On the edge – June 7
Cyclone Gonu: TOD post-mortem
OPEC: Drive on biofuels risks oil price surge
The Iraqi war against labor
Thomas Friedman: Our green bubble
Renewable Energy
Renewables – June 6
Thomas Edison – wind pioneer
Two years of record growth in wind – just the beginning?
Wind power: some lessons from 2006
Mali: Jatropha oil lights up villages
Corn-based ethanol: Is this a solution?
Analysis of corn-based ethanol, with some surprising answers.
Biofuels – June 5
Biofuel gangs kill for green profits
Indonesia Won’t let oil palm growers cut forests
First food prices climb, now, beer?
Ethanol boom won’t threaten food supply [sic]: analysts
Guardian: Biofuels and food prices not funny for poor
Biofuels – June 2
Will milk become America’s new oil?
As pork prices soar, Chinese put brakes on corn for ethanol
Cargill chief warning on biofuels boom
Biofuels – May 30
Ancient plant has potential as biofuel (camelina)
Rapier: The mythical ethanol threat
South Africa: Biofuel making staple food more expensive
Mexico: Ethanol plan meets resistance
Ethanol boom may fuel shortage of tequila
Renewables – May 30
Who owns the wind?
PV costs to decrease 40% by 2010
Spain’s new renewable energy rules
Peak oil – May 30
CNN special: We were warned: Out of oil
ODAC News
Sharon Astyk: Feels like I’m dying
peak oil in 600 words or less
Strange – May 30
Eating radiation: A new form of energy? (MIT)
Florida man invents machine to turn water into fire
Preparing for Powerdown
This isnt just an oil peak- it is an all-time energy peak for humanity. Solutions are to be found by creating small-scale, local communities, and each community needs to work towards self-reliance in food, energy and essential trades and services.
Food & agriculture – May 28
Building a strong local food system via the 100 mile diet challenge
Astyk: reduce energy consumption- eat seasonally
BC conference: Changing ecologies of food and agriculture
Germany: Biofuel boom jacks up price of beer
Biofuels – May 27
Uganda scraps plan to cut rainforest for palm oil
Brazil to improve working conditions for cane cutters in biofuel industry
Castro on problems of biofuels
EU will demand sustainable biofuel production
Toyota Launches Biofuel-compatible Vehicles in Brazil
