Sustainable Agriculture Information Links & Resources

Initial 5/05/04 Updated 06/25/09

Purpose:

    The purpose of this webpage is to provide veterinarians, students, livestock producers and consumers links to materials on the complex and inter-related issues impacting agricultural resilience, sustainability and food security. As many of these issues are controversial because they involve public policy decisions impacting major stakeholders, often with competing interests and opposing positions, and infrastructures on local, national and international scales, my intent is to include materials from all sides of such issues. Although I've tended to focus on the more science-based academic, government and NGO on-line and print  materials, these materials are not screened for veracity or position but listed because the site or source appeared that it might contain useful information.  Material appearing in the scientific refereed literature that is not publicly accessible on-line is not included as it is identifiable through bibliographic databases such as PubMed and ISI's Web of Science. As government entities are involved, much of their associated literature is "grey", meaning that it is not identifiable through the traditional literature databases. As many of these issues are controversial and the blog phenomenon is very active, I link the more interesting, relevant in-depth posts that I happen to run across.  Materials are organized approximately alphabetically under headings or subheadings but as growth is by irregular incremental additions (punctated evolution?) as I explore varying issues over time and my understanding develops and changes, the organization tends more toward chaos than order. In other words, it's a mess. I cannot vouch for the accuracy or usefulness of these on-line materials. Please let me know of useful materials and links that I've overlooked or of errors that I've made (no spaces in -  j m gay at wsu dot the usual educational suffix).

Issues of Varying Agricultural and Food Security, Sustainability and Resilience Concern & Controversy:

• Economic Globalization
• Emerging Infectious Agents, Parasites
• Global Climate Variability, Change
• Genetic Diversity - Invasive Species, GMO's, Extinction
• Increasing Petroleum Scarcity, shift to Biofuels
• Regional Human Population Expansion
• Regional Soil Depletion, Salinization
• Regional Fresh Water Scarcity

Contents (Major Headings):

• Food Security - Sustainability and Resilience
• Hydrology / Water Sustainability & Security
• Soils & Soil Systems
• Energy Sustainability  - Fossil Fuels, Alternative Sources, Energy Uses
• Global Climate Change
• Systems and System Dynamics - Earth Systems / Ecology / Ecosystems
• Economics - Resource / Environmental / Agricultural
• Environment / Environmentalism
• Genetic Diversity - Invasive Species / Genetically Modified Organisms
• Population Demographics - Expansion / Societal Collapse
• Anthropology / Sociology / Psychology
• Sustainable Agriculture - Aquaculture / Organic / Permaculture / Sustainable / Urban /
• Life Cycle Analysis / Industrial Ecology
• Regional Universities - Oregon State / U Idaho / U Washington / Washington State U
• Academic Web Sites
• State Websites
• Federal Websites
• International Websites
• Other Websites
• Alternative / Contrarian / Heretic / Provocative / "Rock Turner" Viewpoints

  Note: As this is a long and growing list, if you know a word in the title, use your browser's "Find" function (usually under "Edit" on the toolbar) to jump quickly to and through those titles containing that word. For searching PDF files using Adobe Acrobat, the search function is under "Tools". As websites are constantly re-organized, if a link fails try trimming the URL back to the next "/" or using a search engine such as Google to search for the title, enclosing it in quotes for improved specificity.

As this is a collection in progress, I apologize in advance for omissions, misinterpretations and general disorganization chaos, which includes section to section inconsistencies.

Synthesis / data / graphics (temporary bin)

• Worldometer
• Commodity Futures Charts - Slipka Financial Partners, LLC
• Data Sources on Overpopulation and Sustainability
• science.hq.nasa.gov/oceans/system/
• http://www.physics.unlv.edu/~jeffery/astro/earth/earth.html
• http://www.uwsp.edu/business/economicswisconsin/e_lecture/pop_sum.htm
• NASA Visible Earth
• GapMinder
• Images of the social and economic world
• Global Population Map
• Population Pyramids

Food Security - Sustainability and Resilience

abelard - land conservation and food production

ADA - American Dietetic Association - Food Security/Environment position papers

• Food and nutrition professionals can implement practices to conserve natural resources and support ecological sustainability, 2007 (pdf)

AERU - Agribusiness & Economics Research Unit - Lincoln University, NZ

• AERU publications

agroterrorism:

Counter-Terrorism Training and Resources for Law Enforcement - Food Publications

APHA - American Public Health Association

• Toward a Healthy, Sustainable Food System - Policy Statement 200712

aquaculture:

• FAO
  • FIGIS - Fisheries Global Information System
    • Aquaculture
  • FIS - Fisheries Information Center
  • SOFIA
    • The State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture, 2004 - Contents
  • State of world aquaculture: 2006 (FAO, pdf)
• USDA
  • ARS National Aquaculture Research Program
  • 2005 Census of Aquaculture
  • ERS Aquaculture Briefing
• WAS - World Aquaculture Society
• WorldFish Center
  • The Threat to Fisheries and Aquaculture from Climate Change (pdf)

BIOME (Univ of Nottingham)

• Food Security
• Food Supply

Center for Food & Justice - UEPI - Urban & Environmental Policy Institute - Occidental College

Center for Global Food Issues (Hudson Institute)

• Alex Avery - wiki
• Dennis Avery - wiki
• The Environmental Safety and Benefits of Pharmaceutical Technologies in Beef Production, 2007 (pdf summary)
• Source Watch CGFI page

Centre for Studies in Food Security (Ryerson University)

• E-Resources
• Resources

Center for Sustainable Systems - Keoleian, Gregory A. U Mich

• Life Cycle Based Indicators for Sustainable Agriculture (pdf)

consumer storage and preparation energy:

• ARTI - Appropriate Rural Technology Institute
  • Biogas Plant: A compact digester for producing biogas from food waste
  • Briquetted Charcoal from Sugarcane Trash
• Aprovecho Research Center (rocket stove, prolena ecostove)
• BioEnergy Lists: Biomass Cooking Stoves
• Biomass Cooking Stoves
• Cookstove Safety
• Fuel for Life: Household Energy and Health, 2006 (WHO pdf) indoor air pollution index
• transect points
  • Pyrolysis (2/10/07)
    • The Garlington WoodGas Stove (html)
    • MIDGE (Modified Inverted Downdraft Gasifier Experiment) (pdf)
• texts:
  • Energy use, cost and product quality in preserving vegetables at home by canning, freezing and dehydration, 1980 (J Food Sci 45(6):1561-5)
  • Energy use in food processing for nutrition and development, 1985 (Food and Nutrition Bulletin 7(2))

Crop Diversity Trust

CS Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems - Michigan State University

• Animals in the Food System - proceedings index

Development Gateway Foundation

• Food Security

Earth Policy Institute

• Books
• Supermarkets and Service Stations Now Competing for Grain (7/13/06)

EarthTrends: Environmental Information Portal (water, climate, energy, food, population)

economics:

• Farm Foundation
  • What's Driving Food Prices? 7/08

ELDIS Gateway to Development Information - Internet development  information service

• Food Security Resource
  • Food statistics, situation reports and crop forecasts
  • Websites

energy in food production:

• Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for the Fruit and Vegetable Processing Industry, 2007, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab pdf
• Energy use in food processing for nutrition and development, 1985 (David Pimentel, Marcia Pimentel, Food and Nutrition Bulletin 7(2))
• Energy Use in the Food Sector: A data survey (A Carlsson-Kanyama, M Faist pdf)
• Energy use in food processing for nutrition and development, D & M Pimentel, UN Food and Nutrition Bulletin 7(2), 1985
• Lucas, Caroline - Green Part MEP - publications
  • Fuelling a food crisis: The impact of peak oil on food security (pdf)

Environmental Literacy Council

• Food

FAO

• Animal Production and Health Division - Resources
  • Gridded Livestock of the World, 2007 - TOC
  • Livestock's Long Shadow, 2007 - TOC
  • Livestock and the Environment: Finding a balance, 1997 - TOC
• FAOSTAT
• Food Security Statistics
• The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2004 (index)

FAO GIEWS: Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture

• A review of mixed farming systems in the semi-arid zone of sub-saharan Africa, 1991 TOC
• Agriculture, Food and Water, 2003 TOC
• Analysis of farming systems
• Census of Agriculture
• Cereal Supply/Demand Roundup
• Crop Prospects and Food Situation
  • April, 2008
  • July 2006
• Food Crops and Shortages (quarterly)
• Food Outlook (quarterly)
• Food Security Statistics
• GLiPHA - Global Livestock Production and Health Atlas
• Gridded Livestock of the World, 2007 - TOC
• Hunger map - 3 yr averages
• Land and Water development division
  • Soil Biodiversity Portal: Soil Health for Food Security
• Land Reform, 1997 TOC
• Organic Agriculture
  • OFS - International Conference on Organic Agriculture and Food Security, 5/07
• SOFA: The State of Food and Agriculture
• Statistical Yearbook
• Summary of World Food And Agricultural Statistics (2005) pdf
• World Food Summit, documents 6/02
• World livestock production systems: Current status, issues and trends (1995)
• Special Reports

Special Programme for Food Security

Organic agriculture, environment and food security, 2002 (N El-Hage Scialabba C Hattam) TOC

Livestock to 2020 The Next Food Revolution, 1999 (83 pg. pdf)

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2005, TOC

FAPRI - Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, U Missouri

• Agricultural Outlook - US & World

FCRN - Food Climate Research Network

• Cooking up a storm: Food, greenhouse gas emissions and our changing climate (2008, 156 pg pdf)
  • Summary (2008, 28 pg pdf)
• Food and its life cycle: impacts, analysis and options (index)
• Food consumption (index)
• Food waste (index)
• Impacts of climate change on agriculture (index)
• Research Library Resources (large collection of resources)
  • Food and its life cycle: impacts, analysis and options
  • Meat
  • Transport
• Relevant projects
• Transport (index)
• Links

food excess:

I couldn't have said it better myself (9/05 Stayin' Alive blog post  on Marion Nestle Preventing Childhood Diabetes: The Need for Public Health Intervention. Am J Public Health, 95(9):1497-1499, 2005)

FoodFirst: Institute for Food and Development Policy

• 12 Myths about Hunger (based on book "World Hunger: 12 Myths")
• agroecology & sustainable food systems
• challenging industrial agriculture and the green revolutionTen Reasons Why the Rockefeller and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations’ Alliance for Another Green Revolution Will Not Solve the Problems of Poverty and Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2006 - pdf

food justice: "the right of every person to have reasonable access to a supply of food that is adequate in terms of both amount and nutritional value"

• DMIBlog
  • Food Justice in New York (7/7/06)
• Food Justice Strategy Bill (UK, 2003)
• Greenblade::Justice Journal blog
• How Harlem Eats (MW Griffith, The Nation 8/24/06)
• People's Grocery blog - food justice
• The “Food Justice” Movement: Trying To Break the Food Chains (Gotham Gazette 12/03)

food politics:

Food Politics (Marion Nestle, New York U)

• Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, 2002 - Amazon
• What to Eat, 2006 - Amazon
  • comment - U.S. Food Policy blog - (6/14/06)

texts:

• Voting with your trolley: Can you really change the world just by buying certain foods? The Economist 12/7/06

Food Security Network (dialogue addressing solutions to global food security concerns through sustainable agricultural practices)

Food21

Food21 Symposium (2004 - pdf)

Future Harvest

GECAFS - Global Environmental Change and Food Systems

• publications
  • Assessing the vulnerability of food systems to global environmental change: a conceptual and methodological review, 2006 (pdf)
  • Climate Change and Food Security.  PJ Gregory, JSI Ingram, M Brklacich (2005). Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B  360: 2139–2148 (pdf)
  • Food Security and Institutions in Protracted Crises: Enhancing Food Systems Resilience (ppt)
  • Global Enviro n m e n t a l Change and Food P rovision: A New Role for Science, 2002 (pdf)

food safety:

• GAO
  • Selected Countries' Systems Can Offer Insights into Ensuring Import Safety and Responding to Foodborne Illness, 2008 (pdf)

hunger:

• Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger
• Hunger Notes - World Hunger

ICRISAT - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

Institute of Science in Society

• Current food production system due for collapse (html)
• Feeding the World under Climate Change (6/04, html)
• Sustainable Agriculture: Critical Ecological, Social & Economic Issues (7/04, html)

IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute

• IMPACT: Global Trends in Food Supply and Demand
  • Publications
    • Livestock to 2020. The next food revolution (pdf)
    • Understanding the Links between Agriculture and Health - Focus 13 TOC, 2006
• New Risks and Opportunities for Food Security Scenario Analyses for 2015 and 2050 (index pdf)

IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis - Science for Global Insight

• Can China Feed Itself? A system for evaluation of policy options (Gerhard K. Heilig)
  • arguments
• Land Use Change and Agriculture Program

ILRI - International Livestock Research Institute

• Agriculture and Health
  • publications

IMF - World Economic and Financial Surveys - recent publications

• Housing and the Business Cycle (4/08 pdf, Chap. 5 Commodity Prices)

Informa economics

• Analysis of Potential Causes of Consumer Food Price Inflation, 2007 (pdf)

Kitchen Gardeners International

Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture (Iowa State U)

• Speeches and presentations
• Staff papers:
  • Food, Fuel, and Freeways: An Iowa perspective on how far food travels, fuel usage, and greenhouse gas emissions (2001, pdf)
  • The Economic Impacts of Increased Fruit and Vegetable Production and Consumption in Iowa: Phase II (5/06)

life cycle analyses:

• Canning Green Beans: Ecoprofile of Truitt Bothers Process, 2007 (IERE pdf)
• Comparative Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of New Zealand’s and the UK’s Dairy Industry, 2007 (C Saunders, A Barber, Lincoln U AERU Research Report No. 297, pdf)
• Food Miles – Comparative Energy/Emissions Performance of New Zealand’s Agriculture Industry, 2006 (C Saunders, A Barber, G Taylor, Lincoln U AERU Research Report No. 285, pdf)
• LCA Food Database
• Tangerines per Gallon (Chicago Boyz blog, 7/29/07)
• Tangerines by the Gallon (Political Calculations blog, 8/7/07) - includes calculator

livestock:

• A manual for the primary animal health care worker (on-line, FAO 1994)
• Community-Based Animal Healthcare: A Practical Guide to Improving Primary Veterinary Services, 2001 (Amazon)
  • Andy Catley, Feinstein International Center, Tufts
• Community based drought management for the pastoral livestock sector in sub-Saharan Africa, 2003 (doc)
• Livestock's Long Shadow (FAO, 2006) - PDF, 5MB
• Veterinary institutions in the developing world: current status and future needs, C. de Haan, ed. (Scientific and Technical Review, 23(1), 2004)
• Vetwork UK
• World livestock production systems Current status, issues and trends, 1995 FAO - TOC

NASA - Global Change Master Directory

• Agriculture

NCIFAP - National Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production

nutrients and requirements:

• AICR - American Institute for Cancer Research
  • Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective
• The Nutrition Source - Harvard School of Public Health (Walter Willett - wiki)
• IOM - Institute of Medicine
  • Dietary Reference Intakes: The Essential Guide to Nutrient Requirements, 2006 - only references as pdf
    • (2002 DRI table - pdf)
• USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory
  • USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
  • USDA Nutrient Lists - foods sorted by quantity of specific nutrient
• US Dept of Health & Human Svcs
  • Dietary Guidelines for Americans - 2005

OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)

• Towards Sustainable Household Consumption? Trends and Policies in OECD Countries (2002, pdf1, pdf2)

Oxfam America

• Cuba: Going against the grain (food crisis - index)

PECC - Pacific Economic Cooperation Council - Industry Sector: Food & Agriculture

plant pathology:

• CABI Publishing - CAB Abstracts Plus
  • Distribution Maps of Plant Diseases

International Society for Plant Pathology

Text:

• Our Food is Dying The Scientist 20(3):62, 2006

• New Scientist
  • Blight on the Landscape 4/3/07 - Wheat rust

Post Carbon Institute

• The Food and Farming Transition: Toward a post carbon food system, 2009 - pdf

PROFETAS - PROtein Foods, Environment, Technology and Society

• publications

Program on Food Security and the Environment - Stanford FSI & Woods Institute

• Biofuels, Climate, and Food Security
• Industrialized Aquaculture and Livestock Production

QLIF - Quality Low Input Food

• Joint Organic Congress 5/06 e-prints

Safe Food and Fertilizer

SAGE - Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment

• Global Land Use Database

SDC - Sustainable Development Commission (UK) -f arming  food

• A vision for sustainable agriculture, 2001 pdf

Sierra Club

• Decoder: Miles to Go Before You Eat - Why it pays to buy locally grown food (5/31/06)

Soil Association

• One Planet Agriculture (pdf from Transition Culture)

supply and demand:

• World Bank
  • Rising Food Prices Threaten Poverty Reduction (press release) - report (pdf)

The Sustainable Food Laboratory

transport:

• Food transport indicators to 2004 (DEFRA, pdf)

UNICEF

• Progress for Children: A report card on nutrition no. 4, 2006 (index, pdf - 2MB)

UN System Network on Rural Development and Food Security

• Agriculture

USDA

• AMS -  Agricultural Marketing Service - Transportation and Marketing
  • Grain Transportation Report - (costs and quantities) - archives
• ERS - Economic Research Service
  •  
  • Food Security Assessment 2005, GFA 17
    • Fifty Years of U.S. Food Aid and Its Role in Reducing World Hunger (pdf html)
  • Household Food Security in the United States, 2004, ERR11
  • International Food Consumption Patterns
  • Annual Nutrient Availability data set - 1910 to current consumption per capita
  • Annual Food Availability spreadsheets - 1910 to current consumption per capita
• FAS - Foreign Agricultural Service - Grain and Feed Division
  • Circular: Tightening 2006/07 Global Grain Supplies to Boost Prices - pdf
  • Production, Supply and Distribution on-line reports
    • PS & D Official Statistics

WHO

• Nutrition in emergencies - related publications and documents
  • Food and nutrition needs in emergencies. Rome, World Food Programme, 2003.pdf
  • The Sphere Project: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response
    • Sphere Handbook, 2004 TOC

World Bank

• Managing the Livestock Revolution: Policy and Technology to Address the Negative Impacts of a Fast-Growing Sector (2005, pdf)

World Hunger Notes

• Books
• World Hunger Facts

WRI - World Resources Institute

• Agriculture and Food - Data Tables
• Agriculture and Food - Maps
• Agriculture and Food - Country Profiles
  • China (pdf)
  • India (pdf)
  • United States (pdf)
• Vital Signs on-line - Food
  • Grain Harvest Sets Record, But Supplies Still Tight (12/07)

Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

• Delivery services for urban shopping: experiences & perspectives (2004, Bohler & Reutter, pdf)

People:

• Avery, Dennis - CGFI Center for Global Food Issues - Hudson Institute
  • The Environmental Safety and Benefits of Growth Enhancing Pharmaceutical Technologies in Beef Production, 2007 (pdf  press release)
  • Sourcewatch
• Borlaug, Norman
  • Billions Served: Norman Borlaug interviewed by Ronald Bailey (Reason online, 4/00)
• Brummer, E. Charles, U Georgia Forage and Biomass Crop Breeding & Genetics
  • Putting food production in context: Toward a postmechanistic agricultural ethic. BioScience 52:264-271, 2002
  •  Diversity, stability, and sustainable American agriculture. Agron J 90:1-2, 1998
• Brown, Lester - Earth Policy Institute
  • Grist Magazine interview (3/6/06)
  • Nature's Limit (State of the World, 1995)
  • Nova World in the Balance Voices of Concern  interview
  • wikipedia
  • counter - Doomster, Dormice Promoted (The Daily Ablution blog, 10/19/05)
• Brummer, Charles (agronomist, Iowa State)
  • The Forage Crop Alternative
• Conway, Gordon
  • The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the Twenty-First Century, (Amazon)
• Cook, Christopher
  • Diet for a Dead Planet: Big business and the coming food crisis - website - Amazon
• Evenson, Robert
  • Assessing the Impact of the Green Revolution (seminar)
  • Making Science and Technology Work for the Poor - lect 1 lect 2  lect 3
• Keoleian, Gregory A. Associate Professor of Sustainable Systems, Center for Sustainable Systems, U Mich
  • Life Cycle Based Indicators for Sustainable Agriculture (pdf)
• Milich, Len Arid Lands Resource Sciences; U Arizona, Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping Officer, UN World Food Programme, Angola
  • Food Security (html)
• Nestle, Marion, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, New York University - faculty profile
  • FoodPolitics.com
    • Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
  • What to Eat
• Pfeiffer, Dale Allen
  • Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture, 2006 (Amazon)
  • Eating Fossil Fuels, 2003 (shorter version html pdf pdf2)
  • counter? - Dale Allen Pfeiffer wises up - Peak Oil Debunked 9/26/05
  • SourceWatch
  • The Mountain Sentinel - articles
• Pollan, Michael
  • articles
    • Mass Natural (New York Times 6/4/06 via Truthout)
  • about
  • The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals - Amazon
    • Business Week book review
    • New York Times book review
    • UC Berkeley News interview
    • An Open Letter to Michael Pollan (Whole Foods Market, John Mackey's Blog, 5/26/06)
• Simon, Michele
  • Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Amazon, book website)
• Smil, Vaclav
  • Energy, Environment, Economy: Some unorthodox thoughts, 2005 The Earth Institute Global Roundtable on Climate Change - flash pdf
  • Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century, 2001 (Amazon)
    • review, J Industrial Ecology 7(3-4):228-231 - pdf
  • Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems, 2008 (Amazon)
  • Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production, 2004 (Amazon)
    • review, Bioscience 56(10):839-845 - pdf
  • How many people can the Earth feed? (Population and Development Review 20(2):255–292, 1994)
  • Eating meat: Evolution, patterns, and consequences (Population and Development Review 28(4):599–639, 2002)
• Trewavas, AJ
  • The Population/Biodiversity Paradox. Agricultural Efficiency to Save Wilderness (Plant Physiol, 125:174-179, 2001, pdf)
  • Sourcewatch
• Weis, Tony, U Western Ontario
  • The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming  - publisher website (Amazon)
    • review
    • review
    • review
  • review of "The Pig Who Sang to the Moon"

