United Kingdom – Feb 20
Scottish greenwash: Dirty claims on clean coal
Is it selfish to have more than two children?
Dumped in Africa: Britain’s toxic waste
Waste
Food & agriculture – Feb 19
Peak oil and food security talk by Patrick Holden of UK Soil Assn
Hamburgers are the Hummers of food in global warming: scientists
How African Farmers are Dealing with Climate Change
U.N. says food production may fall 25 percent by 2050
Massive effort underway to save endangered seeds
Fresh ideas for waste food
Food & agriculture – Feb 13
Our culture of wasting food will one day leave us hungry
Catastrophic Fall in 2009 Global Food Production
The Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 10
The 100-mile diet
It’s Just Garbage
Tour that rocked the renewable energy world in Florida
ODAC Newsletter – 30 Jan
A weekly round-up from a UK perspective.
Renewables & efficiency – Jan 30
Oslo to run buses powered by biomethane from human sewage
ITER: Flagship fusion reactor could cost twice as much as budgeted
Renewable energy in New Zealand (video)
Biofuels – Jan 27
Sainsbury’s to send unsold food to UK biomass plant
The High Price of Clean, Cheap Ethanol
Trees, Grass May Produce Ethanol Without Poisoning Gulf
ODAC Newsletter – 16 Jan
A weekly update from a UK perspective
Waste & recycling Jan 16
The future of dog poo
From east to west, a chain collapses
Recycled waste could end up in landfill sites, warns watchdog
Review: Not One Drop by Riki Ott
Riki Ott’s book Not One Drop is a history of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, told from the perspective of those most affected by it. Cutting through the cloak of willful deception, public relations campaigns and skewed, corporate-sponsored science, it finally exposes the truth about Exxon Valdez‘s devastating effects on the city of Cordova, Alaska, the fishing community where the spill struck.
Garbage, garbage, garbage – Jan 4
Guardian: UK’s mixed record on rubbish
One woman’s trash is another woman’s … lingerie?
Paradise lost on Maldives’ rubbish island
Economics – Dec 1
Gail Tverberg: Impact of credit crisis on the energy industry
How our ecomomy went kaput on the $100 barrel
Seattle’s recycling program runs into plunging prices