need techs to keep running
Biofuels – Feb 6
Solution to energy independence is at local level
Record financing for biofuels, not food
Biofuels make little environmental difference
Renewables – Feb 2
A green energy industry takes root in California
Environmental and social justice groups Call for federal agrofuels moratorium
Food & agriculture – Feb 2
Climate ‘could devastate crops’
Australia to investigate fertiliser prices
Mexican farmers protest end of corn-import taxes
Peak oil – Feb 1
Satellite o’er the desert (Saudi oil supply)
IEA refutes ‘peak oil’, points to lack of investment
Minnesota legislators to hear from Simmons
Rifkin: Europe could make the third industrial revolution’
Food & agriculture – Feb 1
The hedge fund manager who bought a farm
National Farmers Union: Realism needed on biofuels
Vibing on vertical farms
Science 1101 – Petroleum and peak oil
A university near where I live plans to add a short unit on “Petroleum and Peak Oil” to their Science 1101 course for freshman who are not science majors. The university asked me to prepare materials for the unit. (Draft)
Peak oil – Jan 28
Peak oil activist in the Wall Street Journal
Shell: Fuel crisis looms by 2015
US petroleum supply, ethanol, and state of the industry