Texts, Presentations:

• A harvest of hope for African farmers (Africa Renewal 22(3), html)
• African farm trajectories and the sub-continental food crisis (2005, G Djurfeldt, R Larsson, pdf)
• Assessing the Impact of the Green Revolution, 1960 to 2000 (RE Evenson, D Gollin, Science 300:758-762, 2003)
• Carbon Cycling: A sustainable path to food and energy (pdf)
• Climate variability and the Millennium development goal hunger target (9/04, index, pdf)
• Current food consumption patterns and global sustainability (html pdf)
• Diet, Energy and Global Warming (2005, G Eshel, P Martin, pdf)
• Dietary pesticides (99.99% all natural) (PNAS 87:7777-7781, 1990)
• Ears of plenty: The story of wheat (The Economist, 12/20/05, html)
• Eating Fossil Fuels (2004, DE Pfeiffer, From the Wilderness Publications, html)
• Eating Oil (Andy Jones, Resurgence 216, Stockholm Environment Institute, Univ York)
• Economists Study Implications Of High Diesel Prices on Farming (K-state research and extension, 5/05 html)
• Edible oil turns into bio-diesel (The Financial Express, 7/11/06)
• Energy Use for Cooking and Other Stages in the Life Cycle of Food (2001, pdf)
• Environmental Impacts from Swedish Food Production and Consumption (2004, pdf)
• Feeding a world of 10 billion people: The TVA/IFDC legacy (2003, Norman Borlaug, pdf)
• Food sector and material flows- a short contribution (M Ritthoff, Wuppertal Inst, pdf)
• Food Security, agricultural technology and policy - the case of maize in sub-Saharan Africa (G Djurfeldt, R Larsson, pdf)
• Food That Travels Well (JE McWilliams, The New York Times, 8/6/07)
• Food and Energy in Japan - How will Japan feed itself in the 21st Century? (AFF Boys, 2000, html,  pdf)
• Global food security: Challenges and policies (MW Rosegrant, SA Cline, Science 302:1917-1919, 2003, pdf)
• Global Warming Could Slam Food Supply (ABC news 8/5/06)
• Home Grown: The Case For Local Food In A Global Market (2002, B Halweil, Worldwatch Inst library, pdf)
• How Much Fossil Fuel Did You Eat Today?: My Saudi Arabian Breakfast (2006, C Heeter, html)
• How much greenhouse gases in our plate? (html)
• The impact of household food consumption on resource and energy management (M Faist, S Kytzia, P Baccini, Int. J. Environment and Pollution, 15(2):183–199. pdf (bad pdf graphics))
• Institutions, Markets and Policies for Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth (A Dorward, J Kydd, J Morrison, C Poulton, pdf)
• Is Meat Sustainable? (2004, Worldwatch Institute World Watch, July/August, pdf (registration required))
• Life Cycle Based Indicators for Sustainable Agriculture (pdf)
• One Thing to Do About Food: A Forum (The Nation, 8/24/06)
• Oil and Food: A rising security challenge (2005, L Brown, Earth Policy Institute)
• Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and Food Supply (Consequences 1(2), 1995 html)
• Problems and Prospects of the World Food Situation, 2000 (TG Gebremedhin, J Agribusiness 18(2):221-236, pdf)
• Quantification of the environmental impact of different dietary protein choices (Am J Clin Nutr 78(3):664S-668S, html)
• Soil and Trouble (2004, set of papers on soil - Science index)
• Sustainable Food Security for all By 2020 - TOC (papers as PDFs)
• The environmental impact of recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST) use in dairy production (PNAS, 105(28):9668-9673, 2008)
• The Farmer's Share: Compare the Share, 2006 (pdf)
• Threats of Peak Oil to the Global Food Supply (7/05, Richard Heinberg, MuseLetter)
• The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2005 (pdf)

Nature

• Food and the Future (2002 collection)

New Scientist

• Climate change warning over food production (4/05))

The Wilderness Publications

• Cuba - A Hope (The Agricultural Crises in North Korea and Cuba - Pt. 2 - html)

books:

• Feed or Feedback: Agriculture, Population Dynamics and the State of the Planet (2003, A Duncan Brown, Amazon)
  • Feed or Feedback (list)
  • Environmental Problems in Perspective (Ockham's Razor author interview, ABC National Radio 11/6/05, 2nd site)
• Feeding the Ten Billion: Plants and population growth (1998, Lloyd T. Evans,  Amazon)
  • Review - Feeding Ten Billion People. Three views (Plant Physiol, 126:20-22 (2001) html)
• Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century (2001, Vaclav Smil, Amazon)
  • review1  review2  review3
• Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000, (2005, G. Federico, publisher site, Amazon)
  • negative review - A Duffin
  • review - B Gardner
• Food Insecurity and Hunger in the United States: An Assessment of the Measure, 2006 (NAS TOC)
• Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures (2005, L Brown, Earth Policy Institute Amazon)
  • on-line version - TOC (pdf & html)
• Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress & a Civilization in Trouble (2003, LR Brown, Amazon)
  • on-line version - TOC (pdf & html)
• Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (2006, LR Brown, Amazon)
  • o-line version - TOC (pdf & html)
    • Chap. 9: Feeding Seven Billion Well (pdf)
  • American Scientist review 5/06
• Plants and Population: Is There Time? (1999 NAS Colloquium, TOC)
  • Plants and Populations: Is there time? NV Fedoroff, JE Cohen, Proc Nat Acad Sci 96:5903-5907 (pdf)
• Six Arguments for a Greener Diet How a More Plant-Based Diet Could Save Your Health and the Environment (2006, MF Jacobson, Staff of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, 248 pp. ISBN 0-89329-049-1, Amazon)
  • book website
  • Science review, 314(5800):762-763
  • Consumer Action 10/12/06
  • HSUS Factory Farming Campaign
• The End of Food (2008, Paul Roberts, Amazon) - book website
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006, M Pollan, UC Berkeley, Amazon)
  • book webpage
  • Salon review
• The Ultimate Resource II: People, Materials, and Environment, 1998, Julian L. Simon - TOC
  • Chapter 6: What Are The Limits on Food Production?
• The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter, 2006 (Peter Singer, Princeton ethicist, Amazon)
• The World Food Problem: Tackling the Causes of Undernutrition in the Third World, 3^rd ed, (2004, H Leathers, P Foster, Amazon)
  • review1, review2 1st ed.
  • The World Food Problem: It’s All about Distribution (Isn’t It?), 2003 H Leathers - doc (link down 11/07)
• What to Eat, 2006 (Marion Nestle, professor New York U - Amazon)
  • comment - U.S. Food Policy blog - (6/14/06)

courses:

• Advanced Crop Production 39.766 (Martin Entz, Dept. Plant Science, U Manitoba)
• Food for Thought (UNCA - Integrative Liberal Studies)
• FW5455 Sustainable Aquaculture (AR Kapuscinski, U Minn)
• Geography 346U: World Population and Food Supply (Martha Works, Dept Geography, Portland State U, links)
• PLB 12: Plants and People (Kent J. Bradford, Diane M. Beckles, Dept of Vegetable Crops and Weed Science, UC Davis)
• FSHN 342, AG 342, Univ Stud 342, TSC 342 EnvS 342: World Food Issues: Past and Present (Clark Ford, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Iowa State)
  • How did things get this way? (broken link 11/07)

The Encyclopedia of Earth

• Life cycle assessment of farming systems

Wikipedia

• Food
• Food Security

blogs/news:

• AlterNet - EnviroHealth
  • Meat is a Global Warming Issue (8/24/06)
  • Will the End of Oil Be the End Of Food? (8/31/06)
• BenettOnTalk
  • potatoes
• Big Food Watch (Michele Simon)
• CounterCurrents
  • The End of Cheap Food (8/4/07)
• Crumb Trail (dead domain as of 12/05)
  • Junk Advocacy (grazing and GHG)
• ehp - environmental health perspectives - agriculture/farming
  • Pesticides disrupt nitrogen fixation (12/07)
• Energy Bulletin - Agriculture News
  • Current food production system due for collapse (ISIS, 4/7/05)
  • Pollan's new book on the U.S. food chain - the "oil diet" (4/11/06)
• Energy Farms
• Environmental Economics
  • Diet and the Environment (6/08/06)
• EnviroStats!
  • 2.015 billion metric tonnes of grains was harvested globally in 2005, down 2.5% from 2004 when the 2 billion barrier was broken for the first time in history, requiring half the world’s cropland, nearly 2/3 of irrigated land and accounting for 47% of our calories and 42% of our protein (7/16/07)
  • Each year, a person produces about 500L of urine which offers 0.2 kg of extractable phosphorus for fertilizers. This is 1.4% of the phosphorus required to produce 2,690 kg of wheat in a hectare of land each year, 1.3% phosphorus for 3,226 kg of barley and 0.9% phosphorus for 1,960 kg of rapeseed (7/27/07)
• Feedstuffs FoodLink
  • Fuel vs. Food list
    • Produce more beef with less
• Food Crisis
• FT.com
  • Food crisis is a chance to reform global agriculture (4/29/08)
• FuturePundit
  • Biomass Energy Will Boost Carbon Dioxide Emissions (8/18/07)
  • Biomass Energy To Drive Up Food Prices In Next 10 Years (7/7/07)
  • Humans Use Nearly a Quarter of World Biomass? (7/7/07)
• GristMill
  • Food as a commodity (1/16/06, Tom Philpott, Bitter Greens Journal)
  • Eat the Press: An interview with foodie author Michael Pollan (5/31/06)
  • Good Bite, and Good Luck: On freezing local foods (10/17/05)
  • Rattling the Food Chain: A cornucopia of new books tells us where our food comes from (8/31/06)
  • Soy You Want to Be a Vegetarian: On soy vs. meat (10/12/05)
• Muck and Mystery
  • Food Fashions (12/11/06)
  • Agricultural Problems (9/04)
  • Enviro-Ethics (6/5/06)
  • Factoids (5/06)
  • Fine Grain Analysis (6/05)
  • Fossil Fertilizer (4/06)
  • Habitat Management (4/05)
  • Nitrogen Transport (6/05)
  • A Miracle (5/06)
  • Petroleum Fertilizer (4/06)
  • Secret Ingredients (3/06)
  • Sweet Nothings (6/06) - maize
  • Tree Fluffers (5/05)
• New Scientist - Environment
  • Billions at risk from wheat super-blight (4/3/07)
• Perishable Pundit (Jim Prevor)
  • Can Organics Feed the Earth (9/11/07)
  • Pundit’s Mailbag – Life Cycle Analysis Used For Marketing Purposes (9/7/07)
  • What Is 'Life Cycle Analysis'? (8/29/07)
• Resilience Science
  • World Hunger – Successes and failures on the road to meet the Millennium Development Goals (11/1/06)
  • Estimating Greenlash from Agriculture via Climatic Regulation (9/1/06)
  • Fishing through marine foodwebs (3/5/06)
• Resource Insights - Kurt Cobb
  • Is just-in-time nearly out of time? (8/13/06)
  • The Newest Guest at Your Dinner Table: Your Car (5/26/06)
• Sustainable Table
• Swivel
  • Food production eats up energy ()
• The Oil Drum
  • Food to 2050 (3/10/08)
  • The Next Agriculture? (3/7/08)
  • US Grain Exports - Where to, how much? (3/5/08)
  • Fire and Rain: The Consequences of Changing Climate on Rainfall, Wildfire and Agriculture (2/21/08)
  • The Retreat of Goyder's Line (2/2/08)
  • The Fallacy of Reversibility (1/22/08)
  • Peak Oil, Peak Food, Peak Risk (1/9/08)
  • Food Price Inflation (12/17/07)
  • The Connection Between Food Supply and Energy: What Is the Role of Oil Price? (11/23/07)
  • Peak Phosphorus (8/17/07)
  • Agriculture Meets Peak Oil: Soil Association Conference (2/1/07)
  • UK Agriculture, organic farming and relocalisation (9/19/06)
  • Can sustainable farming feed the world? (3/21/06)
  • Global Land Use (6/2/06)
  • How the Energy Crisis Will Help My Diet (7/18/06)
  • Making the Community Better...(a guest post...) (6/2/05)
  • Our oil-laden food chain (6/7/05)
  • A gut reaction to a benefit-cost analysis (7/15/05)
• TheWatt: Energy news, views, interviews
  • Dust-to-dust energy balance of hybrid cars (4/3/06)
  • The Scoop On Dust-To-Dust Energy Cost (4/13/06)
• Timbuktu Chronicles (Emeka Okafor, African impact of sustainable technologies)
  • GardenAfrica (4/08/06)
  • IITA's Post-harvest Engineering Unit (4/26/06)
  • The Sahelian Eco-farm (4/16/06)
• Transition Culture
  • food tag
  • Jonathan Porritt on Peak Oil and Food Production (1/24/07)
• U.S. Food Policy: US food policy and economics from a public interest perspective (Parke Wilde, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts U)
  • Will biofuels starve the poor? (7/9/07)
• WorldChanging
  • Extending the Garden (4/25/06)
  • Making backups (seed vault - 1/14/06)
  • Postcards from the Global Food System (Zaid Hassan) #1 (2/26/05) #2 (3/7/05) #3 (3/31/05)
  • Seed banks and the global crop diversity trust (6/9/05)
  • The Food Less Traveled (6/5/06)

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Hydrology / Water Sustainability & Security

AQUASTAT - FAO Land and Water Development Division

Arid Lands Newsletter - Office of Arid Lands Studies - U Arizona

Arsenic crisis information centre

Arsenic Health Effects Research Program - AH Smith, UC Berkeley

BlueFish

• Library
  • Columbia Basin Irrigation Project - The Second Half

California Farm Water Coalition

• Farm Water Facts

Earth Policy Institute: Building an economy for the earth (Lester R. Brown)

• Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures (2005, L Brown, Earth Policy Institute Amazon)
  • on-line version - TOC (pdf & html)
    • Stabilizing Water Tables (pdf)
• Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress & a Civilization in Trouble (2003, LR Brown, Amazon)
  • on-line version - TOC (pdf & html)
    • Emerging Water Shortages (pdf)
    • Raising Water Productivity (pdf)
• Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (2006, LR Brown, Amazon)
  • o-line version - TOC (pdf & html)
    • Emerging Water Shortages (pdf)

EarthTrends: Environmental Information Portal (water, climate, energy, food, population)

ecological sanitation:

• IWA Ecological Sanitation
• texts:
  • Closing the loop: Ecological sanitation for food security, 2001 (UNDP Publications on Water Resources No. 18, 107 pg pdf)
  • Ecological sanitation: closing the loop, 2001 (pdf)
  • Reasons for and principles of ecological sanitation, 2003 (pdf)
• books:
  • The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters (R George, 2008) - Amazon
    • author's website - reviews
• wiki - ecological sanitation

FAO - Land and Water Development Division

• Agriculture21 Spotlight
  • What's water worth? 2006
• Crops and Drops: Making the best use of water for agriculture - 2002, index
• Improved agricultural water control is key to meeting the world's growing food needs (news)
• texts:
  • Economic valuation of water resources in agriculture From the sectoral to a functional perspective of natural resource management, 2004 pdf
  • Stakeholder-oriented valuation to support water resources management processes: Confronting concepts with local practice, 2006 pdf
• Water at a Glance

Global Water Partnership

IMWI - International Water Management Institute

• CA - Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture
• Environmental Flows newsletter (Asia)
• Water Figures newsletter
• working papers: case studies, data, proceedings, country reports
• World Water Vision

National Academies Water Information Center

NASA - earth observatory

• Drought lowers Lake Mead (11/13/03)

NOAA

• GVI -Global vegetation index

Ogallala Aquifer

• The High Plains Aquifer (update to Environmental Science: The Way the World Works, 7th ed. BJ Nebel RT Wright, html)
• Water-Level Changes in the High Plains Aquifer, Predevelopment to 1994 (USGS)
• Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the High Plains (2006, Ashworth, W Amazon)
  • Seattle Times review (7/9/06)

Pacific Institute - The World's Water (Peter Gleick)

• Publications
  • Desalination, With a Grain of Salt A California Perspective - index
• water data

Resilience Alliance

SalmonRecovery.gov

• Biological Opinions

Stockholm International Water Institute

• Downloads (extensive)
• Let It Reign: The New Water Paradigm for Global Food Security, 2005 (pdf)

Sustaining Water: Population and the Future of Renewable Water Supplies

The Connection: Water and Energy Security (article, AR Hoffman - original)

The Water Page

The World's Water

• Data
• Links (extensive)

TFDD - Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database (Aaron Wolf, Oregon State U)

• Basins at Risk

UN- United Nations

• UNDP
  • Beyond Scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis, Human Development Report 2006 - TOC
    • Statistics
• UNESCO
  • World Water
    • World Water Assessment Programme - Targets
    • WWDR - World Water Development Report
• UNEP Global Environment Outlook
  • Freshwater: meeting our goals, sustaining our future - Geo Year Book 2003
  • Vital Water Graphics
• WHO
  • WSH - Water, Sanitation and Health

USGS Groundwater Information Pages

• Changes in Water Levels and Storage in the High Plains Aquifer, Predevelopment to 2005 Fact Sheet 2007-3029
• Estimated Withdrawals from Principle Aquifers in the United States, 2000 (M Maupin, NL Barber, circular 1279, pdf)
• Ground Water Atlas of the United States
• Ground-Water Depletion Across the Nation (USGS Fact Sheet 103-03)

US Water News - archives

Water Bucket (British Columbia)

• Agriculture & Water

Water Conserve - Water Conservation Portal

Water Partners International

WaterWeb Consortium

Water Well - Watering the future

World Water Council

World Water Forum

Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

• Bulletin 107: Human Population and Freshwater Resources: U.S. Cases and International Perspectives, 2002 - TOC

journals:

• Ecology and Society - journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability (Conservation Ecology)
  • Social Learning in Water Resources Management - special features

texts:

• Can irrigation be sustainable, (Crop Science for addressing water scarcity Symposium, 2004 html)
• Global hydrological cycles and world water resources (Science 213:1068-1072, 2006)
• The Connection Water Series - NPR
• The Future is Drying Up (J Gertner, The New York Times Magazine, 10/21/07)
• The Myth of Owens Valley (Libecap, Gary D., CATO Regulation 28(2), pdf)
• Trajectory shifts in the Artic and Subartic freshwater cycle (Science 213:1061-1066, 2006)
• Water in a Changing World (2001, RB Jackson, SR Carpenter, CN Dahm, et al.,  Issues in Ecology, pdf)
• Water-Energy Relationship (2005, California Energy Commission, pdf)
• Water Scarcity: Fact or Fiction (2004, FR Rijsberman, 4th Intl Crop Sci Congress, html, pdf)

books:

• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (1993, Marc Reisner) Amazon
• Water: A Natural History
  • review - pdf
• When Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century (2006, Fred Pearce) Amazon
  • Financial Sense Online interview (6/10/06)
  • Nature review
  • Not a drop to drink  - 8/06 Salon book review
  • review - ReadySteadyBook 7/3/06
  • review - Eclectic Closet 6/12/06
  • review - Science 6/25/06
• Wisconsin's Water Library - Is Water Becoming Scarce? - book list

people:

• Feinstein, Senator Dianne
  • California Water Update, 2/17/05
• Pearce, Fred
  • California Literary Review 8/26/06
  • When Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century (2006, Fred Pearce) Amazon
    • Financial Sense Online interview (6/10/06)
    • Nature review
• Ravenscroft, Peter - Environmental Processes research cluster, U Cambridge Dept. Geography (groundwater aresenic)
• Reisner, Mark
  • Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water 1993(Amazon)
    • review

blogs:

• AgWeb
  • Water Supply Important Ag Issue Ahead (8/1/06)
• BenettOnTalk
  • The future water wars (8/7/06)
• Down to Earth: science and engineering of natural systems (Daniel Collins, UW-Madison post-doc)
  • The curse of the One Rabbit: Tree rings corroborate Aztec folklore (10/14/06)
  • Trends in 20th century drought over the U.S. (10/12/06)
  • Drought and pinyon pine populations (10/11/06)
  • Insufficient water to meet needs (10/6/06)
• EnergyBulletin
  • Water shortages - Aug 9 (8/8/06)
• FuturePundit
  • US West Facing Long Drought? (10/21/07)
  • Affordable Energy can solve water shortages (5/29/06)
• GreenBiz.com - The Allenby Column
  • Phoenix Environmentalism: Part II (12/05)
• GristMill
  • When Rivers Run Dry (5/25/06)
• Muck and Mystery
  • All Wet (8/6/06)
  • Dirty Business  (3/21/06)
• MotherPie: Culture Life Art Median
  • Earth Needs Mothering: Dead Trees and Dry Rivers... (8/15/06)
• Resilience Science (McGill University)
  • Water in the American West: Learning from Crisis (10/22/07)
  • Assessing the state of agricultural water management (8/23/06)
  • Complicated ecological tradeoffs from water & agriculture (8/16/06)
  • Green water efficiency in farming (3/24/06)
  • Using strategic tree planting to conserve water (8/28/06)
  • Water, ecosystem services, and technology (8/25/06)
• Salon
  • Not a drop to drink (book review - 8/06)
• The Oil Drum
  • comments related to water scarcity
    • 8/6/06
• water is life
  • The Bottled Water Lie (10/27/06)
  • Water scarcity and biofuel (10/20/06)
  • Kansas aquifer going dry (10/17/06)
  • Water at risk for millions due to melting (10/13/06)
  • India digs deeper / Wells drying up (9/30/06)
  • Globalization - Time to take action (8/8/06)

wiki:

