peak oil
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The Woes of Industrial Agriculture
Our relationship with the earth changed fundamentally when we began practicing agriculture some ten thousand years ago. The transition from…
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Weeds or Wild Nature: a Permaculture Perspective
by David Holmgren Summary Land design and management informed by permaculture principles tends to regard naturalized species of plants as…
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A Computer Geek Starts a Garden, Part I – Background, Design and Initial Implementation
The yard in winter, before work begins… A great many people today are living in fear. The future looks uncertain,…
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The Nuclear Race to the Bottom
One thing that often is forgotten in discussions about nuclear energy utilization is that it involves quite a lot of…
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Nuclear Energy: A Resource for an Insane Society
Bill Mollison groups the earth’s resources into five categories. These resources are: Those which increase by modest use. For example,…
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Can We Feed Ourselves in a Post Peak Oil World?
At the end of 2007, the UK’s Simon Fairlie released what is essentially an update to figures produced back in…
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Travelling Light
Editor’s Note: With a solar powered blimp on the cards, I thought we’d visit the whole airship potential…. Is the…
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Phosphorus Matters II – Keeping Phosphorus on Farms
Editor’s Prelude: Peak Phosphorus barely registers alongside it’s more gregarious, attention-getting bigger brother, Peak Oil. Yet, the implications are even…
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The Oil Intensity of Food
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Today we are an oil-based civilization, one that is totally dependent on a…
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Oil and the Darfur Conflict
In a bid to join the dots a little further after the previous post, here’s an additional clip. This one…
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The Video Shell Doesn’t Want You to See
Photo credit: Ed Kashi The video below was originally displayed on wiwavshell.org – the website for the plaintiffs filing a…
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