Environment – Apr 22

Global warming threatening Bangladesh’s coast /
Nova on “Dimming the Sun” /
Dust storms and pollution force Beijing to go greener /
Soil scientist: The ground we walk on – it’s part of global warming /
Science magazine: Stand by for a warmer, but not scorching, world

Other energy – Apr 20

More uranium: when and from where? /
Going nuclear: a green makes the case /
Anything into oil (turkey guts, junked car parts, even raw sewage…true!) /
Growing demand for non-food crops /
UK coal producer pushes for price increases of 40% /
Russia to control Armenia’s gas /
Transmaterial, transtudio and seeing the big picture – links

Pollan’s new book on the U.S. food chain – the “oil diet”

The American corn diet is really an oil diet. Corn, as Pollan puts it, “is the SUV of plants. Growing it the way we do requires it to guzzle fuel in the form of fertilizer, about a quarter to a third of a gallon of petroleum for each bushel.” Processing the corn requires even more energy, as does moving those corn-derived products around the country.