Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Rep. Bartlett votes against ethanol mandate
As ethanol takes its first steps, Congress proposes a giant leap
Food and fuel compete for land
MIT: The price of biofuels
US corn boom threatens sea life
Peak soil + peak oil = peak spoils
Energetic students empower Cal Poly
Peak-proof music
Ted Trainer’s Transition Q&A
You’d better (not) shop around
Bottled water boycotts: Back-to-the-tap movement
Michael Pollan: Our decrepit food factories
Worrisome forecast for the world’s crops
Astyk: The price of things: a future agriculture
Newsweek: Food vs. fuel
How much food can I grow around my house?
Future of food in the Kootenays (conference)
WSJ: A young tinkerer builds a windmill, electrifying a nation
CERA co-founder points to opportunities in green efforts
Airborne wind turbines
Big Oil lets sun set on renewables
Proponents of the House-passed energy bill have called it a “down payment” on a climate change strategy. But that “down payment” is now in jeopardy.
Did an oil-company CEO just endorse peak-oil?
Satellite images contradict Saudi peak oil theory : Bernstein Research
Peak oil reading group
Expect to be buffeted by oil price uncertainty
Nate Hagens: Fantasies for replacing fossil fuels
Panelists discuss climate changes, peak oil: ‘Kill your lawn’
Peak oil and global warming inextricably linked
Economist on food: Cheap no more
Food prices climbing, with no end in sight
The garden of the future? (Forest gardens)
New film Tableland documents sustainable farming
Food Summit asks: What’ll we do when the oil runs out?
Diesel prices pick farmers’ wallets
Drive for ‘green’ palm oil adds to CO2 fears
Indonesia to wean off oil, but biofuel use limited
Sri Lankan ceramic firms mull firewood as alternative energy source
China releases draft energy law
Italians warned of looming energy shortfall
Vietnam to stop subsidizing oil in 2008
Wind power sets sail from crowded Germany
Implications of biofuel production for US water supplies
How Africa’s desert sun can bring Europe power
Micro-wind turbines often increase CO2
Krugman: Innovating our way to financial crisis
Jeff Rubin: Corn for ethanol- an inflation crop
Nate Hagens: Global economy under stress
Denmark prides itself of some small contribution to life after peak oil. The year 2001 brought an end to this, however. But with the November 2007 election, environmental policy has once again been put in forward gear.
