I feed me
The peak in global oil production will necessitate a relocaliztion concerning the things we need and use. It doesn’t get more local than your backyard so just how can you produce more of what you need at your very own home?
Food & Water
Other energy – Mar 30
Big Oil’s big windfall (inadvertent subsidies) /
Pentagon seminars seek solutions to U.S. oil ‘addiction’ /
Biotech crops will hurt family farmers and deepen the energy crisis /
Agriculture interests push ambitious renewable-energy goal /
Daylight Savings – A drop in the Oil Drum? /
New fuel economy rules issued to auto industry
The oil in your oatmeal – A lot of fossil fuel goes into producing, packaging and shipping our breakfast
Before I put spoon to cereal, what if I consider this bowl of oatmeal porridge (to which I’ve just added a little butter, milk and a shake of salt) from a different perspective. Say, a Saudi Arabian one.
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 28
Michael Pollan: The modern hunter-gatherer /
California makes itself the most efficient place in North America /
Home builders turning green /
Farm goes for economic, ecological diversity /
US, African scientists seek biotech answer to hunger (sorghum)
Making us “future-proof” – the evolving role of horticulture
How horticulture and related fields (such as urban forestry) might evolve to assist the transition to an economy without cheap oil.
Top 10 US cities best prepared for an oil crisis
If the price of oil shot to $100 a barrel tomorrow, which American cities would be able to survive economically?
My Saudi Arabian breakfast
What I eat for breakfast connects me to the planet, deep into its past with the fossilized remains of plants and animals which are now fuel, as well as into its future, when these non-renewable resources will likely be in scant supply.
Environment – Mar 23
UN warns of worst mass extinctions for 65m years /
Study says U.S. companies lag on global warming /
Seattle cools down global warming /
New USGS report on managing water in the western U.S. /
Farms ‘big threat’ to fresh water /
In a thirsty world, Canada comes up empty /
Governments ‘must meet water need’
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 23
Can a bush solve rural energy needs? /
The role of underutilized plants in preventative medicine, nutrition and sustainability /
Classes: prepare for peak oil /
Green blogs: The Green revolution moves online /
The dark secrets of the organic-food movement /
Green is green ($) /
Statue of Liberty to go all ‘green’ power
At home in Ecocity: tear up parking lots, uncover creeks
To hear urban visionary Richard Register tell it, the city of the future will look more like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon than like the crime-ridden, blighted expanse often referred to as the inner-city.
Peak oil – Mar 22
Interview: Former GOP Strategist Kevin Phillips (“American Theocracy”) /
CNN’s “We Were Warned”: the bright side /
Jitters about energy, debt and the housing market /
Anarchism and the peak oil argument /
Food, sustainability, and the environmentalists /
Investments based on peak oil? – yes
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 21
Post-peak: The change starts with us (energy literacy) /
Latest CSIRO newsletter focuses on personal actions /
In memory of Carla Emery (“The Encyclopedia of Country Living”) /
Brooks once a center of wind power industry /
Why lawns?