Biofuels – Sept 20
NY Times: The high costs of ethanol
The myths of biofuels (new video)
OECD report: the high costs of biofuels
Swiss report on biofuels
Renewable Energy
Engdahl and peak oil
Author and economist F. William Engdahl has just made a surprising turnabout on peak oil. He now supports the idea of the abiotic origin of petroleum. (Excerpts from interviews and past articles.)
Renewables – Sept 17
California’s renewable energy future
Utility will use batteries to store wind power
Cape Wind commentary: spitting into the wind
Jeremy Leggett: Solar technology and alternatives ready to replace fossil fuels
Bubble energy? (limits of renewables)
State-level initiative to expand clean energy
Food & agriculture – Sept 17
Can’t we all just … be vegans?
Return of GM in UK: climate concerns may reduce backlash
Fuel shortages may hurt corn harvesting
Make or break time for Australian harvest
Biofuels – Sept 16
Toxic jatropha not magic biofuel crop
The biofuel backlash
Farmers tout alfalfa as fuel
Exploring options, spotlight on “Earthwise”
Interview with Lisa McCrory and Carl Russell in rural Vermont who teach a variety of skills for sustainable living, including the use of draft animals in raising organic crops.
The innovation fallacy
Many people in the peak oil movement cling to the hope that technological innovation can make up for the end of the age of cheap abundant oil. Is this hope as plausible as it seems?
Biofuels – Sept 11
OECD warns against biofuels subsidies
Mali’s farmers discover a weed’s potential power
Cultivating a crop of hope (switchgrass)
Brazil: ethanol divides agribusiness
Review: Renewable energy cannot sustain a consumer society
Renewable sources of energy cannot come anywhere near to replacing fossil fuels in sufficient quantity to keep running the current globalised, capitalist industrial economy, according to Ted Trainer’s new book.
Low grain harvest, rising food prices and China’s ethanol plan
China is a case study in which rising food prices and natural disasters influence biofuel production, especially ethanol, leading to new regulations for gasoline exports.
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 6
Place matters (the joy of walkability)
Transition Town Maidenhead in the news
To teens in the first decade of the 21st century
Restoring native landscapes – from a dump to a park (+ jatropha)
Biofuels – Sept 6
Orangutans squeezed by biofuel boom
Are switchgrass’ days numbered?
Inside scoop from a biodiesel pioneer
Ethanol from poplar trees – how much land would it take to fuel our cars?
Biodiesel demand grows across continents