• aquifer
  • Ogallala Aquifer
• Groundwater
• Hydrogeology

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Soils & Soil Systems

Bibliographies:

• The Holistic Agriculture Library (on-line out-of-print texts, excerpts of in-print texts, soil or soil related, Steve Solomon)

ACT - African Conservation Tillage Network

• Information Series

carbon sequestration:

• EPA - Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture and Forestry

Consortium for Agricultural Soils Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases (CASMGS)

• Soil Carbon Center (Kansas State)
  • Greenhouse Gases & Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture and Forestry (3rd USDA Symposium, 2005)
    • Agriculture’s Role in Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases (presentation pdf)
• Montana State U.
  • Outreach publications
  • Publications

EarthTrends - WRI

• Drylands, people, and ecosystem goods and services: A web-based geospatial analysis, 2003
• Unappreciated Gifts: Recognizing the value of drylands

FAO

• Agriculture21 Spotlight
  • Conservation agriculture, 2006
  • The life in soil, 2000
• FAO Soils Bulletins
  • The importance of soil organic matter: Key to drought-resistant soil and sustained food production (80, pdf)
• Land and Water development division
  • Soil Biodiversity Portal: Soil Health for Food Security

fertilizers:

• EPRIDA: Earth . People . Research . Innovation . Development . Acknowledgement
  • Hydrogen Production With Carbon Sequestration: A New Development to Achieve Enhanced Carbon Storage and Reduction of Greenhouse Gases While Producing Hydrogen and Building Soil Fertility
• FIPR - Florida Institute of Phosphate Research
  • Phosphate primer
  • Long-range perspectives on inorganic fertilizers in global agriculture (1999, V Smil, pdf)
• IFA - International Fertilizer Association
  • Statistics - Fertilizer Indicators - Raw material reserves
• IFDC - International Fertilizer Development Center - International Center for Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development
  • International fertilizer statistics (pdf)
• PPI-PPIC - Potash & Phosphate Institute
  • Fertilizer contributions to crop yield (html)

blogs:

• Muck and Mystery
  • Fossil Fertilizer (4/8/06)
  • Rock Fertilizer (4/14/06)

GlobalSoilMap.net

IFDC - International Fertilizer Development Center - International Center for Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development

INVAM (International Culture Collection of (Vesicular) Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi)

ISRIC - World Soil Information

IUSS - International Union of Soil Sciences

Managing Wholes: Creating a future that works (Peter Donovan)

• Biological soil crusts: How well do they really protect soil?
• Conflict resolution and consensus building
  • Beyond Conflict to Consensus: An Introductory Learning Manual (Bob Chadwick)
• Ecosystem function: nature's basic processes and how they work - indexes to articles
  • Fundamental ecosystem processes and how they work
  • Brittle and nonbrittle ecosystems
  • Grazing and overgrazing
  • Improving soil health and building new soil
  • Working with soil life
• Environmental restoration: healing damaged land
• Paradigms and decision making
• Recommended books
• Papers:
  • Grazing management for healthy soils (Christine Jones, New South Wales Dept. Natural Resources, html)
  • How to build new topsoil (Christine Jones, New South Wales Dept. Natural Resources, html)
  • Researcher on ancient soils sees key role for grasslands in carbon balance (html)

manures:

• Applying Manure on Perennial Forage, 2006 (pdf)
  • Manure as a source of nutrients
• Information relating to the possible use of humanure (human feces) and urine for forest fertilization (html)
• Poop culture: How America is shaped by its grossest national product (Amazon)
  • Poop culture blog
    • How much poop does America flush (4/25/07)
• TP-2 Compost Toilets

Mycorrhizal Information Exchange

• monthly literature search results
• recent reviews

Nemaplex - UC Davis

• Nematology 100

Organic-Fertilizer.info

People:

Cambardella, Cynthia A,  Agricultural Land and Watershed Management Research Unit, National Soil Tilth Laboratory (NSTL)

Clapperton, M. Jill (Rhizosphere Ecology, Lethbridge Research Centre)

• Managing the soil as a habitat for soil biological fertility (2004, pdf)
• Soil Biology in the Key to Healthy Soil and the Direct-Seeding Advantage (2002, html)
• Uncovering the real dirt on no-till (pdf, 2nd pdf)
• Worm Watch

Jones, Christine - Botanist, New South Wales Dept. Natural Resources

• Grazing management for healthy soils (html)
• How to build new topsoil (html)
• Recognise, Relate, Innovate (pdf)

Kirchmann, Holger, Dept of Soil Sciences, Swedish Agricultural University

• Nutrients in Organic Farming – Are there advantages from the exclusive use of organic manures and untreated minerals? (html, html2, pdf)
• Possibilities for Improving Nitrogen Use From Organic Materials in Agricultural Cropping Systems (AMBIO, html, pdf)
• counter - Whey the "Experts" are wrong: Modern organic farming is better (pdf)

Lehmann, Johannes, soil fertility management / soil biogeochemistry

• Soil Fertility Management & Soil Biogeochemistry
  • Bio-char
  • Terra Preta de Indio

Lotter, Donald W.

• EarthAware: Environmental Awareness Software, webpage
• New Tests of Soil Quality: Evaluating the Health of Your Soil's Microbial Community, 1997, html
• Organic Agriculture (J Sust Agric, 2003, pdf)
• The performance of organic and conventional cropping systems in an extreme climate year (Amer J Altern Agric 18(2), 2003, pdf)

Lowenfels, Jeff (Alaska Humus)

• Teaming With Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to Using the Soil Food Web

Montgomery, David - U of Wash Geomorphological Research Group

• Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, 2007 (Amazon)
• Is agriculture eroding civilization's foundation? (GSA Today 17(10):4-9, 10/07 pdf)
• Protecting the Soil Beneath (interview, 08) (Env Sci Tech 42(9):3129-3132 html pdf)
• Soil erosion and agricultural sustainability (PNAS 104(33):13268-13272, 2007 pdf )

Retallack, Greg (Professor, paleopedology & palesols, University of Oregon) - research synopsis

• Soils of the Past, 2^nd ed, 2001 (Amazon)
• Commission of Paleopedology

Shachar-Hill, Yair (Michigan State U)

SARE - Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education - USDA

• Publications (index - many on-line)
  • Building Soils for Better Crops, 2^nd ed., Fred Magdoff, Harold van Es, 2000 (4.2Mb pdf)

Soil biodiversity:

• Exploring Microbial Diversity--A Vast Below (TP Curtis, WT Sloan  Science 309(5739):1331 - 1333, 2005)
• The diversity and biogeography of soil bacterial communities (PNAS, 2006)

Invasive Species - Institute of Ecosystem Studies

• Invasion of North Temperate Forest Soils by Exotic Earthworms (html)

Soil Association (UK)

Soil Foodweb Canada

• Basic concepts of the soil foodweb

SOM - Soil Organic Matter

• What Does Organic Matter Do In Soil? (Noble Foundation, html)

Soil Science Education Home Page (NASA Globe)

Soil Quality - NRCS Soils

Soil Quality: The Functional Value and Stability of Soil Resources

Soil Taxonomy

• The Twelve Soil Orders - U Idaho Dept. of Plant, Soil & Entomological Scienrces

South Dakota No-till Association

terra preta:

• Cornell - Soil biogeochemistry - fertility - nutrient cycling - organic matter (Johannes Lehmann)
  • Bio-char
  • Terra Preta de Indio
• Hypography Science Forums - terra preta thread
• Saving The Planet While Saving The Farm: How soil carbonization could save the planet while it saves the family farm (Scott Bidstrup)
• Terra Preta Web Site

texts, presentations:

• Barren soil is starving Africans, Nature news 3/31/06
• Carbon Sequestration in Soils, Science 284(5423)2095, 1999 (html)
• Cheap biofuel feedstocks take a toll on soil health, The New Farm 9/13/07
• CONSERVATION IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE: SOIL EROSION AND RUNOFF FROM CROPLAND, 2003 (pdf)
• Cultivating beneficial soil fungi to increase yields (The New Farm, Research Update, 4/04)
• Global Consequences of Land Use (Science 308(5734):570-75, 2005, html)
• Glomalin: A Manageable Soil Glue (S. Wright, pdf)
• Hunger in Africa: the link between unhealthy people and unhealthy soils (Lancet 365:424-44, 2005 pdf)
• Points of View: Maintaining soil fertility in Africa New Agriculturist
• My-Core-What? (The New Farm, Fact Sheet, 9/03)
• Never-till' Farming--A Boon to the Environment (Heartland Institute, Environment News, 7/03)
• Organic Matter Management (U Minnesota, BU-07402, 2002)
• Soil Biology & Soil Management (U Minnesota BU-07403, 2000)
• Soil food web - opening the lid of the black box (Bart Anderson, Greenest Before Dawn: Thinking about Sustainability, Energy Bulletin 2nd source)
• Soil Management for Small Farms, 2000 (WSU EB1895 pdf)
• Soil and Trouble (2004, set of papers on soil - Science index)
• Working with Mycorrhizas in Forestry and Agriculture (M Brundrett, N Bougher, B Dell, T Grove, N Malajczuk, CSIRO book index)
  • Arbuscular mycorrhizas - Section 3

UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme

• GEO Data Portal
  • Lithosphere
• World Environment Day 2006 - Deserts and Desertification

USDA

ARS National Programs - Soil Resource Management

• Glomalin: Hiding Place for a Third of the World's Stored Soil Carbon (2002, html)
• Glomalin: Materials and methods for analysis (S. Wright, K Nichols, 2005,  html)

Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory

NRCS

• Interpreting Indicators of Rangeland Health, 2005 (Technical Reference 1734-6 pdf)
• Soil Quality Publications - index
• World Soil Resources - Map Index

Yeomansplow - keyline system - wiki

• Priority One: Together we can beat global warming, 2005 - TOC
• The Keyline Plan - TOC 
• research proposal - pdf

books:

• Biological Approaches to Sustainable Soil Systems, 2006. N Uphoff, AS Ball, E Fernandes et al., eds.Series: Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment Volume: 113 CRC Press TOC
• Building Soils for Better Crops, 2^nd ed., Fred Magdoff, Harold van Es, 2000 (4.2Mb pdf)
• Cornell Soil Health Assessment Manual, 2007 (pdf)
• Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil, Daniel Hillel, 1992 (Amazon)
• The Soil Biology Primer (on-line version, USDA NRCS)

Holistic Agriculture Library (out of print books on-line - Steve Solomon)

courses:

• Basic Soil Science - Soil 2125, 1125 & 5125 (U Minnesota)
  • Web Laboratory Units

blogs:

• Bitter Greens Journal
  • Down and dirty: the fate of soil in industrial society (8/2/05)
• celsias
  • Soil - Our Financial Institution (1/22/07)
• Green Car Congress
  • Thawing permafrost a significant source of carbon (6/15/06)
• Muck And Mystery
  • Soil Mining (5/26/08)
  • Old Tech (3/31/08) carbon sequestration in soils
  • C Cyle (3/23/08)
  • Excited Soil (9/11/07)
  • Soiled Stories (1/23/07)
  • That's Better (12/7/06) soil energy flow of native vs. monoculture ecosystems
  • Black is Back (8/11/06)
  • Dead Dirt (3/31/06)
  • Grassland (2/07/06)
  • Heavy Nitrogen (4/9/06) - fungi in nitrogen cycling
  • Horse Puckey (2/06/06)
  • More About Muck (3/05/06)
  • Nitrogen Transport (6/8/05)
  • Using Tera Preta increase soil resilience (8/11/06)
• SANET-MG
  • On-farm production of AM fungus inoculum (5/9/06, Bioresource Technology 97(6):809-818, 2006)
• Soil News
• Soil Science Journal Club (U West Australia)
• The Crumb Trail (dead domain as of 12/05)
  • Cereal Killer (3/27/04)
  • Dirt Glue (10/31/03)
  • Earthy Breath (6/06/05)
  • Mycorrhizosphere (10/8/05)
  • Plowman's Folly (3/15/04) - refers to No-till farming offers a quick fix to help ward off host of global problems (Ohio State press release)
  • Talking Dirty (6/16/04) - Wounding Earth's Fragile Skin (Science 304:1616-1618 html)
  • Twice as Nice (6/12/04)
• Resilience Science (Garry Peterson, McGill)
  • Decreasing vulnerability to desertification (12/16/06)
  • Mapping global soil degradation (4/27/06)
• terra central Soil: the crossroads of the environment
  • Soil: The foundation of the economy (3/10/07)
• The Oil Drum
  • Terra Preta: Biochar And The MEGO Effect (9/28/08)
  • Agriculture Meets Peak Oil: Soil Association Conference (2/1/07)
• Transect Points - Philip Small, Soil Scientist, Spokane, WA
  • New Gardening with Biochar FAQ (5/23/08)
  • The Charcoal Vision (4/10/08)
  • Soil organisms help ranchers (3/30/08)
  • WSU Biochar Research (3/28/08)
  • Stop Polluting My Biosolids (3/16/08)
  • Redox Cascade (9/10/07)
  • Agrichar trials in NSW (6/13/07)
  • Agrichar: In the news May 15th (5/17/07)
  • Soil conference on non-CO2 gas emissions (5/14/07)
  • Agrichar future (5/13/07)
  • Review: Soil Health Assessment Training Manual (4/22/07)
  • Soil as a living system (5/12/07)
  • Biofuel demand pencils out to damaged soil (5/9/07)
  • AgChar Conference Reviews (5/6/07)
  • Carbon sequestration for Farm, Forest Income (5/08/07)
  • Review: Soil Health Assessment Training Manual (4/22/07)
  • Soils and its role in a changing climate (2/14/07)
  • Teaming with Microbes Arrived Today (1/25/07)
  • NRCS Assessment of US Land Use, Erosion, Wetlands (1/23/07)
  • The Scoop on Dirt (A Review) (1/21/07)
  • Grazing tool for managing riparian buffers (2/12/06)
  • New organic garden book: Teaming With Microbes (1/19/06)
  • Science and nitrogen use efficiency (1/24/06)
  • Smithsonian soil exhibit (3/12/06)
• WorldChanging
  • Terra preta: Black is the new green (7/14/06)

Encyclopedia of the Earth

• Anthropogenic biomes
  • Online map viewers

Wikipedia: Soil Science

• Biogeochemical cycle
  • carbon cycle
  • nitrogen cycle
  • water cycle
• Environmental soil science
  • Climate change and agriculture
• Soil life
• WikiProject Soil

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Energy Sustainability

25x25

• Impacts on U.S. Energy Expenditures of Increasing Renewable Energy Use (Rand Technical Report TR-384-EFC pdf)
• 25% Renewable Energy for the United States By 2025: Agricultural and Economic Impacts (BC English, DG De La Torre Ugarte, K Jensen, C Hellwinckel, J Menard, B Wilson, R Roberts, M Walsh, 11/06, Ag Economics U Tenn, pdf)

Agriculture as a Producer and Consumer of Energy

Abelard Public Education Site

ACEEE - American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy

• Consumer Resources
• Energy Efficiency in Agriculture
• GreenerCars.com
• Research Reports
  • IE053 Potential Energy Efficiency Savings in the Agriculture Sector (pdf)
  • IE052 On-Farm Energy Use Characterizations, 2005 (pdf)
  • IE051 Energy Efficiency Programs in Agriculture: Design, Success, and Lessons Learned (pdf)
  • IE981 Energy Usage in the Food Industry: A Study
  • ASAP-5/ACEEE-A051 Leading the Way: Continued Opportunities for New State Appliance and Equipment Efficiency Standards (1/05, pdf)
• Energy Efficiency in Agriculture

AG Energy Work Group - American Agriculture: Powering the Future

• 25 by 25 Update (Green Car Congress blog, 7/05)

AllDocs.Info

• Renewable Energy (2,459 documents 5/07)

APS Physics

• Energy = Future: Think Efficiency, 2008 - 112 pg pdf  executive summary - pdf

AP6 - Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate

ASPO: Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (Colin Campbell, Kjell Aleklett)

ASPO USA: Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas - USA

• Library
• Denver World Oil Conference, 11/10/05
  • Powerpoints
  • The Oil Drum blog
    • First morning of the Conference
    • ASPO-USA Denver Conference Report (Thursday)
    • ASPO-USA Denver Conference Report (Friday)

Arguments:

Con:

• Michael Lynch: The Last Skeptic? (5/05, Peak Oil Optimist)
• More Stuff to Piss Off the Peak Oil Crowd (11/04, html Dave's Web Center for an Informed America)
• "Peak Oil:" Welcome to the media's new version of shark attacks (8/05, html, Freakonomics)

bp

• Statistical review of world energy

batteries:

• Guardian
  • The beauty of bendable batteries (2/24/06)

BERR: UK Dept for Business Enterprise & Regulatory Reform

• Energy Flow Chart, 2007 pdf

Biofuels:

25x25

• 25x25: Agriculture’s Role in Ensuring U.S. Energy Independence (Read Smith, St. John, pdf)

ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service

• Biodiesel: A Primer (2004, html, pdf)
• Biodiesel: The Sustainability Dimension (2006, pdf)

BESS: Biofuel Energy Systems Simulator - U Nebraska

biodiesel:

• Biodiesel - National Biodiesel Board
  • links - academia
• Biodiesel Education - U Idaho
• Biodiesel enthusiasts have accidentally invented the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth (Monbiot.com 12/6/05)
• BiodieselNow.com
  • forums
• Golden Fuel Systems (Greasel Conversions)
• UNH Biodiesel Group
  • Widescale Biodiesel Production from Algae (8/04)

Bioenergy Wiki

• Technologies
  • Sustainability
    • Life-cycle analysis

Bioethanol (UK)

biomass:

• Algae-l listserve archives
• Biomass Program - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy - US Dept of Energy
  • Biomass as Feedstock for a Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industry: The Technical Feasibility of a Billion-Ton Annual Supply (2005, pdf)
  • Information Resources
    • State Biomass Contacts
• NREL
  • A Look Back at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Aquatic Species Program: Biodiesel from Algae (1998, pdf)
• PSA - Phycological Society of America (algae)

  Wikipedia - Algaculture

butanol:

• Environmental Energy Inc.
• Wikipedia - butanol fuel

CEPE - Centre for Energy Policy and Economics

• books
  • 2000 Watt Society - pdf
• research projects - old site
  • Steps towards a 2000 Watt society - html

Earth Policy Institute - Eco-Economy Updates

• Is World Oil Production Peaking? (2007)
  • data

EMPA Technology and Society Lab

• Life Cycle Assessment and Modeling - Energy Products
  • Environmental Assessment of Biofuels
    • Executive Summary (pdf)

Energy Watch Group

• Coal: Resources and Future Production (2007, pdf)
• Crude Oil: The Supply Outlook (2007, pdf)
• Uranium Resources and Nuclear Energy (2006, pdf)

Eprida

• Hydrogen production with carbon sequestration

ethanol:

• A Rebuttal to “Ethanol Fuels: Energy, Economics and Environmental Impacts” by D. Pimentel (pdf, Michael S. Graboski, Colorado School of Mines Dr. John McClelland National Corn Growers Association  Ethanol & Coproducts)
  • Energy balance studies (index - National Corn Growers Association)
• Biofuels: Energy Balance (html, Environmental and Energy Study Institute)
• Carbon and energy balances for a range of biofuels options (2003, pdf)
• Energy and greenhouse gas emissions for bioethanol production from wheat grain and sugar beet (2003, pdf)
• Estimating the Net Energy Balance of Corn Ethanol (html, 1995- Governors' Ethanol Coalition)
• Ethanol Fuels: Energy, Economics and Environmental Impacts (pdf, D. Pimentel, Natural Resources Research, 12:2, 2003, Ethanol - Just Another Dirty Fuel, Energy Justice Network)
• Fuel's gold: Turning corn into ethanol may not be worth it (8/05, Richard A. Lovett,  html)
• Is ethanol energy-efficient? (html - links Journey to Forever)
• Net energy of fuel ethanol: Time for a reality check (BE Dale, 8/23/05 presentation pdf)
• The 2001 Net Energy Balance of Corn - Ethanol (pdf)
• The Economic Feasibility of Ethanol Production from Sugar in the United States, 7/06 (USDA OCE, pdf)
• The Energy Balance of Corn Ethanol: An Update (Shapouri, H, JA Duffield, M Wang, USDA AER No. 813, 2002, pdf)
• The Energetics of Ethanol: An Introduction and Link to Studies (html, David Morris, links The New Rules Project: Institute for Local Self-Reliance)
• The False Hope of Biofuels: For energy and environmental reasons, Ethanol will never replace gasoline (J Jordan J Powell, PetroleumWorld 7/7/06, Washington Post 7/2/06)
• Thermodynamics of the Corn-Ethanol Biofuel Cycle (html, TW Patzek Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 23(6), 519-567, 2004)
• World Ethanol Outlook: Analysis and Outlook, 2003 (METI - Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan, C Berg, pdf)

• Patzek, Tad W. (Civil & Environmental Engr, UC Berkeley)
  • CE24 Sustainable Energy Sources: Solar, Biomass, and...Conservation (S2005)
  • CE24 Hydrogen Economy: The Good, Bad, and Ugly (F2003)
  • CE24: Clean Energy for the Future? Says Who? (S2003)
  • Biofuel Literature
  • Biofuel/Sustainability Papers
  • Recent Papers:
    • Ethanol Production Using Corn, Switchgrass, and Wood; Biodiesel Production Using Soybean and Sunflower (Nat Resource Res 14(1):65-76, pdf)
    • Thermodynamics of the Corn-Ethanol Biofuel Cycle
    • Thermodynamics of Energy Production From Biomass

