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
Renewable Energy
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
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
Clean energy redemption?
Reality aside, what could be better than the cleantech boom? Abundant renewable energy, no serious interruptions to shopping, saved from the perils of global warming, life goes on!
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
