Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
-Health: the challenge of improving nutrition
-Small family farms in tropics can feed the hungry and preserve biodiversity
-Jonathan Safran Foer: the truth about fish farming
-Scientists unite to combat water scarcity; solutions yield more crop per drop in drylands
-Potatoes, Not Just Pistons, Take Root in Detroit
-She Farms
-New Investments in Agriculture Likely to Fail Without Sharp Focus on Small-Scale ‘Mixed’ Farmer
-Feinstein’s Water Bomb
-School districts ax teachers, blame state for financial meltdown
-No money? No library certification in Hull
-Recession Tightens Grip on State Tax Revenues
-American Blitzkrieg: loving the German war machine to death
-This isn’t Falklands II
-Yemen’s water crisis eclipses al Qaeda threat
-How Wrong Is the IPCC?
-Bill Gates: the Most Important Climate Speech of the Year
-Team Finds Subtropical Waters Flushing Through Greenland Fjord
-Oil firms drop group lobbying for US climate bill
-War at Home: The Local Eco-Warriors Making a Big Noise
-Brock Dolman on water: “Basins of relations: reverential rehydration revolution”
-Pathways to Re-Localisation with Joel Salatin
-Die Transition Towns-Bewegung – Städte und Menschen im Wandel
-Environmentalists launch low-carbon ‘churches in transition’
-Could chicken manure help curb climate change?
One way of looking at our current set of predicaments is that we’ve been on a binge, consuming energy considerably faster than it can be captured and stored by Earth’s ecosystems. While fossil fuels once appeared limitless (and still do to deniers of peak oil), and though we’re literally bathed in energy (in the form of sunlight), the disappearance of the fossil-fuel storehouse accumulated over millions of years isn’t something that can be replaced with anything nearly as convenient as fossil fuels.
It is widely acknowledged that greenhouse gas emission-fueled climate change is having a profound and negative impact on fresh water systems around the world. … What is less understood is that our collective abuse and displacement of fresh water is also a serious cause of climate change and global warming.
Frankly, when I first learned about peak oil, I was a bit freaked out. But after time, a little too much wine, a lot of research, and some productive action, I recovered, and went on to slowly change my attitude, expectations, and lifestyle to accommodate a radically different reality from the one I previously knew.
-Past Peak Oil Travelling towards Transition
-Why Transition? Creating a Brighter Future
-The Future of our Food Supply
-‘Peak water’ could flush civilisation
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A weekdly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-Record Asian demand
-The Alberta oil sands
-Quote of the week
-Briefs
The American West at Risk’s 13 chapters examine some of the major human-caused environmental problems now threatening the 11 contiguous Western states…Citing trustworthy, peer-reviewed studies in support of its arguments, and written by three trained scientists, this book has every claim for credibility—and is an enlightening and gripping read for scientists and laypeople alike.
-Interview with BP’s chairman of the board Carl-Henric Svanberg
-In New Gas Wells, More Drilling Chemicals Remain Underground
-Low-Carbon Recovery
-Is the United Kingdom facing a natural gas shortage?
-National Grid appeals for more gas as imports fail to arrive
-Saudi craving for oil comes at a price
-Iraq Could Delay Peak Oil a Decade