BlueFire Ethanol

blogs - ethanol:

• ALTERNATIVE ENERGY BLOG - Solar-Energy-Wind-Power.com
  • Is Ethanol / E85 Fuel the Solution? (7/26/06)
• FuturePundit - energy-biomass heading
  • Ethanol Driving Up Corn Prices (1/27/07)
  • Stanford Expert Sees Rush to Ethanol as Premature (1/25/07)
  • Monocultures Not Best Choices For Biomass Energy (12/07/06)
  • Ethanol demand driving farmers from wheat to corn (9/19/06)
  • Ethanol Seen As Cheaper Than Gasoline (8/7/06)
  • Brazil Gets 40 Percent Of Gas Vehicle Fuel From Ethanol (8/20/06) (52% of total is diesel)
  • Process Cuts Corn To Ethanol Conversion Cost (9/19/06)
• Gristmill
  • Give Green, Go Yellow: How cash and corporate pressure pushed ethanol to the fore (12/6/06)
  • Biofuel Skeptic Extraordinaire An interview with David Pimentel (12/8/06)
• JUICE: Alternate Fuels World
• R-Squared (Robert Rapier)
  • A Conversation with Vinod Khosla (7/29/06)
  • Biodiesel - King of Alternative Fuels (3/27/06)
  • Imagining the Future of Gasoline (Vinod Khosla responds - 8/8/06)
• The Cost of Energy (Lou Grinzo)
  • The wonders of algae (4/06)
  • downloads - spreadsheets, pdfs
• The Ergosphere
  • Ethanol Mirage (html, 9/05)
  • Ethanol Mirage II (html, 9/05)
  • Open letter to Vinod Khosla (7/30/06)
• The Oil Drum
  • Biofuels: Bring back the Prairies (12/8/06)
  • Wither Cellulosic Ethanol? (8/16/06)
  • A conversation with Vinod Khosta (7/31/06)
  • Khosla Responds: "Imagining the Future of Gasoline: Reality or Blue-sky Dreaming?" (8/9/06)
  • Pond Scum or Planet Savers (1/16/06 - algae)

European Environment Agency

• How much bioenergy can Europe produce without harming the environment? (EEA Report 7/2006 pdf)

GTZ

• Biofuels for Transportation: Global Potential and Implications for Sustainable Agriculture and Energy in the 21st Century (pdf)
• International fuel prices

Journey to Forever - Biofuels - Online Biofuels Library

Kentucky Enrichment (Neal Van Milligen)

OECD - Roundtable on Sustainable Development

• Biofuels: Is the cure worse than the disease? 2007 ( R Doornbosch, R Steenblik, 57 pg pdf) (Financial Times)

Pacific Regional Biomass Energy Partnership

Piedmont biofuels

• pertinent blogs

pyrolysis

• 7. The research progress of biomass pyrolysis processes (Integrated energy systems in China TOC - FAO 1994, html)

REAP - Canada (Resource Efficient Agricultural Production)

• Bioheat - Grass Biofuel Pellets
• Reports & Newsletters
  • The Potential of C4 Perennial Grasses for Developing a Global BIOHEAT Industry (Crit Rev Plant Sci 24(5-6):461-495, 2005, link)

Renewable Energy in History: An overview of energy types by eras of technology (Bill Kovarik)

UNH Biodiesel Group

• Widescale Biodiesel Production from Algae - html

USDA

• Office of the Chief Economist
  • U.S. Agriculture and the Emerging Bioeconomy, 10/12/06 doc
  • Energy and Agriculture - 2007 Farm Bill Theme Paper, 8/06 doc

woodgas:

• Gengas - Construction of a Simplified Wood Gas Generator for Fueling Internal Combustion Engines in a Petroleum emergency - TOC
• Woodgas
  • Fuel Density
  • Proximate and Ultimate Analysis

Worldwatch Institute

• Worldwatch Biofuels Project

Texts: (biofuels)

• Biofuels for Transportation: Global Potential and Implications for Sustainable Agriculture and Energy in the 21st Century, 2006 (WRI, extended summary pdf, short summary pdf)
• Choices (publication of American Agricultural Economics Association)
  • Biofuels: Developing new energy sources from Agriculture (Choices 21(1), 2006)
• International resource costs of biodiesel and bioethanol (pdf)
• Life Cycle Inventory of Biodiesel and Petroleum Diesel for Use in an Urban Bus - 1998,  pdf
• Looking at Biofuels and Bioenergy (letters Science 312:1743-1748, 2006)
• The Economic Feasibility of Ethanol Production from Sugar in the United States, 2006 (USDA, 46 pg. pdf)
• Potential for Biofuels for Transport in Developing Countries October, 2005 (World Bank documents, M Kojima, T Johnson, 182 pg pdf)

blogs (biofuels):

• BioConversion Blog (C Scott Miller)
  • Ethanol Net Energy Balance - A Response to Dr. Pimental (7/20/06)
  • European Report on Bioenergy and the Environment (7/23/06)
• FSU - Financial Sense University
  • Ethanol Investing: Counterpoint (Robert Rapier, 6/23/06)
• Future Pundit
  • Coal Corn Ethanol Plants Seen As Emerging Trend (3/25/06)
  • On Biomass Ethanol Price Subsidies (6/22/06)
• GoG2G: Converting Green to Green - Konrad Imielinski
  • Looking into the EROEI of Ethanol (7/27/06)
  •  
• Green Car Congress
  • DuPont, BP and British Sugar Testify on Biofuels and Biobutanol before the House of Lords (8/1/06)
• Muck and Mystery
  • More Anti-Corn (7/15/06)
  • STFU (7/15/06)
• New America Media
  • Corn Rush - 'Ethanol fever" needs a reality check (7/13/06)
• Resource Insights
  • Nonrenewable renewables: The hidden life of biofuels (6/18/06)
• R-Squared (Robert Rapier, chemical engr.)
  • Bio-butanol (5/1/06)
  • Biodiesel: King of Alternative Fuels (3/27/06)
  • E85: Spinning Our Wheels (5/25/06) - expanded from Oil Drum post
  • Ethanol from Biomass: A Sustainable Option? (3/25/06)
  • Grain-derived Ethanol: The Emperor's New Clothes (3/23/06)
  • How Reliable are Those USDA Ethanol Studies (3/30/06)
  • Improving the Prospects for Grain Ethanol (3/24/06)
  • Kicking the Oil Habit Road Trip (7/22/06)
  • Vinod Khosla Debunked (7/24/06)
• The Oil Drum
  • Brown Power (3/4/06)
  • E85: Spinning our Wheels (5/24/06)
  • Life in a Grass House (3/7/06)
  • Vinod Khosla Debunked: Ethanol is NOT the Answer (7/25/06)
  • Will biofuels always be hopeless? (5/26/06)

Buildings:

Architecture 2030 (New Energy Economy)

• Open letter to the architecture, planning and building community

BuildingGreen.com

BuiltGreen

BuiltGreenWashington

CEE - Residential Sector (Consortium for Energy Efficiency)

Ed Mazria Architecture 2030  - Mazria Odems Dzurec: Architects Planning Conservation

• Blueprint for Disaster? (Summer 2005, Living Green, OnEarth pdf2 (Tim Folger, author))
• How Architects can Reverse Global Warming: A Conversation with Edward Mazria, AIA (2/06, Architectural Record)
• It's the Architecture, Stupid! (May/June 2003 Solar Today pdf2)
• The Building You're In Fuels Global Warming (LA Times 3/4/04, Common Dreams News Center html)
• Turning Down the Global Thermostat (10/03, MetropolilsMag pdf)
• The Passive Solar Energy Book: A Complete Guide to Passive Solar Home, Greenhouse and Building Design (1979, Amazon)

Northwest EcoBuilding Guild

Rocky Mountain Institute

• Green development links
• Home Resource Efficiency (index)
  • Household Energy Efficiency—Home Energy Briefs (index)
• RMI/ENSAR Built Environment Team

Smart Communities Network

Sustainable Building Technical Manual: Green Building Design, Construction, and Operations (1996, pdf)

US DOE Building Technologies Program

US EPA - Green Buildings

• Buildings and the Environment: A Statistical Summary (2004, pdf)
• Why Build green?

US Green Building Council - LEED - Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

• LEED for New Construction
• LEED for Existing Buildings

blogs:

• ISIS
  • The Blue Revolution: Air Condition and Energy from Deep Waters of Lakes and Oceans (7/28/06)
• Resilience Science
  • Why green building has spread (6/23/06)

CACOR - Canadian Association for the Club of Rome

• 2005 Proceedings (pdf) - The Age of Oil

Carbon Mitigation Initiative (Princeton)

• Socolow, Robert

Center for Energy and Environmental Studies (CEES) - Boston University

• Cleveland, Cutler (ecological economics, petroleum supply, energy policy - Oil Analytics)
  • Biophysical Constraints to Economic Growth
  • Hydrocarbons and the evolution of human culture
• Kaufman, Robert (world oil markets, ecological economics - Oil Analytics)

Coal:

Coal

coal fires: (2-3% of global CO₂ production)

• Coal Fires (Anupma Prakash)
• ITC's Coal Fire Homepage

Coal River Mountain Watch: Remembering the Past, Working for the Future

EIA Coal - market prices

Goodell, Jeff

• Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future (2006, Amazon) - publisher webpage
  • review - sustainablog (4/4/06)
  • review - Washington Times 8/13/06
  • review - New York Times Book Review - 6/25/06
• Black Gold or Black Death? (New York Times Op-ed 1/4/06)
• Gristmill interview - 7/14/06

• The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of our Coal-Mines (html) Jevons, William Stanley, 1866, theory of marginal utility
• The Oil Drum
  • Richard Heinberg: Coal in the United States (5/29/08)

The Community Solution: What are we going to do as the oil runs out?

• First Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions (presentations on-line)
• Second Conference
• Third Conference
• Plan C: Curtailment, Cooperation, and Community (pdf)

Crude oil:

prices:

• Crude Oil Price Bulletins - Plains All American Pipeline
• FreeCharts.com
  • unleaded gasoline
• EIA International Energy Price Information
  • This Week In Petroleum
• Federal Reserve Board
  • The peak oil debate, 2009 - pdf
• WTRG Economics - Analysis, planning, forecast and data services for energy producers and consumers
  • NYMEX crude oil futures
  • NYMEX gasoline futures
  • NYMEX natural gas futures
  • rig counts

Die Off

Jacob Lund Fisker - webmaster CV

• Food, Land, Population and the US Economy (D Pimentel, M Giampietro, 1994)
• Energetic Limits to Growth
• The Death of the Oil Economy
• The Post-Petroleum Paradigm -- and Population
• The World Petroleum Lifecycle
• The Tightening Conflict: Population, energy use and the ecology of agriculture (M Giampietro, D Pimentel (1994) 2nd site)

Dry Dipstick

EarthTrends: Environmental Information Portal (water, climate, energy, food, population)

Eclipse Now

• Agriculture and Peak Oil
• The main problem with alternatives to oil

economics:

• Economic Research Institute
  • The U.S., World and Persian Gulf Oil War Not About Oil, All About Oil (1/03)
• ITF - Interagency Task Force - US Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  • Interim Report on Crude Oil, 2008 pdf

EESI - Environmental and Energy Study Institute

• Agriculture & Energy
  • Biofuels
  • BCO Newsletter: Bioenergy - Climate Protection - Oil Reduction (linked individually)

EnergizeAmerica

• Energize America Drafts

Energy Atlas - Renewable Energy Atlas of the West

• ID edition (pdf)
• WA edition (pdf)

Energy Crossroads (Lawrence Livermore labs link collection)

Energy Future Coalition

Energy Information Administration (EIA) - US DOE

• Country analysis briefs
  • US (html)
• Environment - Emissions data
  • Fuel and Energy Emission Coefficients (html)
• International
• Data Publications - Natural Gas
• Data Publications - Petroleum
  • US Refinery Operations
• Transportation Energy Model of the World Energy Projection System (TEM)
  • Documentation (pdf)
• Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program - technical assistance
  • Average Electricity Factors by State and Region (html)
  • Fuel and Energy Source Codes and Emission Coefficients (html)

Energy - The Earth Institute, Columbia U

• Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy
  • faculty papers
• Lackner, Klaus
  • Energy and clean coal (2004, pdf)

Engelbart's Colloquim: the unfinished revolution (Bootstrap Institute, Stanford, 2000)

• The next frontier - How big is big?
• State of the world's energy supply Ed Kinderman
• Second set of considerations about the state of the world’s energy supply Hewitt Crane

Environmental Literacy Council

• Energy

eroi / eroei:

• The Oil Drum
  • Should EROEI be the most important criterion our society uses to decide how it meets its energy needs? (8/20/08)
  • 10 Fundamental Principles of Net Energy Analysis (7/31/08)
  • At $100 Oil - What Can the Scientist Say to the Investor? (1/4/08)
  • Why EROI Matters (Part 1 of 5) (4/1/08) Charles Hall, SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
  • EROI on the Web part 2 of 5, (Provisional Results Summary, Imported Oil, Natural Gas) (4/8/08)
  • Unconventional Oil: Tar Sands and Shale Oil - EROI on the Web, Part 3 of 5 (4/15/08)
  • The Energy Return of Nuclear Power (EROI on the Web-Part IV) (4/22/08)
  • Wave/Geothermal - Energy Return on Investment (EROI) Part 5 (5/14/08)

FAO Bioenergy

FishNick - Food Service Technology Center (restaurant energy usage)

fuel cells:

• EFCF - European Fuel Cell Forum
  • reports

gasoline:

• Charles F. Kettering and the 1921 Discovery of Tetraethyl Lead In the Context of Technological Alternatives (Bill Kovarik, Ph.D. html)
• ChemCases.com - Fuels and Society
• Ethyl War: Forbidden fuel and public poison (Bill Kovarik)
• Henry Ford, Charles Kettering and the "Fuel of the Future" (Bill Kovarik, Ph.D. html)

GCEP - Stanford University Global Climate & Energy Project

• An Assessment of Advanced Transportation Research Opportunities, 2006 (pdf)
• An Assessment of Biomass Feedstock and Conversion Research Opportunities, 2005 (pdf)
• An Assessment of Carbon Capture Technology and Research Opportunities, 2005 (pdf)
• A Technical Assessment of High-Energy Batteries for Light-Duty Electric Vehicles, 2006 (pdf)
• An Assessment of Solar Energy Conversion Technologies and Research Opportunities, 2006 (pdf)
• A Technical Assessment of Coal Utilization and Research Trends, 2006 (pdf)

geothermal:

• blogs:
  • FuturePundit
    • MIT Study Sees Big Future For Geothermal Energy (1/28/07)

Global Public Media: Public Service Broadcasting for a Post Carbon World

Greg Croft Inc.

• World Oil Supply Outlook (html)
• Peak Oil: Fact and Fiction (html)

Health and Energy (Jon Traudt)

• Energy Efficiency
• Global Warming
• Oil Crisis
• Renewable Energy

History of Chemical Engineering

Holon Ecosystem Consultant (Folke Gunther)

• the energy use of a family
• the laws of thermodynamics

Hubbert Peak of Oil Production

hydrogen:

• Entropy Production blog (Robert McLeod)
  • Hydrogen's Death Knell? (7/22/06)
• The Ergosphere
  • Europe passes death sentence on hype-drogen (8/7/06)
  • Why hydrogen is no route to renewables (7/27/05)

IEA - International Energy Agency

• Energy, power and work in the US economy, 1900-1998 - pdf
• Key world energy statistics, 08 - pdf
• Worldwide trends in energy use and efficiency, 08 - pdf
• World Energy Model
• World Energy Outlook - 2007  2008
  • Executive Summary, 2007 (pdf)

ILEA- Institute for Lifecycle Environmental Assessment

• Carrying the Energy Future: Comparing Hydrogen and Electricity for Transmission, Storage and Transportation (6/04, pdf))
• The Climate Change Lecture

Institute for the Analysis of Global Security

Energy Security (monthly newsletter)

• Energy Security (archive)
• How much are we paying for a gallon of gas?

The Connection: Water and Energy Security

Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) (Where Science and Democracy Meet Arjun Makhijani)

• Publications
• Energy And Security (newsletter)
• Science for Democratic Action (newsletter)

Institute for Energy Research

• IER Sourcewatch entry
• Robert L. Bradley, president - Sourcewatch entry

International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) (allied with Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Center for Food Safety)

• Gasoline Cost Externalities Associated With Global Climate Change (9/04, pdf - 3 page update to "The Real Price of Gas")
• Gasoline Cost Externalities: Security and Protection Services (1/05, pdf - 7 pages, update to below)
• The Real Price of Gas (11/98, pdf - 43 pages)

International Energy Information Center

Khosla Ventures: venture assistance, strategic advice, venture capital

• Resources

The Land Institute - publications

• Energy in Agriculture and Society: Insights from the Sunshine Farm (2001, Marty Bender, html)
• Programs
  • Natural Systems Agriculture - bibliography

Lawrence Berkley Lab

• Electricity Markets and Policy
  • Energy Efficiency Publications
  • Renewable Energy Publications

Lawrence Livermore National Lab

• Energy & Environment Directorate
  • Energy, Carbon Emissions & Water Flow Charts
    • U.S. Energy Flow - 2002
    • U.S. 2002 Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Energy Consumption
    • U.S. Freshwater Flow Charts - 2000

LEED: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (US Green Building Council)

Life After the Oil Crash

• Facts and Research
• Top Ten Articles

Martinot, Eric - Renewable Energy Information on Markets, Policy, Investment, and Future Pathways (extensive set of resources)

• Selected Publications and Reference Material (basic references, statistical sources, markets)

Methane / Natural Gas:

• Methane Madness: A Natural Gas Primer (Community Office for Resource Efficiency (CORE) publications)
• Digestion: For discussion of anaerobic digestion (archives list info)

MIT Energy Research Council

• MIT Energy 'Manhattan Project" (Wired 8/11/06)

National Commission on Energy Policy

Report - Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy to Meet America's Energy Challenges (pdf1, pdf2)

Technical Appendix

• Enhancing Oil Security
• Reducing Risks from Climate Change
• Improving Energy Efficiency
• Expanding Energy Supply
• Strengthening Energy Supply Infrastructure
• Developing Better Energy Technologies for the Future

• Members (Public Citizen listing)
• Energy Information Administration analysis of recommendations

National Council for Science and the Environment

Congressional Research Reports - Energy

National Energy Policy Document (Whitehouse)

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

NativeEnergy

• Climate Crisis

nuclear:

Council on Foreign Relations

• Are Nuclear Spent Fuel Pools Secure? (Kevin Crowley, 6/7/05)

Nuclear Energy Institute

Up Front (resources)

nuclearinfo.net Everything you want to know about Nuclear Power (U Melbourne)

SDC - Sustainable Development Commission (UK) - energy

• The Role of Nuclear Power in a Low Carbon Economy (pdf)
• Nuclear Paper 1: An introduction to nuclear power – science, technology and UK policy context, 3/06 (pdf)
• Nuclear Paper 2 - Reducing CO2 emissions - nuclear and the alternatives (pdf)
• Nuclear Paper 8: Uranium Resource Availability (pdf)

UIC  - Uranium Information Centre, Melbourne, Austr.

