The end of cheap oil: the consequences
Second part of The Ecologist series on Peak Oil detailing the impacts on food production in the UK. Note that this version is published on the American International Automobile Dealers Assoc. website!!
Food
Food and class
Historically, people of limited means have tended to scrape by on what’s locally available, while the wealthy have used their resources to draw in fancy food from far away. Now, that situation has turned upside down.
Other Energy Headlines – October 12, 2005
The Illusive Bonanza: Oil Shale in Colorado / Green Fuel Revolution a Challenge for Grain Sector / Cleaner coal? IGCC nice, but.. / Clean coal isn’t climate-friendly yet / Nuclear power quietly confident in energy debate / Atlantic coal plant dirtiest, green group says
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 10
Greenpeace report on solar power /
London’s answer for traffic congestion /
Umbra loves bikes /
Pollan high on grass, down on corn /
Down and dirty: soil in industrial society /
Ecolanguage /
Hard cash and climate change /
China looks to California for solutions /
White House picks up conservation mantra /
Energy efficiency in Wyoming /
McMansions out of style? /
Save energy around the house
Environment headlines – 28 Sept, 2005
Who is right about global warming and hurricanes? /
Gulf currents that turn storms into monsters /
UN recommends carbon sequestration /
WorldChanging on sequestration /
Agriculture at center of California pollution debate
Environment headlines – 10 September
Researchers debate whether hurricanes are stronger /
Katrina fuels global warming storm /
Global catastrophes set to increase unless we change NOW /
‘York could be UK’s New Orleans’ /
Global warming called insurance peril /
Ceres on Katrina, insurance, and weather-related risk /
Global warming could hit Indian agriculture /
WWF: The environment matters
A fit of (oil) peak
‘IT’S THE END of the world as we know it, and we feel fine.’ Grist.org editors look on the bright side, and name a reform agenda.
China faces water crisis
Eighty percent of China’s rivers no longer support fish. Most surface waters are polluted and many rivers no longer reach the ocean. The per-capita water availability in northwest China is only one-quarter of the world average and the second lowest on the planet.
Sustainable Willits: unanimous vote for economic localization
A statement calling for sustainable local production of necessary goods and services including food was unanimously endorsed by the city council of Willits, California, the most Peak-Oil-aware city in the USA.
Maverick methods work just fine for both produce and the planet
Say it can’t be done and he’ll do it. So, when maverick farmer Michael Ableman ran a farm in California, he grew tomatoes without a drop of irrigation. “My goal is to be 80 per cent fossil oil-free in the next couple of years,” he declares.
Poor Africans hit hard by rising world oil prices
Africans are struggling to cope with stubbornly high global oil prices which are forcing many to walk long distances to work or schools, go hungry as food prices skyrocket, and depend on candles to light their homes.
Attack of the $3 tomato
How Portland’s snooty tastes are saving Oregon farms, luring kids back to the land and even-gasp!-teaching Republicans and Democrats to get along.