Energy Bulletin -

Water - Nov 6

kristinsponsler — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:11:44 -0800

-Scientists Reveals Secrets Of Drought Resistance
-Speaker says water limitations not recognized
-A Drought-Stricken Land Offers Help With Water
-A Victory for the 'Water Underground'
-EROWI - energy return of water invested

Renewables & efficiency - Nov 6

kristinsponsler — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:32:50 -0800

-A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables
-Farms going green to save and survive
-Solar power from Sahara a step closer
-Nearly 200 Organizations and Companies Urge Senate to Adopt Key Energy-Efficiency Provision in Climate Bill
-Report Argues for a Decentralized System of Renewable Power Generation

Climate & environment - Nov 6

kristinsponsler — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:03:55 -0800

-Coping With Climate Change: Which Societies Will Do Best?
-GM's Money Trees
-The Carnivore’s Dilemma
-USDA Research: Does No-Till Really Capture More Carbon?
-Why growing virgin vegetable oil to burn is crazy
-Pachauri Still Sees a Chance for Success in Copenhagen Talks
-The Inferno

Food & agriculture - Nov 6

kristinsponsler — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:05:31 -0800

-Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Eating Animals' Book Will Fundamentally Change the Way You Think About Food
-Back to the Land: The New Green Revolution
-Farm Aid
-Georgia growers filling organic niche market
-Discussing the future of urban agriculture in KC

Growing in Community

kristinsponsler — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:32:51 -0800

I think the question of land access may end up being the central political issue of the coming century. In both the rich world and the poor world, we’ve systematically deprived people of easy access to land. We have driven up the price of land in the rich world by encouraging sprawl, and thus forced out agrarian populations that previous fed cities. We have pushed people into cities in the name of globalization and industrialization, and claimed their land for speculation.

Dr. Albert Bartlett's "Laws of Sustainability"

kristinsponsler — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:07:03 -0800

At the Denver ASPO conference, I had the good fortune to meet Dr. Albert Bartlett. Afterward, Dr. Bartlett e-mailed me some material he had written over the years. The "Laws of Sustainability" were included in this material. They are part of Al Bartlett's contribution to the anthology The Future of Sustainability by Marco Keiner, published in 2006.

Decline of the Empire — Now What?

kristinsponsler — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:45:13 -0800

It is now 4 months since I wrote The Decline of the American Empire. The time is ripe for a follow-up. I will tell a sad story first, talk a little about our precarious banking system, and then relate the lessons learned back to my Decline theme. At the end I will talk about what all this means for the loosely structured peak oil "movement".

Billy Blundermacher’s Great Corn Cob Fiasco

grizzlegritz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:20:10 -0800

Billy Blundermacher was maybe not the smartest farmer in Winsome County but contrary to what politicians, prophets, preachers and pedagogues were saying, he knew that 1 plus 1 always equaled 2. Often he wished fervently it were not so, that numbers existed only in the fantasy realm of the Federal Reserve, not the real world.

Capitalism, love, change, or leave it? - Nov 5

kristinsponsler — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:00:09 -0800

-John Maynard Keynes: Don't call it a comeback
-Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism
-Economic growth has let us down. What's the alternative?
-The Iron Cheer of Empire
-Small Deposits Add Up: Savings, not just loans, factor into microfinance formula

Continuously less and less (paper abstract)

kristinsponsler — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:27:56 -0800

The fundamental enabler of our industrialized American way of life is continuous access to enormous quantities of inexpensive nonrenewable natural resources (NNRs)—energy resources, metals, and minerals.