• Energy Analysis of Power Systems (#57, 3/06)

blogs:

• FuturePundit
  • Thorium Nuclear Reactor Designs Advancing (6/22/06)
• The Oil Drum
  • Is Nuclear Power a Viable Option for Our Energy Needs? (8/8/06)

Oil Analytics  http://www.oilanalytics.org/ Warning - as of 12/05 this domain appears to have been purchased by someone who installed links to a pornographic sites with an autoloading virus payload. (CJ Cleveland, RK Kaufman, Boston U Center for Energy and Environmental Studies)

Oil Crash . Com (New Zealand)

ODAC - Oil Depletion Analysis Center - wiki

• Preparing for Peak Oil (pdf)
• articles:
  • Eating Fossil Fuels - Amazon

Oilnergy (price graphs)

Oils Sands' Discovery Centre

Oil Scenarios Info

Oil Shale / Tar Sands:

• RAND Infrastructure, Safety and Environment
  • Oil Shale Development in the United States: Prospects and Policy Issues (2005, index, news release, pdf, summary pdf)

blogs:

• Shell Oil Shale Extraction Technology Economically Viable? (FuturePundit, 9/05)

OPEC

Peak Oil Watch (Australian cycling group)

People (primarily academic):

• Bartlett, Albert A., Physics Prof Emeritus, U Colorado - 2nd site
  • Arithmetic, Population and Energy (lecture  Global Public Media)
  • Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis
  • Laws Relating to Sustainability
  • Reflections on Sustainability, Population Growth, and the Environment - Revisited 1998
  • Testimony - US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy (2001)
  • The Essential Exponential! For the Future of Our Planet (book)
  • The New Flat Earth Society (letter response to Julian Simon)
• Chefurka, Paul -  Peak Oil and the World Problematique
  • What Drives Population - Food or Energy?
• Deffeyes, KS (Princeton geologist emeritus, author - Hubbert's Peak)
• Dumesic, James A.,  Research Group (U Wisc) biomass conversion
• Goodstein, David, Vice Provost, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Cal Tech
  • Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil (Amazon)
  • Energy, Technology and Climate: Running Out of Gas (paper)
  • The End of the Age of Oil (talk) (2nd site)
  • Hubbert's Peak: An Energy Crisis? (interview)
  • Caltech streaming theatre (lecture)
  • American Scientist Inteview
• Green, Arthur R., chief geoscientist for ExxonMobil Exploration Company (retired), AAPG bio
  • Global Energy - The Next Decade and Beyond - 2004-05 AAPG Distinguished Lecture HTML pdf (18MB) - Search and Discovery on-line journal
  • Opportunities and Priorities in Arctic Geoscience (1991) - NAS book content pdfs
  • Review of EarthScope Integrated Science (2001) - NAS book content pdfs
• Hoffert, Martin - physicist, New York U.
  • Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy for a Greenhouse Planet (Science 298:981-987, 2002, html)
  • A Renewable Energy Rationale (2004, ppt)
  • Beyond Fossil Fuels (PBS interview html)
  • Can Renewable Energy Slow Global Warming? (pdf presentation)
  • Energy for Climate Stabilization (pdf presentation with Ken Caldeira)
  • Energy Implications of Global Climate Stabilization (ppt)
  • Satellite Solar Power Stations: An Overview (pdf presentation with Jordin T. Kare)
  • Renewables Overview (pdf)
  • The Real “Junk Science” of Global Warming (pdf presentation)
  • Time To Come Down From Their Ivory Towers (2002, Steve Clark, critique of Hoffert's projections & solutions EV World, html)
  • Response (not Hoffert, Steve Sturgill -html)
• Klare, Michael T. Professor of Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS), Hampshire College
  • Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (Amazon)
  • Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict (Amazon)
  • Articles:
    • Tomgram: Michael Klare on Entering the Age of Resource Wars (8/05, html, TomDispatch blog)
    • Tomgram: Mike Klare on Our Energy-Stretched Planet (5/05, html, TomDispatch blog)
• Lewis, Nathan S., Prof. Chemistry, Div. of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Cal Tech - nanotechnologyh
  • Chemical Challenges in Renewable Energy (pdf)
  • Global Energy Perspective (ppt)
• Lynch, Michael C. Global Petroleum Service; SEER - Strategic Energy & Economic Research Inc.
  • Closed Coffin: Ending the Debate on "The End of Cheap Oil" A commentary
  • Crying Wolf: Warnings about oil supply (pdf)
  • The New Pessimism about Petroleum Resources: Debunking the Hubbert Model (and Hubbert Modelers) (pdf)
  • SEER presentations (index)
• Norris, John
  • Biodiesel:Land Calculator
  • Ethanol:Land Calculator
• Patzek, Tad W. (Civil & Environmental Engr, UC Berkeley)
  • CE24 Sustainable Energy Sources: Solar, Biomass, and...Conservation (S2005)
  • CE24 Hydrogen Economy: The Good, Bad, and Ugly (F2003)
  • CE24: Clean Energy for the Future? Says Who? (S2003)
  • Recent Papers:
    • Thermodynamics of the Corn-Ethanol Biofuel Cycle
    • Thermodynamics of Energy Production From Biomass
• Pimentel, D 2nd
  • US Energy Conservation and Efficiency: Benefits and Costs (4/02, pdf)
• Smalley, RE (nanostructures - Nobel, Rice University)
  • Future Global Energy Prosperity: The Terawatt Challenge (MRS Bulletin 30:412-417,  (2005), pdf)
• Somsel, Joseph, nuclear engineer
  • Nuclear is Back in Business! (Energy Pulse, 2/20/04 html - LNG vs. nuclear comparison)
  • California's Electricity Future - Time for a Decision (Energy Pulse, 7/28/04 html)

photovoltaics:

blog:

• FuturePundit
  • GE Engineer Sees Competitive Photovoltaics In Under 10 Years (10/21/07)
  • Rapid growth in photovoltaics demand driven by Germany (4/10/06)

PowerSwitch

• Comment & Analysis
• Essential Oil : Oil Crisis for beginners (1/05, on-line book TOC)
• Domino Effect and Interdependencies (Norman Church, 2/05, html pdf)
• Why Our Food is So Dependent on Oil (Norman Church, 4/05, html pdf)

Radovic

Energy and the Environment (class)

• Overview
• Energy conversion efficiency

RAEL - Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (Daniel M. Kammen, Director, UC Berkeley)

• Papers

Renewable Energy:

DocRenewableEnergy (most recent document references)
http://www.docrenewableenergy.info/en/

• Renewable Energy Options – An Overview (5/04, Marty Hoffert, pdf)
• Renewable Energy; What are the limits? (Ted Trainer)

REPP - Renewable Energy Policy Project

• Federal Energy Subsidies: Not all technologies are created equal (2000, pdf - reports index)
• Gasification Reference Sites

Resources Research Unit - School of Environment and Development, Sheffield Hallam University

• Reports
  • Bioethanol Life Cycle Study (pdf)
  • Carbon and Energy Balances for a Range of Biofuels Options  (index)
  • Evaluation of the Comparative Energy, Global Warming and Social Costs and Benefits of Biodiesel (pdf)

Sandia National Laboratories

• Sandia applies a surety approach in creating solutions to energy challenges (news release 7/10/06)
• Toward an Energy Surety Future (pdf)
  • Energy Bulletin report

San Francisco Bay Oil

• San Francisco Oil Awareness
  • The Myth of Biofuels

SEI - Strategic Energy Institute - Georgia Institute of Technology

• presentations
• Carbon Cycling: A sustainable path to food and energy (pdf)

Set America Free: Cut dependence on foreign oil. Secure America

• Blueprint for Energy Security

solar:

• Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development (Travis Bradford)
  • industry links
• SHPEGS: Solar heat pump electrical generation system - the "Energy Tower"

Stanford - School of Earth Sciences - Public Lectures

• Energy & Environment Public Lecture Series: The End of Oil?

Surviving Peak Oil: Grass Root Ideas to Survive (Costa Rica Development Center)

• Agricultural Carbon Utilization - Carbon Sequestration (9/04, article)

sustainable energy:

• A Robust Strategy for Sustainable Energy (KS Lackner, JD Sachs, 2005, pdf)

The Animana Pages

• The tightening conflict: population, energy use, and the ecology of agriculture (M Giampietro, D Pimentel)

The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas

The Coming Global Oil Crisis

Site map

The Cost of Energy: Energy Issues for Non-Experts

The Parkland Institute - U Alberta

• Fuelling Fortress America: A Report on the Athabasca Tar Sands and U.S. Demands for Canada's Energy (H. McCullum, 3/7/06, pdf, exec summary pdf)
• Toward an Energy Security Strategy for Canada (11/05, pdf)

The Wolf at the Door (the beginner's guide to oil depletion - Paul Thompson)

transportation:

• Aviation and Sustainability (index, pdf, John Whitelegg and Howard Cambridge, Stockholm Environment Institute)
• Center for Urban Transportation Studies (U Wisconsin - Milwaukee)
  • Energy: Supply, Demand and the Future (6/05, pdf - Edward Beimborn, director - nice humor)
• Freight transport (Sustainable Transportation Monitor, 4 (2001) pdf).
• Good practice in freight transport (index, EUROPA - Environment)
• Statistics on environmental and transport issues (Statistics Denmark, toc)
• Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP)
  • Transportation and Climate Change (html)
• Transportation Research Board - National Academies of Science
  • Publications (index)
    • Commuting in America III, 2006 (NCHRP 550, TCRP 110 pdf)
    • Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics: Foundation for the Future, 2005 (toc)
• Transportation Technology R&D Center - Argonne National Laboratory (pro ethanol)
  • Publications (indexes)
    • Well-to-Wheels Analysis of Advanced Fuel/Vehicle Systems — A North American Study of Energy Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Criteria Pollutant Emissions, 5/05 (238 pg pdf)

AQMD - South Coast Air Quality Management District

• technical forums - EHV, ethanol

APTA - American Public Transportation Association

• Online publications and surveys
• Transit Statistics
  • Public Transportation Fact Book

automobiles:

emissions:

• Automobiles: Manufacture vs. Use (Carnegie Mellon ILEA Leaf, 2002)

fuel efficiency:

• Car Talk's Guide to better fuel economy
• Driving More Efficiently

Tony's Guide to Fuel Saving (active  engine combustion engineer)

blogs:

• The Oil Drum
  • PHEV thread (10/19/06)

Centre for Sustainable Transportation (U Winnipeg)

• completed projects
• proceedings
• Sustainable Transportation Monitor
  • The need to reduce transport energy use, and ways to do it (6/04, pdf)
  • Freight transport (4/01, pdf)
  • Sustainable Transportation and the End of Cheap Oil (2/99, pdf)
  • The limitations of technology in achieving sustainable transportation (11/01, pdf)
  • The future of aviation (3/00, pdf)
  • Why a Sustainable Transportation Monitor? (3/98, pdf)

EVA DC - The Electric Vehicle Association of Greater Washington DC

• Debunking the Myth of EVs and Smokestacks - pdf

Government sites:

• www.fueleconomy.gov
  • Advanced Technologies and Energy Efficiency
  • Energy Efficient Technologies
• USDA Agricultural Marketing Service - Transportation and Marketing
  • Grain Transportation Report - (costs and quantities) - archives
• US Department of Energy
  • Transportation Energy Data Book (TOC US DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Center for Transportation Analysis)
  • Off-Highway Transportation-Related Fuel Use, 2004 (pdf US DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Center for Transportation Analysis)
  • Transportation Topics - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Human-powered:

• Bicycling Wastes Gas? (BicycleUniverse.info, html)
• The environmental paradox of bicycling, 2006 (KT Ulrich, pdf)

Hybrids / electric:

• Advanced Hybrid Vehicle Research Center, Andy Frank, ME Prof, UC Davis
• CalCars: The California Car Initiative
  • All about plug-in Hybrids (PHEVs)
• Car and Driver
  • Every mile means more when you start on empty (Patrick Bedard, 8/01)
  • The buyers have spoken: Forget electric cars (Patrick Bedard, 1/04)
• GristMill
  • Ex-GM employee responds on electric car (7/10/06)
• HybridCars.com
• Ideas (David Friedman blog)
  • What an Electric Vehicle Costs (7/21/06)
    • usenet post on costs of EV1

IEA - International Energy Agency

• Automotive Fuels for the Future: The search for alternatives (pdf)
• Biofuels for Transport: An International Perspective, 2004 (pdf)
• IEA Implementing Agreement on Advanced Motor Fuels (website)

Railroads:

Light Rail Now

• Public Transport Industry Issues - index
• Electrification 101
  • Electrification of Transportation as a Response to Peaking of World Oil Production (Alan S. Drake, 11/05)
  • A 10% Reduction in America's Oil Use in Ten to Twelve Years: An Overlooked, Practical, and Affordable Approach Using Mature Existing Technology (Alan S. Drake, 5/06)

• Railroad Wheel FAQ

traction:

• Electric Tractors (2003, Jim Coate, electric vehicles, electric tractors, The Natural Farmer)

People:

• Chester, M
  • Environmental Life-cycle Assessment of Passenger Transportation
  • Environmental assessment of passenger transportation should include infrastructure and supply chains (Environ Res Lett 4(2), 2008)
• F. David Doty, PhD, Doty Scientific Inc.
  • A Realistic Look at Hydrogen Price Projections, 2004 (pdf)
  • Fuels for Tomorrow's Vehicles, 2005 (pdf)
  • Our Transportation Energy Future (pdf)
  • Practical, Clean Energy For Future Private Transportation, 2003 (pdf)
  • Amazon book reviews
• Kemp, Roger
  • Environmental impact of high speed rail (2004, ppt pdf, 2006 htm)
  • Take the car and save the planet (IEEE Power Engineer, 2004, pdf)
  • Transport energy consumption (2004, pdf)
• Lawyer, David S.
  • Does Mass Transit save energy (index)
  • Rail vs Auto Energy Efficiency (index)
  • Miles per Gallon - Railway Technical Web Pages
• Strickland, James
  • Energy Efficiency of different modes of transportation

papers/texts:

• Aviation and sustainability (Stockholm Environment Institute, 2004 pdf)
• Biofuels for Transportation: Global Potential and Implications for Sustainable Agriculture and Energy in the 21st Century, 2006 (WRI, extended summary pdf, short summary pdf)
• Comparative Analysis of Energy Consumption and CO Emissions of Road Transport and Combined Transport Road/Rail (pdf)
• Gauging Efficiency, Well to Wheel (Frank Kreith, RE West, ME Power, 2003,  html - Transportation Quarterly, 56(1):51-73, 2002)
• Innovation for sustainability: The case of sustainable transportation (SPRU 40th Anniv Conf, 2006, pdf)
• International resource costs of biodiesel and bioethanol (pdf)
• Life-cycle Environmental Inventory of Passenger Transportation in the United States (eScholarship Repository)
• Potential for Biofuels for Transport in Developing Countries October, 2005 (World Bank documents, M Kojima, T Johnson, 182 pg pdf)
• Rail and Road in Intercity Transport: Energy and Environmental Impact ((India) EPW 10/18/03)
• Rail loses the environmental advantage (Informed Sources, 6/04)
• Technologies supportive of sustainable transportation, 2000 (A Dearing, Annu Rev Energy Environ  25:89–113, pdf)
• The Private Cost Effectiveness of Improving Energy Efficiency, Report no. 36, Canberra. (Productivity Commission 2005, huge pdf - 554 pgs)

Blogs (transportation):

• A Possible Road Ahead (Enders Environmental Blog, 6/05)
• The Ergosphere - 2005 index
  • Out of Town on Rails (2/17/06)
  • You find you get what you need (8/19/06)
• FuturePundit
  • Cars More Energy Efficient Than Trains? (6/24/04)
• GreenBiz.com - reports - tools
  • Rolling Smokestacks: Cleaning Up America’s Trucks and Buses (UCS report link)
• Gristmill
  • Ship It, Ship It Good How companies are driving down the impacts of shipping (5/26/06)
• PedShed
  • Energy Use and Pollution of Travel Modes (12/7/08)
• terrapass
  • Everything good for you is bad for the environment (7/18/06)
• The Oil Drum
  • The energy efficiency of cars (2/16/09)
  • Rail Efficiencies (12/26/08)
  • Aviation and Oil Depletion (12/19/06)
  • Flying vs. driving (10/2/05)
• TransportWatch UK
  • Road versus rail – Facts Sheet number 5: Fuel consumption – an update: August 2004

US Department of Energy

• Transportation Energy Data Book - Chapter Index
  • Chap 2 - Energy

Wikipedia

• Light rail

Trendvue

• Peak Oil, a Gentle Primer
• Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management (archived DOE pdf)

Union of Concerned Scientists - Energy

• Energy Innovations: A Prosperous Path to a Clean Environment (html)

Uses of results in the Agriculture and Husbandry Sector - Energy and Economy (Brazil)

US Government:

EnergyStar - DOE EPA

• Useful Facts & Figures

DOE

EERE - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

• Buildings Energy Databook (website)
• Power Technologies Energy Data Book (website, toc)
• Transportation Energy Data Book (index Oak Ridge National Lab)
  • Petroleum

NETL - National Energy Technology Laboratory - Energy Analyses

• Economic Impacts of U.S. Liquid Fuel Mitigation Options (2006, Bezdek, Wendling, Hirsch, 156 pg pdf)

DOI -  Dept. of Interior

• Minerals Management Service - Gulf of Mexico Region (gulf oil & gas production information & statistics)

EIA Energy Information Administration

• Annual Energy Outlook 2005 with Projections to 2025
  • Market Trends - Coal Production
  • Market Trends - Natural Gas Demand and Supply -

GAO

• Crude Oil: Uncertainty about Future Oil Supply Makes It Important to Develop a Strategy for Addressing a Peak and Decline in Oil Production, 2/07 (GAO-07-283 pdf)

USDA NRCS - technical resources - energy

• Energy Estimator: Animal Housing
• Energy Estimator: Irrigation
• Energy Estimator: Nitrogen
• Energy Estimator: Tillage

USGS

• World Energy Resources (World Petroleum Assessment) index a

US House of Representatives - Committee on Energy and Commerce

• OpenCongress - Committees

Wells Fargo

• Identifying the Opportunities in Alternative Energy (pdf)

wind:

• AWEA - American Wind Energy Association
  • Complimentary Resource Library (index)
  • Fact sheets
  • small wind systems
• BWEA - British Wind Energy Association
  • Small Wind Systems

blog:

• worldchanging
  • Catching up with the wind (11/14/05)

• Energy return on investment (EROI) for wind energy

World Energy Council

• Energy Data Centre
  • Global Energy Scenarios to 2050 and Beyond

World Resources Institute

Oil as a finite resource: When is global production likely to peak?

World Watch Institute

• Research Library: Energy: Energy Sources
• Research Library: Energy: Transportation

Books, Texts, Papers:

Bush's Greatest Failure (R Bryce, Texas Observer)

The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (Peter W. Huber, Mark P. Mills, 2005) (Amazon)

• Digital power group (author's website)
  • Articles
  • Book website
• The Future Pundit blog discussion
• Jim Pinto review
• Manhattan Institute book website
• Paul Weyrich review (CEO Free Congress Research and Education Foundation - politically and culturally conservation)
• Seattle Times review
• The Art of Energy: The future will not be painted in oil (Slate article - Huber and Mills)
• The end of the m.e.? (electric locomotor power)
• Why the US needs more nuclear power (City Journal)

Berman, Arthur E. (Houston Geological Society - online articles)

• The Oil Boom, 1973-1986: A simple story?
• Ideas are like stars: The Current Oil Boom, 2001-2005

Bartlett, Albert A. (Physics Prof Emeritus, U Colorado)

• Arithmetic, Population and Energy (lecture)
• Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis
• Laws Relating to Sustainability
• Reflections on Sustainability, Population Growth, and the Environment - Revisited 1998
• Testimony - US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy (2001)
• The Essential Exponential! For the Future of Our Planet (book)
• The New Flat Earth Society (letter response to Julian Simon)

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

• Oil: Caveat empty (6/05)
• Oil: The illusion of plenty (1/04)

Browne, John

• Beyond Koyoto Foreign Affairs 83(4) July/August 2004

Carbon Cycling: A sustainable path to food and energy (pdf)

Deffeyes, KS (petroleum geologist, Princeton)

• Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak Amazon
• Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage Amazon
• Website - Beyond Oil
  • Current Events - website

Delaney, David materials, website

• Peak Oil and the Fate of Humanity (on-line PowerPoint book, Robert Beriault)

Energy Bulletin

• Oil and Food: A Rising Security Challenge (D Murray, 5/11/05)
• The Long Fingers of Petroleum (3/16/05 - original)

Energy in Florida Agriculture (RC Fluck)

Ford Foundation

• Potential Fuel Effectiveness in Industry: A Report for the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation

Foreign Affairs - energy, resources & environment

Friedmann, S. Julio

• Out of the Energy Box (Foreign Affairs, Nov-Dec 2004)

Goldemberg, J

• World Energy Assessment: Energy and the Challenge of Sustainability (Amazon)
  • Science review

Goldstein, David B.

• Saving Energy, Growing Jobs: How Environmental Protection Promotes Economic Growth, Competition, Profitability and Innovation, 2007 (publisher book website, Amazon)

Goodstein, David (Cal Tech)

• Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil (Amazon)
• Energy, Technology and Climate: Running Out of Gas (paper)
• The End of the Age of Oil (talk) (2nd site)
• Hubbert's Peak: An Energy Crisis? (interview)
• Caltech streaming theatre (lecture)
• American Scientist Inteview

Great Change - Other Voices

Grist

• Liquid Assets Should enviros embrace liquefied natural gas?
• Nuclear Falling-Out The feds are backing nuclear power -- in the name of the environment

Heinberg, Richard

• MuseLetter (Heinberg bio) - recent issues
  • Threats of Peak Oil to the Global Food Supply (159)
  • How to Avoid Oil Wars, Terrorism, and Economic Collapse (160)
• Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World (Amazon)
• The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies (Amazon)

Homer-Dixon, Thomas (Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, U Toronto - on-line publications)

The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable Future (Amazon)

• Review

• Bringing Ingenuity to Energy
• Coal in a nice shade of green
• Ingenuity Theory: Can Humankind Create a Sustainable Civilization?
• The Ingenuity Gap: Can Poor Countries Adapt to Resource Scarcity?

Huber, PW, MP Mills

• The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy Amazon

Kunstler, James

• The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century (Amazon)
• The Twilight of Mechanized Lumpenleisure (html)

Manning, Richard

• The oil we eat: following the food chain back to Iraq (Harper's Magazine, Feb., 2004)

Mobbs, Paul

• Energy Beyond Oil (website)
  • Introduction (pdf)

New Scientist

• Energy & Fuels Special Report
• Dam shame
• Hydroelectric power's dirty secret revealed (reservoirs as methane producers)
      P. Fearnside, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, E. Duchemin

Reynolds, Douglas B. (oil, gas & energy economist, U Alaska Fairbanks) CV (pdf)

• Energy Grades and Historic Economic Growth (paper)
• Scarcity and Growth Considering Oil and Energy: An Alternative Neo-Classical View (Amazon)

Roberts, Paul (Bavarian village, WA)

• The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World, 2004 (Amazon Amazon pprbk, 2005)
  • book website

Simmons, M. R. (Simmons & Company International - investment bank specializing in energy)

• Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (Amazon)

Speeches

• 13 Points of Light
• Revisiting The Limits to Growth: Could The Club of Rome Have Been Correct, After All? (paper)
• The Energy Crisis Has Arrived - Dept of Defense Energy Conversation Series, 6/20/06 (pdf)

Smil, Vaclav, Distinguished Professor of Geography, U Manitoba

Pdf publications

• Eating Meat: Evolution, Patterns and Consequences, Population and Development Review 28:599-639, 2002. (pdf)
• Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production (Amazon)
• Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century (Amazon)
  • J Political Ecology review
• Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties. MIT Press, 2003, 448 pp. (Amazon)
  • Nature review
• Nitrogen and Food Production: Proteins for Human Diets (AMBIO 31(2), 2002 pdf)
• The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change. MIT Press, 2003  (Amazon)
• Author selected Pdf reviews of Vaclav Smil's books

Strahan, David

• The Last Oil Shock: A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man

Tertzakian, Peter - energy economist, geophysicist

• A Thousand Barrels a Second: The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World, 2006 (Amazon)
  • review - Life After the Oil Crash: The Blog (3/20/06)
  • review - The Oil Drum (3/24/06)

Tierney, John (cornucopian)

• Betting the Planet (NY Times, 12/2/90)
• Recycling is Garbage (NY Times, 6/30/96)
  • Counter - Recycling the New York Times Magazine for Fun and Profit
  • Counter - Libertarian Rhapsody (Chris Mooney, The American Prospect on-line, 9/01)
• The Good News Bears (NY Times, 8/6/05)
  • Counter - Tierney Time (Chris Mooney, blog 8/05)

Trainer, FE - The Simpler Way, U New South Wales

• Can Renewable Energy Sources Sustain Affluent Society? (Energy Policy 23(12):1009-26, 1995, html)
• Renewable Energy: What are the Limits? 2004 html1, html2

Tyner, Wally - energy economist, Purdue Ag Economics

United Nations Development Programme - Energy for Sustainable Development

Publications:

• World Energy Assessment: Energy and the challenge of Sustainability (2000 website - pdfs)
• World Energy Assessment Overview: 2004 Update (pdfs)

Vision 21: Fossil Fuel Options for the Future (2000, NAS)

Weisz, Paul B.

