Lomborg, Climate Change and Energy Descent.
Bjorn Lomborg is Environmentalist Baiter Supreme, the one guy with some letters after his name who is wheeled out in the media to represent the scientific face of climate denial.
Food & Water
Biofuels – July 7
Tapping the latent power in what’s left around the barnyard / Shell says biofuels from food crops “morally inappropriate” / Malawi: turning the future into charcoal / Malaysia weighs palm oil share for food, energy
Solutions & sustainability – July 7
Masanobu Fukuoka – natural farming /
Jamie’s School Dinners – 10 Insights for Energy Descent /
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System /
Feel lonely? You’re not alone
Environment – July 5
Farming must change to aid environment / Finnish EU Presidency wants ‘new generation’ of environmental policy / 12% of bird species to be in peril by 2100 / Buried greenhouse gases may escape: scientists /
Journalist Ross Gelbspan on global warming
Solutions & sustainability – July 4
Fuel economy tips / Presentations from New Urbanism conference (including Kunstler & Darley) /
Ranchers and farmers find a silver lining in the conservation cloud / Author finds sprawl isn’t the be-all and end-all / USDA ID-tag plan for farm animals has some small-scale farmers unhappy
Environment – June 30
America’s air-conditioned nightmare /
50 years driving in the wrong direction: the U.S. Interstate Highway System / World weighs in on global warming / Al Gore 3.0 / U.S. emits half of car-caused greenhouse gas / Global warming may not lead to greater crop yields
Solutions & sustainability – June 28
Let wind farms pay to help endangered species they hurt /
Blagging in the blogosphere /
Mauritius: Recycling of All Resources for Sustainability /
How to be Fuel and Food Rich under Climate Change
CPULs – Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes – Andre Viljoen (2006)
Great book, terrible title. Andre Viljoen has put together a book of the most profound importance at this point in history. How will we feed our cities beyond the age of cheap oil?
Solutions & sustainability – June 25
Neighbourhood green spaces turned into affordable ‘edible’ landscapes / Greenpeace launch new film on decentralised energy / Bryant Terry, food-justice activist, answers readers’ questions /
“EcoCities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature” – new edition / “Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times” – new book
A realtor’s view from Hubbert’s Peak
How will peak oil play out in real estate? … Shortly before Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit our Gulf and southeast coasts last August, we reached, I feel, a peak in real estate values that we will probably not see again in our lifetimes.
Solutions & sustainability – Jun 22
New internet audio archive on sustainable agriculture /
Gardeners can slow climate change /
UK course: Life After Oil: Breaking the Habit /
Why Europe needs regional currencies /
Meg Wheatley on how to communicate Peak Oil
Fun while it lasted
Living in expectation of this civilization’s collapse, which I do, can be isolating. It’s like having historical-epochal halitosis. You don’t get invited back to dinner parties after trying to engage people on the topic of our imminent decline and fall.