Biodiversity and Peaks

  • Con­ser­va­tion Resource Briefs 2008.
    Brought to you by the Nat­ur­al Resources Con­ser­va­tion Ser­vice branch of the U.S. Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture. There a sev­er­al reports rang­ing from Soil Qual­i­ty, Soil Ero­sion, Water Man­age­ment, and Wetlands. 
  • Peak Soil: Why Cel­lu­losic Ethanol, Bio­fu­els are Unsus­tain­able and a Threat to Amer­i­ca April 10, 2007.
    Writ­ten by Alice Friede­mann and host­ed at Cul­ture Change. This 20 page arti­cle takes a crit­i­cal look into large scale bio­fu­el pro­duc­tion and it’s down­falls, par­tic­u­lar­ly in bio­di­ver­si­ty, soil, water, to pos­si­ble solu­tions and reformations.
  • Water Impli­ca­tions of Bio­fu­els Pro­duc­tion in the U.S. Octo­ber, 2007.
    Pre­pared by the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Sci­ences, Nation­al Research Council.
  • The True Cost of Agro­fu­els: Impacts on Food, Forests, Peo­ple and Cli­mate 2007.
    This report is one of the most com­plete analy­sis of the mul­ti­ple aspects of Agro­fu­els cov­er­ing issues of soil, cor­po­rate con­trol and con­sol­i­da­tion, water, plan­ta­tions and pulp mills, fer­til­iz­er usage, Genet­ic Engi­neer­ing, trans­porta­tion, and cli­mate change. The con­clu­sion flesh­es out path­ways and solu­tions to meet­ing the chal­lenges for which agro­fu­els are a false solution.
  • Agro­fu­els: Towards a Real­i­ty Check in 9 Key Areas June, 2007.
    Report brought to you by the Transna­tion­al Insti­tute, which includes sev­er­al Euro­pean groups. The Report asks 9 key ques­tions and explores them with 30 pages of qual­i­ty mate­r­i­al with many ref­er­ences and an inter­na­tion­al scope.
  • Nation­al Geo­graph­ic Pho­to Flash­back Sep­tem­ber, 2008.
    This pic­ture of a man mea­sur­ing the for­mer ground lev­el in rur­al New Mex­i­co, in 1957, great­ly illus­trates some of the fol­lies being revist­ed with cur­rent Bio­fu­el, Biochar, and Indus­tri­al Agri­cul­ture prac­tices. “Only the deep roots of native bluestem grass held this hill of sandy soil togeth­er; winds had carved the rest away. Back then farm­ers here used clean tillage, the prac­tice of clear­ing the soil sur­face of plant debris.”
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