• Basic choices and constraints on long-term energy supplies (Physics Today, 57:47-52 (2004))

Yergin, Daniel, Chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates - CERA

• Globalist bio
• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power (1993, D Yergin) (Amazon)
  • Gulf Oil: How important is it anyway? (2nd site)
  • Counter
• Wikipedia bio

Youngquist, Walter

• Encircling the Peak of World Oil Production (RC Duncan, W Youngquist - on-line paper, 1999)
• Geodestinies: The Inevitable Control of Earth Resources over Nations and Individuals (Amazon)

Course Syllabi:

• GG/EE 518: Energy, Society, and the Environment (CJ Cleveland, Boston U)
• EE 519: Energy, Society, and the Environment (CJ Cleveland, Boston U)

Blogs, Message Boards, Newsletters:

• 321 Energy: All Business. No Nonsense
• Advanced Nanotechnology
  • Comparison Energy returned on Energy invested (7/6/07)
• Alternative Energy Blog - Solar - Energy - Wind - Power
• BioConversion Blog
• Charge: The future of energy
• Common Dreams Newscenter - Breaking News and View for the Progressive Community
  • The Twilight Era of Petroleum (8/05, html, MT Klare)
• Daily KOS
  • Energize America - Achieving U.S. Energy Security by 2020 (draft five) (5/18/06)
• Julian Darley
  • Global Public Media (Darley contributions)
  • Post Carbon Institute: Learning to live in a low energy world (Darley contributions)
• Econbrowser
  • Is peak oil irrelevant? (10/24/06)
• emagazine - E/The Environmental Magazine
  • The outlook on oil (Jan/Feb 06)
• Energy Bulletin
• Energy Facts (John Schinter)
• EnergyPulse Net: Insight, analysis and commentary on the global power industry
  • The False promises of Wind Energy (5/05, html - Michael Fox)
  • The maturation of Matt Simons, energy-industry investment banker and peak oil guru (7/27/06)
• Entropy Production  (Robert McLeod)
• EV World
• FuturePundit (Randall Parker)
  • Electric Motorcycles Coming To Market (7/22/07)
  • IEA: Oil Supply Crunch after 2010 (7/9/07)
  • Coalition Pushes 25% Renewable Energy by 2025 (6/9/06)
  • Saudis see Peak Oil within 2 decades (4/06)
• Marshall Brain's Blog (general topics, "How Stuff Works")
  • AltEng Blog - tracking alternative energy sources
  • Peak oil will be a non-event (6/05)
• GraphOilogy
• Green Car Congress: Energy Technologies, Issues and Policies for Sustainable Mobility
• Gristmill
  • Peak oil and heuristics (8/11/05 html)
  • Biodiesel: it's what you make it out of (8/19/05, html)
• Harpers's Magazine
  • Oil facts
• HybridCars.com
  • Fuels
• Land of Black Gold
• marklynas.org
• Monbiot Guardian columns (George Monbiot bio)
  • Feeding Cars, Not People (12/04, html)
  • Living with the Age of Entropy (8/04, html)
  • Losing the Battle with Entropy (8/04, html)
• Muck and Mystery
  • ABCs (3/23/08)
  • Must I believe? (3/13/06)
  • Social Dunces (3/10/06)
• Odograph.com
• OmniNerd
  • What you need to know about Peak Oil (Robert Rapier, 5/17/06)
• Past Peak: cause for alarm
• Peak Energy (many direct links)
  • The fat man, the population bomb and the green revolution (8/29/07)
• Peak Energy
• Peak Oil Crisis: The end of cheap oil
• Peak Oil News and Message Boards
• Peak Oil Webring
• ReFocus: International renewable energy magazine
• Renewable Energy Law Blog
• Repp E-mail Lists
  • Bioenergy archives
  • Gasification archives
  • Greenbuilding archives
  • PVusers archives
  • Biomass Stoves archives
  • Strawbale Construction archives
• Resource Insights (Kurt Cobb, )
  • Apocalypse always: Is the peak oil movement really just another apocalyptic cult? (8/5/06)
• RigZone - Exploration & Production
  • News & Analysis
• R-Squared: Telling it like it is (Robert Rapier)
  • Understanding EROEI (3/5/08)
  • The Future is Solar (7/23/07)
• Scitizen
  • Will the Rate-of-Conversion Problem Derail Alternative Energy? (5/23/08)
• SustainLane
  • SustainLane US City Rankings
  • Ten US cities best prepared for an oil crisis
• Terra Rossa: Where Conservatives Consider a New Energy Future
• The Cost of Energy (Lou Grinzo)
• The Ergosphere
  • Where to go from here (11/04)
• The Oil Drum: Discussions about energy and our future (new site 12/24/06)
  • Energy Transitions Past and Future (Cutler Cleveland, 7/1/08)
    • WisdomfromPakistan
  • The Bakken Formation: How Much Will It Help? (4/26/08)
  • Peak Minerals (10/15/07)
  • A New Method of Extracting Heavy Oil: Toe to Heel Air Injection (THAI) (8/27/07)
  • Energy Transitions Past and Future (Cutler Cleveland, 8/8/07)
  • Crisis, what energy crisis? (7/3/07) background posts
  • Why We Disagree on Peak Oil and Climate Change: Part III - Our Belief Systems (Nate Hagens, 5/1/07)
  • "Peak Oil" - Why Smart Folks Disagree - Part II (Nate Hagens, 4/2/07)
  • Our World Is Finite: Is This a Problem? (4/30/07)
  • Peak Oil - Whom to Believe? Part One - "There's Plenty of Oil, CERAiously" (Nate Hagens, 3/28/07)
  • Ten Fundamental Principles of Net Energy (Cutler Cleveland, 1/26/07)
• The Oil Drum old site (included current NYMEX Sweet Crude price)
  • Scarcity Rents and Oil Prices, Again (12/8/06)
  • Why We (Really) May Have Entered an Oil Production Plateau (11/13/06)
  • A Net Energy Parable: Why is ERoEI Important? (8/4/06)
  • EIA insisting on plateau (8/3/06)
  • Why peak oil is probably about now (3/1/06)
  • Graphs that Blow Your Mind . . . (world cement production) (1/29/06)
  • The Carbon Economy (1/30/06)
  • Rick Dworsky: A Warm Bath of Energy -- Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (6/5/06)
• TomDispatch.com a regular antidote to the mainstream media (Tom Engelhardt, The Nation Institute)
  • Tomgram: Michael Klare on Entering the Age of Resource Wars (8/05, html, MT Klare)
  • Tomgram: Michael Klare on a Saudi Oil Bombshell (6/05, html, MT Klare)
  • Tomgram: Mike Klare on Our Energy-Stretched Planet (5/05, html, MT Klare)
  • Tomgram: Michael Klare on the Coming Energy Crisis (04, html, MT Klare)
• Transition Culture
  • energy tag
• worldchanging
  • Oil crisis ready (city rankings  - 4/24/06)

Energy Background:

Energy Values:

EmergySystems.Org

• Emergy Evaluation (Howard T. Odum)
• Emergy Folios
  • Introduction and Global Budget (pdf)
  • Emergy of Global Processes (pdf)
  • Emergy of Ecosystems (pdf)
  • Emergy of Florida Agriculture (pdf)
  • Emergy of Landforms (pdf)

Energy Alternatives & Issues - Energy Strategies - Prof. Dennis Buffington, Penn State Ag and Biological Engineering

• Energy Cost Comparator
• Burning Shelled Corn as Fuel
  • Burning Shelled Corn - A Renewable Fuel Source (pdf)
  • Biodiesel - A Renewable Fuel Source (pdf)

EROEI - energy return on energy invested

• EROEI.com
  • Net Energy List - from Cleveland CJ, R Costanza;,CAS Hall, R Kaufmann (1984). Energy and the U.S. Economy: A Biophysical Perspective Science 225(4665):890-897. pdf JStor
  • on-line papers

IEA Energy Statistics

• Key World Energy Statistics - contents - pdf
• Unit Converter

Information Explosion (relative scales, John Baez, mathematical physicist, UC Riverside The n-Category Cafe blog)

Oil Industry Conversions (excellent set!)- Energy Policy and Planning Office, Ministry of Energy, Thailand

Rough Values (illuminating tables - Gianfranco Vidali, Science for the 21st Century, Syracuse University Physics)

Woodgas

• Fuel Density
• Proximate and Ultimate Analysis

Phyllis: the composition of biomass and waste

Fusion:

• ITER
• JET

Geothermal:

• Global Heat Flow (GPHY 5813 Geomechanics Judson L. Ahern, Geophysics prof emeritus, University of Oklahoma)

Mass Balance:

• Mass balance analysis of food consumption in the UK (pdf)

Nuclear:

• Copernicus: Uranium
• IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
• World Nuclear Association (representing companies and organizations of the global nuclear energy industry)
  • Annual Symposiums http://www.world-nuclear.org/sym/subindex.htm
  • Energy Analysis of Power Systems (3/06)
  • Hydrogen Fuel and Electricity in Transportation (Geoffrey E.H. Ballard)
  • Nuclear Energy: Public Perceptions and Decision-making (Malcolm C. Grimston)
  • Sustainable Energy (2/05)

Wikipedia

• Economics of new nuclear power plants
• Fast Breeder
• Integral Fast Reactor
• Nuclear Power
• Nuclear Reactors

Texts:

A Heat Transfer Textbook, 3^rd ed, 2005 (JH. Lienhard IV and V)

The Engines of Our Ingenuity (U Houston radio program telling the story of culture formation by human creativity)

Energy and the Environment (EGEE 101 Radovic, Ljubisa R., Penn State, html2)

Energy and the Environment, 2nd ed., 2005, Ristinen, RA, Kraushaar, JP publisher website

Light and Matter: Physics and Astronomy Resources (B. Crowell, Fullerton College)

Thermodynamics:

Wikipedia - entropy (energy dispersal)

Lambert, Frank (Occidental College Professor Emeritus of Chemistry)

• Entropy is Simple - if we avoid the briar patches
• Entropy Sites - a guide
  • Disorder - A Cracked Crutch for Supporting Entropy Discussions
  • Shuffled Cards, Messy Desks, and Disorderly Dorm Rooms - Examples of Entropy Increase? Nonsense! (J Chem Edu, 1999)
• Second Law
• A Student’s Approach to the Second Law and Entropy
• Shakespeare and Thermodynamics: Dam the Second Law!
• Lecutres? In Chem?? Today???

The Second Law of Thermodynamics

Transportation

Estimation of the Joint Demand for Vehicles and Miles: Analyzing the Impacts of Alternative Car Pollution Control Policies (pdf)

Online Transportation Demand Management - Victoria Transport Policy Institute

• Transportation Elasticities: How Prices and Other Factors Affect Travel Behavior
  • Vehicle Travel With Respect to Fuel Price

RITA - Bureau of Transportation Statistics - US Dept Transportation

texts:

• Comparison of energy losses for various modes of transport
• Energy losses in a vehicle - California Energy Center - Consumer Energy Center

blogs:

• The Oil Drum
  • Why We Drive (12/13/06) (Stuart Staniford, Or, why mass transit and land-use changes probably won't help our problems very much).

classes:

• Biol 3144: Ecology - index
  • Energy flow of organisms

The encyclopedia of earth - topic energy

• Energy return on investment (EROI)
• Net energy analysis

Wikipedia:

Categories

• Peak Oil
• Petroleum

Articles

• Biodiesel
• Coal
• EROEI
• Future energy development
• Hubbert Peak
• Complexity, Problem Solving and Sustainable Societies
• Energy density
• Energy economics
• Energy economy
• Hubbert peak theory
• Julian Simon
• Joseph Tainter The Collapse of Complex Societies
• List of energy topics
• Methane clathrate
• Petroleum
• Renewable energy
• Renewable energy development
• Thermodynamics
• Donella Meadows Twelve leverage points

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Global Climate Change

Unique Keywords:

Palaeoclimatology, paleoceanography

ISI Global Warming database - 1991 - 8/01

Ad Council - Global Warming

AGI - American Geological Institute

• Climate Change Policy

agriculture:

• Climate Change and Agricultural Vulnerability (pdf) - IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
• Climate Change and Agriculture: Report of a Center for Rural Affairs Task Force - Center for Rural Affairs, Nebraska
• Climate Change and Northeast Agriculture (Clean Air Cool Planet, Northeast SARE, Cornell, U Vermont)
  • Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture
  • additional resources
• Climate change - FAO

AP6 - Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate

Arbor Day Foundation

• Hardiness zone change map

AVEC - Integrated Assessment of Vulnerable Ecosystems under Global Change, 2005 summer school

• Agricultural systems and their vulnerability to climate change

• Basic impacts of anthropogenic climate change (pdf)

• Carbon cycle and global vulnerability (pdf)

• Historic cases of vulnerability (pdf)

carbon dioxide:

• Hestia Project (Purdue PCCRC) - global CO₂ emission inventory
• Vulcan Project (Purdue) - US fossil fuel CO₂ emission inventory mapped
  • Where Global Warming Begins (The Daily Green 4/8/08)

CarboEurope IP - Assessment of the European Terrestrial Carbon Balance

Carbon Management & Sequestration Center - Ag Research & Development Center - Ohio State

• NR H648: Tragedy of the Commons? Environment, Government and Collective Action (Koontz, Tom)

• NR 835: Ecosystem Management Policy (Koontz, Tom)

CARMA: Carbon Monitoring for Action

CCX - Chicago Climate Exchange

Center for Health and the Global Environment (Harvard Medical School)

• Eric Chivian, MD, Director, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
• Paul R. Epstein, MD, MPH, Associate Director, Instructor in Medicine Harvard Medical School
  • counters:
    • no/se/nada blog - You have got to be kidding me, 10/27/05 (Kevin Vranes)
    • Prometheus blog - Exchange in BAMS on Climate Impacts Attribution, Part 2
• Publications
  • Biodiversity: Its Importance to Human Health, 2002 (low res pdf, hi res pdf)
  • Climate Change and U.S. Agriculture: The Impacts of Warming and Extreme Weather Events on Productivity, Plant Diseases, and Pests, 2000 (pdf)
  • journals (index to pdfs)

CFI - Center for Inquiry

• Global Climate Change Triggered by Global Warming, 2006 (html pdf)

CIER - Center for Integrative Environmental Research - U Maryland

• The US Economic Impacts of Climate Change and the Costs of Inaction, 2007 - webpage pdf

Climate Change Impact Assessments:

• Climatic Change 94(3) Special issue: Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA
  • Part 3. Dryland Production of Grain and Forage Crops
  • An Integrated Assessment Summary

Climate Change Institute - U Maine

• articles (index)

Climate Prediction Net (distributed computer modeling)

Climatic Research Unit - U East Anglia Norwich

• Climate Monitor Online (online data sets, monthly summaries)
• Information Sheets

Climate Science (Schneider, Stephen H., Stanford - excellent site)

• An Overview of the Climate Change Problem
• Climate Science
• Climate Impacts
• “Mediarology”: The Roles of Citizens, Journalists, and Scientists in Debunking Climate Change Myths

Climate Solutions: Practical solutions to global warming

• Farm Groups Pushing for Renewable Energy Standards (8/04 - pdf)
• Transportation and Climate Change: 10 Keys for Mapping Policy Pathways (5/04 - pdf)

Climate Systems Center, Geophysical Sciences University of Chicago

• Eshel, Gidon, Martin, Pamela
  • It's better to green your diet than your car New Scientist 12/17/05
  • Hard to swallow, The Guardian 1/4/06

CO₂ Science - Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (Idso family)

• ExxonSecrets - Center - C Idso
• SourceWatch - Center -  SB Idso CD Idso

EarthSave: Healthy people health planet

• A New Global Warming Strategy How Environmentalists are Overlooking Vegetarianism as the Most Effective Tool Against Climate Change in Our Lifetimes (html summary, pdf)
• How Our Food Choices can Help Save the Environment (Steve Boyan)
• 2,500 Gallons All Wet? (John Robbins)

EarthTrends: Environmental Information Portal (water, climate, energy, food, population)

eredux - Global Warming & Energy: vital statistics, interactive maps and more

• US Carbon Footprint tables

ESA - European Space Agency - Observing the Earth

European Climate Forum

What is dangerous Climate Change? (Peking report - pdf)

Evangelical Climate Initiative

• FAQ

• press resources

• resources

Farming Futures: Tomorrow's Climate - Today's Challenge

FCRN - Food Climate Research Network

(See heading entries under FCRN in "Food Security" above)

FNU - Sustainability and Global Change (FNU U Hamburg)

• Courses:
  • ERE1 Environmental and resource economics
• Models and Data
• Working papers
  • Tol,R.S.J. (2006), Why Worry about Climate Change? A Research Agenda, FNU-116 (pdf)
  • Tol, RSJ. The marginal damage costs of carbon dioxide emissions: an assessment of the uncertainties (Energy Policy 33:2065-2074, 2005)

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory - NOAA, Princeton U.

Climate Impact of Quadrupling Atmospheric CO₂ An Overview of GFDL Climate Model Results

Global Carbon Project

•  OptIC - Optimisation Intercomparison Project

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD directory of earths science data and services - NASA)

Global Warming Linkds

Global Warming Primer (Woods Hole Research Center)

GHG's - Greenhouse Gases:

blogs:

• Resilience Science: metaphors, measurement, and management
  • Visualizing greenhouse gas emissions (11/08/06)

people:

• Jaegle, Lyatt, Dept Atmospheric Sci, U Wash
  • ATMS 211: Climate and Climate Change (2002)
  • Long-range transport of pollution (index)
  • Quantifying surface emissions of NOx and VOC from space (index)
  • publications

GISS - NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (Center for Climate Systems Research - Earth Institute - Columbia U)

• Hansen, Jim - publications
• Hillel, Daniel - publications - CCSR bio
• Rosenzweig, Cynthia E. - publications
• publications
  • Earth's energy imbalance: Confirmation and implications. (Science 308:1431-1435, 2005)
• The Global Warming Debate, 1999 James Hansen

Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research

• Climate change and energy management
• Climate change projections
• Coupled climate carbon cycle project

Heinrich events

human health:

• Global Climate Change
  • Risk of Malarial Transmission
• people:
  • McMichael, Anthony J. - National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
    • collaborator - Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis
    • Climate change and human health: what do we know? Med J Aust 177 (11/12): 590-591(2002)
    • Climate.org - Impacts of Climate Change - Climate Change and Human Health
    • news - Global warming to increase infectious disease: study 9/18/07

ice dams:

Jökulhlaup: Glacier outburst floods - a short tutorial

IEA - International Energy Agency

• Sectoral Approaches to Greenhouse Gas Mitigation- Exploring Issues for Heavy Industry, 11/07 (pdf)
  • Executive Summary

IGBP (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme)

• GLOBEC - Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics
• GLP - Global Land Project (no independent site yet)
• IGAC - International Global Atmospheric Chemistry
• IMBER - Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research
• LOICZ - Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone
• LUCC - Land-Use and Land-Cover Change

IGBP Science Series - executive summaries

• Marine Ecosystems and Global Change (2003)
• Global Change and the Earth System: A planet under pressure (2001)
• Environmental Variability and Climate Change (2001)

IGOS - Integrated Global Observing Strategy

• IGCO - Integrated Global Carbon Observation

International Artic Research Center (U Alaska - Fairbanks)

• Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (report)

International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (Columbia)

• IRI Climate information digest (monthly summary of recent climate events, impacts, and seasonal forecasts)

IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)

• 2007 Reports:
  • AR4 Synthesis Report
    • Summary for Policymakers (pdf)
  • Working Group I - The Physical Basis of Climate Change - TOC
    • reviewer comments
  • Working Group II - Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability - TOC
  • Working Group III - Mitigation of Climate Change - TOC
    • Chapt. 8: Agriculture (pdf)
  • BBC site
• Counters:
  • Problems with Surface Temperature Data (V Gray, pdf)
    • counter: Revenge of the zombie facts (11/5/07, Hot Topic: Global warming and the future of New Zealand)
  • SEPP: Science & Environmental Policy Project - (S. Fred Singer, Sourcewatch)
  • SPPI: Science & Public Policy Institute (Robert Ferguson, Sourcewatch)
  • The IPCC and technical information example: Impacts on human health (3/05, Paul Reiter, Institut Pasteur, Paris)
  • Memorandum by Ross McKitrick, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Guelph (2/05)
  • Mosquitos, malaria and the IPCC "consensus" (8/30/05, Climate Audit blog, Steve McIntyre)
  • The Economics of Climate Change - 2nd Report, UK House of Lords (html toc, pdf)

IRI - The International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia U

• publications

JAXA - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

• GOSAT - Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite

Joint Global Change Research Institute (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of Maryland)

• Publications (index)
• People:
  • Michael J. Scott -PNNL Economic Analysis - Staff

Livestock Contributions:

• Frank M. Mitloehner, UC Davis Air Quality Extension Specialist

• Livestock's Long Shadow, 2006 (FAO report, pdf, press release)
  • Blame Cows Before Cars For Greenhouse Gases (pro, FuturePundit, 12/12/06)
  • Bull Dookey (counter, Muck and Mystery, 12/14/06)
• US EPA - Climate Change
  • Ruminant livestock (static)
    • FAQ

NASA

• Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)
• Heliophysics: the new science of the sun-solar connection
• Ocean Color Data & Resources
• Sea Surface Temperatures - JPL Physical Oceanography
• SeaWiFS Project (sea surface temps - tremendous images)
• SOHO - Solar and Heliospheric Observatory

National Geographic

• The Power of Light

• The Sun: Living with the Stormy Star (2004)

NOAA Paleoclimatology - NCDC - National Climate Data Center - NESDIS - National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service

• A Paleo Perspective on Abrupt Climate Change
  • Abrupt Climate Change Sitemap
• Climate Data Visualizations
• Climate Diagnostics Center
• Climate Reconstructions
• Data Access & Data Submission
  • Climate Forcing Data
• Drought
• Global Warming
• Global Warming FAQ
• National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)
  • Publication list
• NWS Space Environment Center
• World Data Center for Paleoclimatology (mirror site)
  • Ice Cores

Earth Observatory - Features

• Paleoclimatology

Noble Foundation

• newsletters
  • Grazing Lands and Soil Carbon Storage (Ag News and Views Research, June 2009)
  • Implications of Proposed Cap-and-Trade Legislation (Ag News and Views Economics, June 2009/a>)

NRDC - National Resources Defense Council

• Global warming
• Hotter and Drier: The West's Changed Climate (pdf) fact sheet pdf

NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center

• Arctic Sea Ice News - Fall 2007
• The Cryosphere: Where the world is frozen
  • State of the Cryosphere: Is the cryosphere sending signals about climate change?

