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Climate & environment - Nov 6

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-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

archived November 6, 2009
	

The great biofuels debate - Oct 27

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Biofuel Displacing Food Crops May Have Bigger Carbon Impact Than Thought
-Biofuels rather than electric cars to meet renewables target
-Tanzania Suspends Biofuels Investments
-Who says it's green to burn woodchips?
-Carbon advantage of biofuels may be overstated

archived October 27, 2009
	

US and fossil fuels - friend or foe? - Oct 20

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Fossil Fuels’ Hidden Cost Is in Billions, Study Says
-Will EPA veto or regulate the plunder of Appalachia?
-Global Warming Accelerating While The U.S. Backpedals

archived October 20, 2009
	

Resources and anthropocentrism

Guy R. McPherson, Nature Bats Last

Evolution demands short-term thinking focused on individual survival. Most attempts to overcome our evolutionarily hardwired absorption with self are selected against. The Overman is dead, killed by a high-fat diet and unwillingness to exercise. Reflexively, we follow him into the grave.

archived October 12, 2009
	

ODAC Newsletter - Oct 9

Staff, Oil Depletion Analysis Centre

"A peak of conventional oil production before 2030 appears likely" and "there is a significant risk of a peak in conventional oil production before 2020..."

archived October 9, 2009
	

Peak Oil and the Necessity of Transitioning to Regenerative Agriculture

Chad Hellwinckel and Daniel De La Torre Ugarte, Farm Foundation

As global energy availability begins to decline over the next several decades, energy-intensive industrial methods of food production will have to be transitioned to regenerative practices that 1) sponsor their own energy, 2) build soils and 3) produce in abundance.

archived October 7, 2009
	

Solutions & sustainability - Sept 10

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Transition Towns project helps kick oil addiction
-Cuban Ambassador visits Cloughjordan
-In a small patch of land, hope reborn for Sudanese refugees
-Community Supported Agriculture thrives around Osceola, Wis.
-Celebrating the abundant growth of the farmers market
-Algae biofuel propels a braves’ new world
-Transition towns

archived September 10, 2009
	

Scale

Guy R. McPherson, Nature Bats Last

Within the span of a couple generations, we abandoned a durable, finely textured, life-affirming set of living arrangements characterized by self-sufficient family farms intermixed with small towns that provided commerce, services, and culture. Worse yet, we traded that model for a coarse-scaled arrangement wholly dependent on ready access to cheap fossil fuels.

archived September 9, 2009
	

UK - Aug 25

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Hooked: George Monbiot on fishing
-Objectors to wind farms to be bought off
-Oil giants destroy rainforests to make palm oil diesel for motorists

archived August 25, 2009
	

Biofuels - Aug 20

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-A New Test for Business and Biofuel
-Surely Some Flora Out There Can Fuel My Car
-Fuels for thought
-Entrepreneurs Wade Into the 'Dead Zone'

archived August 20, 2009
	

United States - Aug 12

Staff, Eerngy Bulletin

-Offsets and Big Ag: Does the climate bill give away too much to the farm sector?
-US Still Paying Blackwater Millions
-Steinbeck’s Descendants

archived August 12, 2009
	

Food & agriculture - Aug 7

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Deeply Rooted
-A growing revolution: Urban gardens are changing the landscape
-Reality Pricks Corn Ethanol's Bubble

archived August 7, 2009
	

Commentary: Global Energy Drivers in a “Black Swan World”

Remarks by Tom Petrie, summarized by Steve Andrews, ASPO-USA

Last year the global credit crunch and its knock-on effects precipitated the sharpest oil and gas price declines in over two decades. Despite the recent $100+/ Bbl price implosion and subsequent partial recovery, we have now entered an historic inflection point—call it “practical peak oil”—in the global balance of conventional energy supplies...

archived August 3, 2009
	

ODAC Newsletter - July 17

Staff, Oil Depletion Analysis Centre

A weekly review from a UK perspective

archived July 17, 2009
	

Exxon: Late, But Always the Bride

Steve LeVine, The Oil and the Glory

Quite apart from the long-shot chance that the venture could actually succeed, Exxon benefits from being able to brandish an environmental pin on its lapel, and its association with an authentic biofuels rock star.

archived July 15, 2009