Energy News
Our energy supply: some basics
If a person were to listen to Energy Secretary Steven Chu or National Geographic, one might think that our energy problems are fairly minor and distant. We can easily add sufficiently renewable energy to substitute for fossil fuels in a fairly short time frame. But if one looks at the situation more closely, one discovers that the situation is quite different.
From counterculture to cyberculture: the life and times of Stewart Brand
Fred Turner's book looks at the influence Bucky Fuller had on a range of people, in particular Stewart Brand, who helped create first the hippie counterculture and the back to the land movement of the sixties and seventies, then later the cyberculture that grew up around the San Francisco bay area.
Cash for carbon capture projects
Oil production predicted to peak in 2014
Broadwind Drops, Sees First Half Bottom
PetroVietnam Gas inks $1bn pipeline
Food & agriculture - Mar 12
-Grow your own' revolution receives major land boost
-Slow foodies are not cavemen
-What’s driving our favorite fruit into decline?
-A Backlash After San Francisco Labels Sewage Sludge "Organic"
-How Locavores Could Save the World
-Increasing Yields and Decreasing Fertilizer Waste on Subsistence Farms
-How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
-Greenhouse project promotes self-sufficiency
Why Wind is a Better Bet Than Solar
Why Wind is a Better Bet Than Solar
ODAC Newsletter - Mar 12
What do you do if you're an energy consultancy that finds itself on the wrong side of the peak oil argument just as much of the oil industry and the rest of the world embraces the idea? The solution devised by eternal optimists IHS CERA, hosting a conference in Houston this week, is to sidestep this embarrassing development by simply rebranding the problem: 'peak demand'.
Renewables & efficiency - Mar 12
-EU to exceed 2020 green energy target: forecasts
-Quantum Physics Breakthrough: Scientists Find an Equation for Materials Innovation
-Solar PV has failed in Germany and it will fail in the UK
Health Is the Tipping Point to Identify and Eliminate GMOs
Are Americans willing to jeopardize their health with GMO foods? Probably not. And it might take only 15 million Americans or 5 percent of the U.S. population to establish a tipping point for change.
Gold Prices Sideways Amid M&A
Deep thought - Mar 12
-The Wrong Kind of Green
-Return of the natives
-A Lesson from the Great Depression
-Why Us, God?
Oil Moves Higher as Demand Seen Rising
Vattenfall sells off German power grid
Vermont: Neighbors and Online Networks
When Michael Wood-Lewis and his wife, Valerie, moved from Washington, D.C., to the south end of Burlington, Vermont, in 1998, "we'd landed in what we thought was our dream neighborhood. It was walkable, near the lake, full of trees. But we were having trouble getting to know the neighbors.
Church in Our Times: Spirit and Security in the Face of Reality
We’ve been hearing for years that the mainline Protestant churches are on the wane in the United States, emptying out in an increasingly atomized society. And Catholicism has been clearly weakened by recent internal events. Is the Christian church only a force on the Right in the United States?