Oceanography:

Biol 441B Biological Oceanography (N Price)

Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

Rhines, Peter (UW School of Oceanography - study of ocean circulation)

• What is Oceanography?

Pew Center on Global Climate Change - Pew Charitable Trusts

Reports - Global Warming in Depth - Workshops and Conferences

• Economics
• Environmental Impacts
• Solutions Reports
• Policy Reports

• A synthesis of potential climate change impacts on the U.S. (pdf)
• Getting ahead of the curve: Corporate strategies that address climate change (AJ Hoffman, 2006, pdf)
• U.S. market consequences of global climate change (pdf)
• Coping with Climate Change: The Role of Adaptation in the United States (pdf)
• The 10-50 Solution: Technologies and Policies for a Low-Carbon Future (3/04, html index)

Photosynthesis and Atmospheric Change Laboratory (PACLab - U Illinois, Steve Long)

• WIMOVAC (Windows Intuitive Model of Vegetation response to Atmospheric and Climate Change)

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (many reports on website)

Precautionary Principle:

• Sourcewatch article

RAND Corporation

• Climate Change

SDC - Sustainable Development Commission (UK)

• Paper 2: Reducing CO2 emissions - nuclear and the alternatives, 3/06 (pdf)
• Reducing Carbon Emissions from Transport: SDC Submission to EAC (pdf)

Sociology of Global Warming Issues:

Dunlap, Riley E. (Abo Akademi U, formerly WSU)

• Challenging Global Warming as a Social Problem: An Analysis of the Conservative Movement's Counter-Claims (Social Problems 47(4):499-522, 2000 pdf)
• Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement's Impact on U.S. Climate Change Policy (Social Problems 50(3):348-373, 2003 pdf)

solar system effects:

• Maunder Minimum - wiki

Sourcewatch - Environment

• Climate change
• Global warming
• Global warming controversy (climate change skeptics)

22th ISODARCO Summer Course on: "Global Climate Changes and Impact on Natural Resources"

• Climate Change Science, Public Education and Policy (SJ Hassol, Aspen Global Change Institute)
• The Construction of Knowledge and Implications for the Climate Change Debate: A Perspective from the Developing South (A Turton)

Space Science and Engineering Center (U Wisc)

• Satellite Composite Images: Real-Time US Composite Satellite Image

Stanford SOLAR Center

• Global Warming

The GISP2 ice core record--paleoclimate highlights  (PA Mayewski, M Bender)

The Royal Society - Science Issues -  Climate change

• A guide to facts and fictions about climate change (pdf)

The White House National Energy Policy Development Group (report index)

The Yale F&ES Project on Climate Change

• Americans and Climate Change (2006, pdf)

UN

• World Energy Assessment: Energy and the Challenge of Sustainability, 2000 (index)
  • Chap 6: Energy End-use Efficiency (pdf)

Union of Concerned Scientists

• Global Warming

United Kingdom Parliament - House of Lords

• The Economics of Climate Change - 2nd Report (html toc, pdf)

University of Chicago Department of the Geophysical Sciences

Archer, David - marine carbon cycle  publications

Pierrehumbert, Raymond T.- climate systems - tropical climate

• Tropical Glacier Retreat (RealClimate)

• Geosciences 232:Climate Dynamics of the Earth and Other Planets (2005 class)
• Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast (2005 class)
• Department of the Geophysical Sciences on-line papers

University of Washington Center for Science in the Earth System

• Climate Impacts Group
  • Monthly newsletter
  • Overview of Climate Change Impacts in the U.S. Pacific Northwest (pdf)
• Land Surface Hydrology Research Group
• Program on the Environment - Sustainability Gateway

People:

• Lettenmaier, Dennis P. (Professor, Water Resource Eng. & Hydrology)
• Miles, Edward L. - School of Marine Affairs, CIG director

US Climate Change Science Program

• Preliminary review of adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and resources, 2008 TOC
• Library
  • OUR CHANGING PLANET The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2008

USDA Global Change Program

• Greenhouse Gas Reporting Guidelines (index)
• U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Greenhouse Gas Inventory: 1990-2001. (index)

USEPA - climate change

USGRCP - globalchange.gov (Clinton administration initiative not continued by Bush administration)

• GCDIS - Global Change Data and Information System
• US National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change
  • Chapt 13: Climate Change and Agriculture in the United States (pdf)
  • Chapt 15: Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change for Human Health in the United States (pdf)

US Global Change Research Program (became US Climate Change Science Program in 2004)

• Climate Change Impacts on the United States (2001)
  • Pacific Northwest (Chapter 9 - pdf)
  • Agriculture (Chapter 13 - pdf)
• Educational Resources: Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change A detailed overview of the consequences of climate change and mechanisms for adaptation
  • Pacific Northwest
• US National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change - index page
  • Foundation report

  Politics:

• ClimateScienceWatch
  • The “Vanishing” National Climate Change Assessment, Part 1: The Administration (10/8/06)

Washington State Dept of Ecology

• Climate Change
  • Impacts of Climate Change on Washington's Economy
    • Report, 2007 (pdf) - Impacts of Climate Change on Washington's Economy

WWF

• Climate Change Programme
  • What is Global Warming?
    • Where does CO2 mainly come from? Two leading sources of CO2: energy and transport.
• Extreme weather: does nature keep up? 2004 (60 pg. pdf)

Maps & Images:

Maplecroft Maps

WRI Climate Analysis Indicators Tool

X-Maps - Global Warming

people:

Archer, David  Prof of geosciences, U Chicago - marine carbon cycle

• reprints

Barnett, Tim Scripps Institution of Oceanography

• article - Scripps Researchers Find Clear Evidence of Human-Produced Warming in World's Oceans
• 2001. Detection of anthropogenic climate change in the world's oceans., Science 292:270-274.

Befger, WH (Scripps)

Bejan, Adrian - Prof Mech Engr, Duke

• Constructal Theory
• Wikipedia - constructal theory

Brassell, Simon C., prof geological sci, Indiana U.

• Robert B. and Floretta F. Austin Distinguished Lecture in Science, 3/6/07, U Idaho cv (pdf)

Broecker, Wallace

• Et tu, O2?
• The Biosphere and Me GSA Today 6(7), July 1996
• Will Our Ride into the Greenhouse Future be a Smooth One?" GSA Today 7(5):1-7 (May 1997).
• What If the Conveyor Were to Shut Down? Reflections on a Possible Outcome of the Great Global Experiment GSA Today 9(1):1-7 (January 1999).
• Counter - Why We All Love Wally Broecker (SB Idso, KE Idso)
• Counter - Ice Age Ocean Circulation Reacted to, did not cause, Climate Change at Glacial Boundaries (news)

Calvin, William H., neurophysiologist, U of Wash. (brains, climate, evolution; where we've been and where we're heading.)

• A Brain for All Seasons (book: hypothesis that the effects of previous abrupt climate changes led to the evolution of the human brain and species survival) (on-line version)
• The Bookshelf (book recommendations)

Christy, John R. Earth Science System Center, Atmospheric Science Dept, U Alabama

Dyson, Freeman

• Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society (Edge: The Third Culture 8/8/07)

Dyson, Tim (London School of Economics)

• On development, demography and climate change: The end of the world as we know it? (archive pdf)

Emanuel, Kerry, professor of meterology, POAC webpage, Tropical meteorology and climate, MIT Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Dept.

• Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years (Nature advance on-line 7/05)
  • Commons blog comment 9/05
  • Worldchanging blog comment 8/05

Flannery, Tim - Australian mammologist / paleontologist - wikipedia

• The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth - The history and future impact of climate change, 2006 (website, Amazon)
  • review - The Quarterly Conversation (3/6/06)
  • comparative review - Dr. Fred Bortz
  • interview - California Literary Review

Gore, Al

• An Inconvenient Truth - website - book Amazon
  • review - Real Climate blog 5/10/06
  • critique - Ask Mr. Science: The moral flaws of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Greg Easterbrook, Slate 5/24/06
  • rebutal - Easterbrook baselessly accused Gore film of lacking "factual precision," ignored his own record of twisting facts on global warming - MediaMatters for America 5/26/06
  • NewBusters - exposing and combating liberal media bias
    • Court Identifies Eleven Inaccuracies in Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ (10/8/07)
  • The New Party Articles
    • Inaccuracies in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth - British court case transcripts
  • Gristmill
    • More rightie attacks on Gore (6/5/06)

Gray, William, Professor of Atmospheric Science,  Tropical Meteorology Project, Colorado State U.

Hamilton, Gordon - U Maine Climate Change Institute

• Greenland ice sheet mass balance

Hansen, James E. Earth-Sun Exploration Division - Columbia U Earth Institute

• GISS - NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
  • Air Pollution as a Climate Forcing: A Workshop (2002)
  • Air Pollution as a Climate Forcing: A Second Workshop (2005)
  • The Global Warming Debate - Educational Resource Materials (1999)
• Is There Still Time to Avoid "Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference" with Global Climate? A Tribute to Charles David Keeling (pdf)
• The Threat to the Planet (New York Review of Books, 7/13/06) (The Weather Makers, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, An Inconvenient Truth)

Harte, John (long-term experiments on GW effects on flora)

Long, Steve

Muller, Richard A.

• Global Warming Bombshell: A prime piece of evidence linking human activity to climate change turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics
• Physics for Future Presidents (class)

Oppenheimer, Michael - Prof Geosciences and International Affairs, Dept Geosciences, Princeton University

• Defining Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference: The Role of Science, the Limits of Science, Risk Analysis 25:1-9, 2005 pdf
• Avoiding Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference with the Climate System, Climatic Change 73:227-238, 2005 pdf

Pierrehumbert, Raymond T. (Prof Geophysical Sciences, U Chicago

• Climate change: A catastrophe in slow-motion. Chicago J International Law pdf

Rosenzweig, Cynthia E. (Goddard Institute for Space Studies)

• Bibliography (including on-line)
• Climate Change and Agriculture: Mitigation and Adaptation (Senate testimony)
• Fingerprints of global warming on wild animals and plants (Nature 421:57-60 (2003))
• Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and Food Supply

Schneider, Stephen H., Stanford - excellent site

• An Overview of the Climate Change Problem
• An Overview of “Dangerous” Climate Change (pdf)
• Climate Science
• Climate Impacts
• “Mediarology”: The Roles of Citizens, Journalists, and Scientists in Debunking Climate Change Myths

Singer, S. Fred, President, Science & Environmental Policy Project

• Book - Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate (Amazon)

• Anti:
  • http://www.ecosyn.us/adti/Stohrer-Singer.html
  • http://www.ecosyn.us/adti/Singer-1993-1994.html
• ExxonSecrets: How ExxonMobile funds the climate change skeptics
• Sourcewatch article
• Wikipedia article

Weart, Spencer (see below) The Discovery of Global Warming

Papers:

• docuticker
  • The U.S. Economic Impacts of Climate Change and the Costs of Inaction, Center for Integrative Environmental Research, U Maryland, 2007
• An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security (P Schwartz, D Randall, 10/03 - worst case scenario analysis commissioned by the DOD) (website with a preface to the analysis, the document pdf)
• Climate Shock: Abrupt Changes over Millennial Time Scales How will earth's climate respond to ongoing changes in greenhouse gases and ocean circulation? (Edouard Bard, pdf)
• Interstellar-terrestrial relations: Variable cosmic environments, the dynamic heliosphere, and their imprints on terrestrial archives and climate (Schere K, H Fichtner, T Boorman, J Beer et al., Space Science Rev, 2006, 139 pg pdf)
• Mathematics of Climate Change. Dana Mackenzie, 2007, MRSI  pdf
• Is a richer-but-warmer world better than poorer-but-cooler worlds? (IM Goklany, US Dept Interior, pdf)
• The Contribution of Agriculture to the State of Climate - special issue (Agriculture and Forest Meteorology, 124(2-4):87-324, 2007)
• New Scientist Environment
  • Climate change: A guide for the perplexed (5/16/07)

Books, Authors:

• Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren, 2007 (JFC DiMento, PM Doughman)  Amazon

• The Discovery of Global Warming, (Spencer Weart) Amazon
  • on-line hypertext version
• The Weather Makers: How Man is Change the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth, 2006 (Tim Flannery) Amazon

National Academies Press

• Global Warming / Climate Change Collection
• Environment and Environmental Studies
  • Analysis of Global Change Assessments: Lessons Learned (2007)
• Earth Sciences
  • Climate Change - list
  • Climate, Weather and Meteorology - list

Broecker, Wallace (oceanographer, originator of Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation hypothesis that is key to the abrupt climate change disaster scenairo above)

• Will Our Ride into the Greenhouse Future be a Smooth One? GSA Today 7(5):1-7 (May 1997, html).
• What If the Conveyor Were to Shut Down? Reflections on a Possible Outcome of the Great Global Experiment GSA Today 9(1):1-7 (January 1999, html).

Burroughs, William (ed)

• Climate: Into the 21^st Century, 2003 (Amazon)

Cox, John D.

• bio
• Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change and What It Means for our Future, 2005 (National Academies Press, TOC, Amazon)
  • More on Sudden Climate Transitions - A Book by John D. Cox (12/24/05,  Climate Science (old blog site; new site))

Crichton, Michael - Wikipedia Wikiquotes

• Fear, Complexity, & Environmental Management in the 21st Century (11/6/05 speech, Washington Center for Complexity and Public Policy)
• State of Fear, (Amazon, hardcover)
  • Michael Crichton is Right! - Heartland Institute
  • Michael Crichton’s State of Confusion - 12/13/04 RealClimate
  • Grist Magazine
    • Who you gonna believe? 1/20/05, html

Earth system science: from biogeochemical cycles to global change

Gelbspan, Ross

• Pulitzer Controversy:  Skepticism.Net JunkScience
  • Response: The Fossil Fuel Lobby's Smear Campaign Gelbspan Interview
• Sign Here to Save the Planet (Grist)
• Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster (Amazon) Barnes & Noble
• The Heat is On: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription (Amazon)
  Website: http://www.heatisonline.org/main.cfm
  • Extreme Weather Events

Global Climate Change & Peak Oil (DA Pfeiffer)

• Part I - The Sword of Damocles Has Two Edges
• Part II - Global Climate Change & Peak Oil
• Part III

Goklany, Indur (Cato Institute)

• A Selection of Recent Publications (index) - Climate Change, Affluence, Technological Change and Human & Environmental Well-Being, Precautionary Principle & Ethics, Food Security & Agriculture, Biodiversity, Air Pollution
  • How technology can reduce our impact on the Earth Prudent use of innovations could avoid sacrificing the present for the future, or vice versa. Nature 423:115, 2003 pdf

Gore

• An Inconvenient Truth (website)

Harte, John

• Meadow's End by Daniel Duane (author's description of Harte's work at Rocky Mountain laboratory, html)
• Toward a Synthesis of the Newtonian and Darwinian Worldviews (physicist vs. ecologist approach to GW, html)

Houghton, John

• Global Warming: The complete briefing, 3^rd ed., 2004 (Amazon)
  •  Ecologist educator review

Kolbert, Elizabeth (The New Yorker, 2005)

• The Climate of Man -  I How the earth is changing  II The curse of Akkad  III What can be done? Author Interview
• counter - Fraud at the New Yorker (Jude Wanniski)

Lynas, Mark (blog, author - High Tide: News from a warming world)

• articles
• blog
• books

High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis, 2004 Lynas, Mark (Amazon)

• Guardian review 1
• Guardian review 2

Mother Jones

As the World Burns

• Some Like It Hot (flows of industry money, politics)
• Put a Tiger In Your Think Tank (con groups)

National Academy of Sciences - BASC - Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate - reports

• Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises (2002) (toc pdfs)
  • Report in Brief (pdf)
• Improving the Scientific Foundation for Atmosphere-Land-Ocean Simulations: Report of a Workshop (2005) (toc pdfs)
• Radiative Forcing of Climate Change: Expanding the Concept and Addressing Uncertainties (2005) (toc pdfs)
• Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years (2006) (toc)
  • Comment on the NRC Report “Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2000 Years” (Climate Science old blog site, 6/23/06 (new site))
  • Global Warming Skeptics Engage In Denial And Spin Over New Academy Report; Gore Responds (Think Progress, 6/23/06)
  • Hockey Season Finally Over? (A Few Things Ill Considered, 6/22/06)
  • NAS Panel Report (Climate Audit, 6/22/06)
  • National Academies Synthesis Report (RealClimate, 6/22/06)
  • Quick Reaction to the NRC Hockey Stick Report (Prometheus, 6/22/06)
• Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease (2001) (toc pdfs)
• Understanding Climate Change Feedbacks (2003) (toc pdfs)

New Perspectives in Climate Change: What the EPA Isn’t Telling Us (S. Fred Singer, John R. Christy, et al., contrarian pdf)

New Scientist - News Service (publicly accessible)

• Special Reports: Climate Change
• Arctic melt may dry out US west coast 4/04/04 (30% precipitation decline in NW US)
• Arctic warming at twice global rate 11/04/04
• Climate warning as Siberia melts 8/11/05
• Climate change warning over food production 4/26/05
• Global warming brings earlier spring thaw to Great Lakes 8/20/05
• Soot worse for global warming than thought 12/22/03

Pidwimy, MJ (Okanagan University)

• Geography 210: Introduction to Environmental Issues (on-line text)

Pierrehumbert, Raymond T. - Louis Block Professor of Physics, University of Chicago

• The Climate Book (on-line physics of climate)

Rosenzweig, Cynthia

• Climate Change and Agriculture: Mitigation and Adaptation (Senate testimony)
• Fingerprints of global warming on wild animals and plants (Nature 421:57-60 (2003))
• Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and Food Supply

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization, 2004, Brian Fagan, Anthropologist (Amazon)

• Guardian review 1
• Guardian review 2

The Physics Factbook - topics (HS physics class projects)

• Number of Cars

Weart, Spencer (PhD astronomy, history)

The Discovery of Global Warming (250,000 word hypertext history of how scientists came to (partly) understand what people are doing to change the Earth's climate) (Amazon)

• Discovery of Global Warming files formatted for printing (pdf)
• Nature review
• "The Discovery of Global Warming" update - RealClimate (7/14/06)

Courses:

• Climate Change 1: The Earth’s Climate System (WH Berger, UCSD, html)
  • Climate Change Glossary
• Energy Economics, Spring 2007, MIT OpenCourseware
• Environmental Policy and Economics, Spring 2004, MIT OpenCourseware
• Geography H410: Global Climate and Environmental Change (Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Ice Core Paleoclimatology Research Group, Ohio State)
  • Links pro con news
• Global Climate Change (U Michigan)
  • Physical Processes
    • Lectures
  • Human Impacts
  • Human and Policy Dimensions of Global Climate Change
• Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, 2005 (PS134, U Chicago)
• Human Health & Global Environmental Change (Harvard Medical School)
• Survey of Meteorology Class Notes (index, Nolan Atkins, Lyndon State College)
  • Chapter 16 - Climate Change

Arguments - con:

• Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
• CEI - Competitive Enterprise Institute
  • Scare Mongering as Journalism: A Commentary on Time’s “Special Report” on Global Warming (4/06, pdf)
• Global Warming - Skepticism Net
• Global Warming - Cato Institute
• Global Warming - Cooler Heads Coalition, National Consumer Coalition
• Global Warming - Skepticism.Net
• Greening Earth Society (carbon dioxide fertilization)
• Hot Talk, Cold Science -  S. Fred Singer Independent Institute book Amazon
• Inhofe, Senator James (R-Okla) Climate Change Update Senate floor speech
• JunkScience.com
• Key Issues - The Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) S. Fred Singer
• Luboš Motl's reference frame
• Climate Change - Marshall Institute: Science for Better Public Policy
• Michael Crichton (State of Fear)
• Reason Public Policy Institute: Environment, Health and Safety Program
• World Climate Report - Archive (Patrick Michaels, U Virginia)

denialism/catasrophism arguments:

