Biochar - The Real El Dorado

SUBHEAD: We, the fire people, have to make coal and bury it, reversing the past 500 years since the start of the Industrial Revolution.By Albert Bates on 3 March 2011 in The Great Change - (http://peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2011/03/real-el-dorado.html)Image above: Screenshot from the game "The road to El Dorado". From (http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/14685/gold-and-glory-the-road-to-el-dorado/images/

Is Peak Population Almost Here?

SUBHEAD: The convergence of climate change and Peak Oil has enormous implications for population growth.By Paul Chefurka on 22 February 2011 in Limits to Growth - (http://paulchefurka.ca/Peak%20Population.html)Image above: 'The Waiting Room" by George Tooker, 1959. From (http://weimarart.blogspot.com/2010/11/george-tooker.html).After 40 years of beating the drum of overpopulation, I have

No Modern "Steady State"

SUBHEAD: A system without fossil fuels and without debt is the world of 1750 with fewer than one billion people.By Gail Tverberg on 21 February 2011 in Our Infinite World - (http://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/02/21/there-is-no-steady-state-economy-except-at-a-very-basic-level/#more-1301)Image above: Home economy crafts in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia circa 1750. From (http://

Past the Point of No Return

SUBHEAD: The need is to find a way to reduce the population at a rate that will exceed the rate of decline of the carrying capacity.By George Mobus 13 February 2011 in Question Everything - (http://questioneverything.typepad.com/question_everything/2011/02/past-the-point-of-no-return.html)Image above: People crowd train in Dhaka, India, station. From (http://knowledge.allianz.com/?354/

The Third Transition

SUBHEAD: The passage through to this period will be difficult, but what follows will be sustainable.By Tom Whipple on 17 February 2011 in Falls Church News-Press(http://www.fcnp.com/commentary/national/8548-the-peak-oil-crisis-the-3rd-transition.html)Image above: High Point on Seattle, Washington. A Sustainable community. From (https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/IIah05u2uHw1UioIohOBHg).Modern

Record Food Prices

SUBHEAD: World food prices jump to record on sugar and oilseed costs.By Rudy Reutenberg on 5 January 2011 for Bloomberg News - (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-05/global-food-prices-climb-to-record-on-cereal-sugar-costs-un-agency-says.html)Image above: Oilseeds.World food prices rose to a record in December on higher sugar, grain and oilseed costs, the United Nations said, exceeding levels