Food & agriculture – Feb 18
Britain runs out of pasta as costs soar
“Food miles”- don’t forget land use policies
Soy displaces cattle as main farm activity in Argentina
Transportation
Peak oil – Feb 15
The Oil Drum: Peak oil, IHS data and the broken clock
IHS: Facts bury theory on peak oil
Tom Whipple on electric cars – can we power them?
PO models forecast China’s oil supply, demand
East-West Center: PO likely in 10-15 years
Motion for peak oil select committee in South Australia
A member of the South Australian Legislative Council made an excellent speech on peak oil on Wednesday and called for the establishment of a select committee “to inquire into and report on the impact of peak oil in South Australia.”
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.
Transport – Feb 13
True scale of C02 emissions from shipping revealed (3 times higher than thought)
Will additives push gasoline higher?
Airlines look for savings as fuel costs rise
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
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 12
10 ways recession can help the environment
Re-Energize Texas summit – if Texas can do it…
The one-tonne-carbon lifestyle
Making conventions environmentally friendly
Don’t let the green grass fool you (Suburbanites awake)
Dave Cohen’s suburban savanna
There may be an instinctual basis for our love of suburbia, one that may be hard to break through even as the cheap oil which has made suburbia possible disappears.
Transport – Feb 10
Aircraft numbers may double by 2026
Planes, trains, automobiles – emissions compared
Ethical funds to drop airlines
Transport & urban design – Feb 7
What communities need to do to survive climate change
Managing traffic in the urban age
Time running out to fix Australia’s transport
Walkable cities
The peak oil crisis: the future of our cars – Part 3
At present it appears that biofuels, natural gas, and electricity are the only alternatives that will be available in large deliverable, quantities in the next ten or 20 years.
United States – Feb 6
Morford: The machine gun of capitalism
Bush recommends 40% cut in Amtrak budget
Kunstler: Serial bubbles?
One anthropologist’s view
