Food & agriculture – Jan 28
Farmers, plan ahead to avoid fertilizer shortages
Rethinking the meat-guzzler
A dying breed (animal breeds)
Astyk: How big is a farm? Who is a farmer?
Cuban permaculturalist to tour Australia
Resource Depletion
Cornucopians and their magical thinking
Magical thinking can often lift our spirits and make us think anything is possible, that is, until reality intrudes and leads to painful and sometimes catastrophic results.
Peak oil – Jan 24
Candid piece on PO from Bloomberg: “Prius designer says industry must lose oil addiction”
Energy: Centre of power is on the move
The universal mining nachine
Oil pimping: Kunstler interview
Cellulosic ethanol to power fertilizer demand
Australian grain farmer: “Cellulosic ethanol will stretch fertilizer resources and drive farmers even further away from sustainability.”
Using it up – Jan 16
Chinese and US demand drives commodities surge
Drain on the Mediterranean: rising water usage
Europe’s appetite for seafood propels illegal trade
Goodbye helium, goodbye brainscans
Peak fun (and the inevitable hangover)
When you are at the peak of the biggest party ever thrown in history, the fossil-fuel party, who worries about the hangover?
Wanted: a new global paradigm
The destructive search for military control amid acute environmental constraint highlights the prescience of pioneering work on global sustainability. (The Club of Rome and The Limits to Growth )
Warning: The mining boom is fading fast
An Australian environmental engineer has warned in a new report that mineral resources are running out, excavation costs are escalating and the environmental costs of mining are devastating.
The age of salvage societies
The Archdruid Report‘s exploration of possible societies of the deindustrial future moves from the scarcity industrialism of the near future to the salvage societies further out, when the natural resources that power industrialism have been exhausted but the embodied energy in the material legacies of the industrial world become a major resource.
Farming faces phosphate shortfall
Global reserves of phosphorous, essential for agriculture, could run out in 60 to 100 years, warn experts. [According to a related paper, phosphorous has already passed its peak of production.]
Peak oil – Oct 17
Juan Cole: Oil peak or peak oil?
New Scientist reviews Crude Awakening
Oilwatch Monthly – October 2007
World energy and population: trends to 2100
Earth’s natural wealth: an audit
ODAC News
Peak oil – Oct 15
Peak minerals
New presentations by Matt Simmons
Heinberg: Upside to rising price of the black stuff
New doomer cult classic What a Way to Go
Peak oil and global warming: most serious threats to Progressive ideals
Will ‘ASPO Effect’ send oil prices higher?
Energy and environment round-up
ODAC News