• ANOTHER ATTACK ON GLOBAL WARMING’S SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS A Case Study of Personal Harassment and Amplification of Nonsense by the Denialist PR Machine (JR Mashey, pdf)

Wikipedia:

• Global warming
• Global warming controversy
• List of scientists opposing global warming consensus

courses:

• EAS 6140: Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans (JA Curry, Georgia Institute Tech)
  • readings

blogs, web news:

• A Few Things Ill Considered (Coby Beck)
  • How to Talk to a Global Warming Sceptic (2/19/06)
  • The CO2 Rise is Natural (3/24/06)
  • The Hockey Stick is Broken (3/2/9/06)
• BBC News
  • Boost to CO2 mass extinction idea (8/05, html)
• The Becker-Posner Blog
  • Global Warming - - Posner's Response to Comments (2/11/07)
  • Global Warming and Discount Rates - - Posner (2/4/07)
  • Discounting Greenhouse Gas Effects in Distant Future - Becker (2/04/07)
• Climate Ark
  • Amazon rainforest 'could become a desert' (7/23/06)
• Climate Audit (Steve McIntyre, mineral exploration businessman (SourceWatch), Ross McKitrick, economist, U Guelph (SourceWatch) - con)
• Climate Change Action
• Climate Progress: An insider's view of climate science, politics and solutions
• Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group Weblog (new blog site)
  • Book Available “Contributions of Agriculture to the State of Climate” (2/16/07)
• Climate Science (old blog site- Colorado State climate scientists)
  • A Breath Of Fresh Air In the Media On Climate Reporting - An Interview and Article By Andy Revkin (1/1/07)
• Climatewire.org: Climate Change Information Service
• Crumb Trail
  • Hack the Spew (9/9/03)
• Deltoid (Tim Labert)
  • Simon Caldwell is a liar (12/12/07)
  • You, too, can be a distinguished climate scientist (12/10/07)
  • Fred Seitz, the $45 million man (4/17/06)
• Drovers (registration required for article access)
  • Livestock’s long shadow? By Greg Henderson (Tuesday, October 16, 2007)
• EnviroSpin Watch (Philip Stott, Professor emeritus of biogeography, SourceWatch article)
  • Further rusty nails in the coffin lid of the Kyoto Protocol..... (10/7/05)
  • "The daft, hairshirt policy" that is the Kyoto Protocol..... (10/6/05)
  • Why 'Green Bunnies' will always be 'Unhappy Bunnies' (or the rage of impotence)..... (10/9/05)
• Framing Science - old Framing Science - Matthew Nisbet, American University, formerly Ohio State - old website
  • In Latest Survey, Only 23% of College Educated Republicans Believe Global Warming Is Caused By Human Activities (1/24/07)
  • LOCKED IN A POLITICAL KNIFE FIGHT? Huffington Post Responds to Framing Science on the Challenge of Communicating Global Warming (1/10/07)
  • COMMUNICATING CLIMATE CHANGE: Revkin Describes an "Invisible Middle" of Scientists Concerned Over 'Pandora's Box' Claims of Pending Catastrophe (1/2/07)
  • KRUGMAN'S ORWELLIAN VISION: Swift Boating the Planet; If Gore Runs, He Better Be Prepared for Claims That He Lies About Global Warming (5/29/06)
  • WHY GORE NEVER CAMPAIGNED ON GLOBAL WARMING: And Why His New Method of "Disintermediation" Might Work (5/18/06)
• FuturePundit
  • Big Electric CO2 Emissions Reduction Hard To Do? (2/17/07)
• Global Issues that Affect Everyone (Anup Shah) - Environmental Issues - Climate Change / Global Warming
• GristMill
  • My problem with Revkin's article (1/3/07) - silent middle ground in the climate debate
  • How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic
• Mark Lynas - blog (climate change author)
• Mises.org Weblog
  • Deniers at Large! (2/19/07)
• Monbiot
  • Small is useless (10/6/06) - microgeneration can't solve climate change
• Muck and Mystery
  • Tough Tucker (7/23/07)
  • Wild Claims (7/19/07)
  • More Cranks (7/12/07)
  • Money Trees (2/15/07)
  • Interesting Grafs (2/11/07)
  • Everything I know . . is wrong (7/7/06)
  • Present Perfect (9/15/06) - failure to recognize the inevitability of technological change
  • Type M Sleaze (4/18/06)
• Nature News - Earth and environment - archive
• Newsweek
  • The Truth About Denial (8/13/07)
• Novositi
  • A cold spell soon to replace global warming (Oleg Sorokhtin,1/3/08) - claim CO₂ is not climate driver
• Overcoming Bias
  • Overcoming Bias Sometimes Makes us Change our Minds, but Sometimes Not (7/17/07)
  • Global Warming Skeptics Charge Believers with more Cognitive Biases than Believers do Skeptics: Why the asymmetry? (7/9/07)
• Physics-L
  • petition packet - Fred Seitz (10/14/07)
• Prometheus
  • Reality Check (12/13/07) - LA Times article on recipe to head off global warming
  • Real Climate Comment (1/3/07) - comment on "Consensus as the New Heresy" response to Revkin New York Times article
• RealClimate (blog - climate scientist responses - pro)
  • Contributors
  • Consensus as the New Heresy (1/3/07) - Revkin New York Times article
  • Gray and Muddy Thinking about Global Warming (4/26/06)
  • Michael Crichton's State of Confusion
  • More on the Artic (5/22/06)
  • On a Weakening of the Walker Circulation (6/1/06)
• Resilience Science
  • How humans affected the climate system for 8000 years (7/22/07)
  • Future Oceans: Warming Up, Rising High, Turning Sour (6/2/06)
  • Resilience networks in global environmental change science (6/24/06)
  • Balance, Bias, and Complexity in Climate Change Journalism (4/17/06)
  • Climate change, smoking, and gaming mental models (4/18/06)
• Resource Insights (Kurt Cobb)
  • Bjorn Lomborg gets confused about global warming (4/29/07)
• Science Daily (news)
  • Agriculture
  • Earth and Climate
  • Earth Sciences
  • Environment
  • Matter and Energy
  • posts:
    • Faster Climate Change Means Bigger Problems (9/2/07)
• Spiked - Global Warming
• Stoat
  • GW, methane and vegetarianism:  9/6/06
  • Poor headlines: meat and CO2 1/6/06
• Tech Central Station (con)
• The Commons: Markets Protecting the Environment (I Murray, JH Adler - free market environmentalism)
  • The Environmental Wars - Skeptics Society Conference (6/4/06)
• The Ergosphere
  • Braking before the environment crash (4/26/06)
• The Intersection (Chris Mooney)
  • What Does "Non-Skeptic Heretic" Mean? (1/2/07) - comment on Revkin New York Times article
• The New York Times
  • topics - Global Warming
• The Scientist
  • Climate change (1/08)
• Washington Post
  • The Tempest (5/28/06)
• WorldChanging
  • The Best Climate Change Websites (7/11/07)
  • A new model for understanding the climate (constructal theory 2/9/06)
    • Adrian Bejan
  • Abrupt climate change - How bad could it be? (1/10/06)

Why Files

• Global Warming - Beyond a reasonable doubt (2002)

WordIQ

• Global Warming skepticism

Sourcewatch:

• Global warming skeptics

Wikipedia:

• Carbon dioxide sink
• Climate Change
• Climatology
  • Global Warming
  • Global warming controversy
  • History of Climate
    • Temperature record of the last 1,000 years
• Dansgaard-Oeschger events (Dansgaard, Willi)
• Global warming skeptics
• History of climate
  • Maunder Minimum
  • Milankovitch cycles
  • Orbital forcing
• List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming
• Wikimedia images
  • Vostok plots

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Systems and System Dynamics - Earth Systems / Ecology / Ecosystems

Unique Keywords:

biogeochemistry (Wikipedia)

AAAS Forum: Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development

• Core Questions of Science and Technology for Sustainability
• Framework
• Publications - key overview documents

CIESD - Center for Interdisciplinary Excellence in System Dynamics

CLE - Creative Learning Exchange

• MSST - Demo Dozen & Modeling Systems Self-Taught

Complexity Digest

ESSP: Earth Systems Science Partnership

Entropy and Human Activity (course - RD Piccard, Ohio U)

Review of "Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies" (C Perrow)

IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

International Society for the Systems Sciences

• The Primer Project: A General Principle of Systems in general

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

• Overview of Reports
• Board Statement Living Beyond Our Means: Natural Assets and Human Well-being (pdf - BBC pdf )

MIT System Dynamics in Education Project

• Road Maps: A Guide to Learning System Dynamics - toc

NASA

• Visible Earth - catalog of images and animations

REAP - Resource and Energy Analysis Program - UK Ecological Budget

• Ecological Footprints: The journey so far, 2006 (pdf)

Resilience Alliance - dynamics of social-ecological systems

• Key concepts

RILES - ReSource Institute for Low Entropy Systems

Santa Fe Institute

• Emergence, Organization & Dynamics of Living Systems

Sterling Insights blog

• The 4-Rs Sustainability Framework
  • PART 1 > A Change of Mind
  • PART 2 > Change of Conditions - “Critical State”
  • PART 3 > Changing Beliefs & Working the Grieving Process
  • Part 4 > Changing Frameworks: Introducing the 4-R’s of Sustainability
  • PART 5 > Fundamental Measures > Robustness
  • PART 6 > Fundamental Measures > Resilience
• Top 10 Tasks - Quick Start Your Neighborhood Disaster Recovery

Sustainability Institute (DH Meadows, founder)

• The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind, 1974 (Amazon)
  • Revisiting The Limits to Growth: Could The Club of Rome Have Been Correct, After All? (Matthew Simmons comment on)
  • Cassandra's curse: how "The Limits to Growth" was demonized (The Oil Drum 3/9/08)
  • Obnoxiously wrong (GristMill 8/31/06)
  • counter - World Dynamics: Measurement without data (WD Nordhaus, Econ J 83(332):1156-1183, 1973, pdf)
  • LTG - wiki
• Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, 2004 (Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows, Amazon)
  • Synopsis of Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Update (2004, pdf)
  • book synopsis
  • counter - Smil, V. 2005. Limits to Growth revisited: A review essay. Population and Development Review. 31: 157-164. (pdf)
• Dennis Meadows
  • Limits to Growth: The 30-year update (ppt)
• DH Meadows The Global Citizen archive (2nd copy)
• Opinion Columns
• Tools & Resources - Papers

• Commodity System Challenges: moving sustainability into the mainstream of natural resource economies (pdf 420k)
• Dancing with systems (DH Meadows, Whole Earth Winter 2001 html)
• Indicators and Information Systems for Sustainable Development (DH Meadows, pdf 408k)
• Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System (DH Meadows, 1999, pdf )
• Counter - Mental Tools (Muck and Mystery blog 10/03)

SDEP - System Dynamics in Education Project

• Road Maps - TOC

System Dynamics Society

• Jay W. Forrester - bio (DC Lane)

System Dynamics on the World Wide Web

Systems Thinking

Vulnerability Network & Observatory

• bibliographies
• on-line documents
  • Vulnerability: A View From Different Disciplines Jeffrey Alwang Paul B. Siegel Steen L. Jørgensen June 2001 (pdf)

texts:

• Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Policy Responses, 2005 (KR Chopra, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Program, Responses working group, Google book, chapters)
• Foghorns to the Future: Using Knowledge and Transdisciplinarity to Navigate Complex Systems (Ecology & Society 10(2), html pdf)
• Emergent Phenomena and Complexity (V Darley, pdf)
• Resilience and sustainability: Integrated research on social-ecological systems (C Folke pdf)

The Agriculture: necessary and vulnerable (F Gunther)

• Energy use of a family
• On different system behaviours in relation to storage or flow
• What can you do for yourself: some diverse advice
• Eating Fossil Fuels (DA Pfeiffer)
• THE OIL WE EAT: Following the food chain back to Iraq Richard Manning, Harper's Magazine, Feb2004, Vol. 308, Issue 1845 (2nd site)

people:

• Forrester, Jay - professor emeritus and founder, MIT System Dynamics Group
  • publications
    • Counterintuitive behavior of social systems (1971, updated 1995, pdf 2nd site)
    • Designing the future (1998, pdf)
• Fuller, R. Buckminster - Buckminster Fuller Institute
  • Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
  • Wikipedia
• Mandelbrot, Benoit - wiki
• Taleb, Nassim - wiki
  • Top Theorists Examine Rippling Economic Turbulence (PBS NewsHour 10/21/08)

courses:

• Consilience: Case studies in Complex Adaptive Systems (Princeton)

blogs:

• Michael Byron's Blog - Infinity's Rainbow: The Politics of Energy, Climate and Globalization
  • In a system you can't do just one thing. . . (10/26/06)
• Muck and Mystery
  • R.I.P (3/23/06)
  • Wetter and Wilder (3/23/06)
• The Oil Drum
  • The Failure of Networked Systems: The Repercussions of Systematic Risk (10/24/08)
  • The World Energy Modeling Project (8/7/07)

Wikipedia:

• Jay W. Forrester
• System dynamics
• Systems theory
• Systems thinking

Earth Systems:

Earth System Science Center, U Alabama Huntsville

ESSC - Earth System Science Center, Penn State U

Biogeochemistry Cycles:

Figures summarizing the global cycles of biologically active elements (WS  Reeburgh, U Calif-Irvine, Bull. Ecol. Society of America 78(4):260-267 (1997))

Food Consumption and Disruption of the Nitrogen Cycle (pdf)

Nitrogen management and the future of food: Lessons from the management of energy and carbon (RH Socolow, pdf)

Earth Observatory - NASA - earth images, datasets

Earth System Modeling Group (UK)

• Publications
  • Climbing the co-evolutionary ladder: Earth history involves tightly entwined transitions of information and the environment, but where is this process heading? Nature 431:913, 2004 (pdf)
  • (2004). Long-term Geosphere-Biosphere Coevolution and Astrobiology. Earth System Analysis for Sustainability, Dahlem Workshop Report 91.  The MIT Press: 111-139.(pdf)
• Research topics
• EarthComm Earth System: Science in the Community (Am Geological Institute)
• ESSC 500 Earth Systems and Global Change (RE Ford, S Dunbar, Loma Linda)
• Earth System Science (on-line class GEOL 3923H, SK Boss, U Arkansas)
• Earth System Science Education Web site (U Oklahoma)
• Earth System Science Online (Universities Space Research Association)
• Exploring the Dynamics of Earth Systems (D Bice, Carleton)
• Globe 2003: Earth as a System

Earth System Science (School of Physical Sciences - UC Irvine)

Zender, Charles S. - aerosols, biogeochemical modeling

SCOPE - Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment

• SCOPE 13 - The Global Carbon Cycle - TOC
  • The Effects of Man on the Biogeochemical Cycle of Carbon in Terrestrial Ecosystems - html

Trophic Cascades Program - OSU

• Range Contractions of North American Carnivores and Ungulates

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (UK consortium - Dr. Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber)

People:

• Lovelock, James E. - essays, lectures and other writings - wikipedia
  • Blue Planet Prize, 1997
  • The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity, 2005 (Amazon)
    • American Scientist review, 9/06
    • The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years (Lovelock comment in The Independent, 1/16/06)
    • Updating Prescriptions for Avoiding Worldwide Catastrophe (NY Times interview, 9/12/06)
    • The End of Eden (Washington Post, 9/2/06)
    • con - We're Unworthy (Muck and Mystery, 9/14/06)
  • Wikipedia: Gaia hypothesis
    • The Gaia Hypothesis (partial on-line version)
• Schlesinger, WH, Dept Botany and Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Duke University
  • Better living through biogeochemistry. Ecology. 85(9):2402-2407, 2004 (pdf)
  • Carbon Sequestration in Soils, Science 284(5423)2095, 1999 (html)

Texts:

• Biogeochemistry (WH Schlesinger, ed, 2005, Amazon)
  • The Contemporary Carbon Cycle (Houghton, RA pdf)
• Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change (WH Schlesinger, 1997, Amazon)
• Earth System Analysis for Sustainability Dahlem Workshop Reports, 2004 (HJ Schellnhuber, PJ Crutzen, WC Clark, M Claussen, H Held, MIT Press, Amazon)
• Elemental Geosystems, 4th ed., 2003 (Amazon)
  • book website
• Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet Under Pressure (Global Change - The IGBP Series) (Amazon)
  • book website
  • Executive summary
  • Nature review
• The Earth System, 2^nd ed.2003 (Amazon)
• The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change. MIT Press, 2003  ( Smil, Vaclav, Amazon)

Papers:

• The Contemporary Carbon Cycle (Houghton, RA pdf)

Journals:

• Biogeochemistry
• Global Biogeochemical Cycles (journal website)

Course materials:

• Mitchell, Myron J., SUNY (website - links to course lectures & readings)
• RLEM 602: Ecology and Land Use, Thomas W. Boutton, Dept. Rangeland Ecology and Mgmt, Texas A&M
• RLEM 622: Nutrient Cycling: Global and Ecosystem Perspectives, Thomas W. Boutton, Dept. Rangeland Ecology and Mgmt, Texas A&M

Ecology / Ecosystems:

Agricultural Ecosystems and Agricultural Ecology - Ecological Sciences - USDA NRCS - Natural Resources Conservation Service

• Conquest of the Land Through 7,000 Years, 1975 (WC Lowdermilk, large pdf)

Agroecology (S Gliessman, UC Santa Cruz)

Carnegie Institution - Department of Global Ecology

• Global Consequences of Land Use (Science 309:570-574, 2005, html)

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UK)

Costanza, Robert - Gund Institute for Ecological Economics - University of Vermont - publications

• A Vision of the Future of Science: Reintegrating of the Study of Humans and the Rest of Nature (Futures 35:651-671, discussion paper html pdf)
• The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital (Nature 387:253 - 260, 1997 pdf, pdf2)
• Value theory and energy ( pdf)
• What is Ecological Economics? (Ecological Economics 1:1-7, 1989 pdf)

Danish Ecological Council (The Ecological Council)

• Sceptical Questions and Sustainable Answers (counter to Lomborg, pdf)

Dukes, Jeff, asst. prof, Dept of Biology, University of Massachusetts - Boston

• Bad Mileage: 98 tons of plants per gallon (html)
• Burning buried sunshine: human consumption of ancient solar energy. Climatic Change, 61(1-2): 31-44, 2003 (pdf)

Ecological Footprint:

Best Foot Forward

• Estimate your footprint

Global Footprint Network: Advancing the Science of Sustainability

• Africa's Ecological Footprint: Human Well-Being and Biological Capital
• World Overshoot Day

Redefining Progress

• Ecological Footprint Methods
  • Components
•  Publications - include ecological footprint assessments

• Rees, William, Professor of population ecology, School of Community & Regional Planning, U British Colombia
  • Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth, 1995 (Amazon)
  • Aurora Interview Collection Online interview, 2000
  • Bill Rees speaks with Julian Darley transcript, 2003, Global Public Media: Public Service Broadcasting for a Post Carbon World
  • Dr. William Rees speaks with Julian Darley transcripts, 2004, Global Public Media: Public Service Broadcasting for a Post Carbon World
  • Our Ecological Footprint: When Consumption Does Violence html, 2002 html, Environment Canada Policy Research Seminar Series
  • Revisiting Carrying Capacity: Area-Based Indicators of Sustainability (Dieoff archive html, Population and Environment, 17(3), 1996)
  • There's no fuel like an old fuel, 2000 html
  • Sustainability Now presentations index
    • Energy Supply and Pricing for a Sustainable Future (paper)
    • Why Cities are inherently unsustainable (presentation)
• Sharing Nature's Interest: Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability, 2001 (Amazon)
  • review - heretical con
• Wackernagel, Mathis
  • Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy (PNAS 99(14):9266-9271, pdf)

blogs, news:

• BBC News
  • Planet enters 'ecological debt' (10/9/06)
  • The living planet: facts and figures (10/24/06)
• FuturePundit
  • Humans Use Nearly A Quarter Of World Biomass? (7/7/07)
• Science
  • Global Consequences of Land Use, 2005 (Science 309(5734):570-574, abstract)

Ecological Science and Sustainability for a Crowded Planet
ESA's Ecological Visions Project

• Report (2004 - pdf)

Ecosystem Services: A Primer

ESA - Ecology Society of America

• Ecology course syllabus exchange
• Issues in Ecology (index)
  • Ecosystem Services: Benefits Supplied to Human Societies by Natural Ecosystems (pdf)
  • Human Alteration of the Global Nitrogen Cycle: Cause and Consequences (pdf)
  • Nonpoint Pollution of Surface Waters with Phosphorus and Nitrogen  (pdf)
  • Sustaining Healthy Freshwater Ecosystems (pdf)
  • Water in a changing world (pdf)

Ecosystem Restoration - Environmental Defense Fund

Grant, Bruce W. (Widener U)

• "Campus Ecology" as a Means to Urban Environmental Literacy
  http://www.ecostudies.org/cary8/grant/grant.html.
• ESA - EdWeb
  http://www.science.widener.edu/~grant/esa/edweb.html

Hungate, Bruce A. (Ecosystem Ecology, Northern Arizona University)

• BIO 471 and BIO 571 Microbial Ecology Spring 2005
• Ecosystem Ecology

Millenium Ecosystem Assessment: Strengthening capacity to manage ecosystems sustainability for human well-being (2nd site)

• Synthesis Reports (index, pdf downloads)
• The Mooney Group (Harold A. Mooney, Professor of Biological Sciences, Stanford)

People:

• Brown, A. D.
  • Feed or Feedback: Agriculture, Population Dynamics and the State of the Planet, 2003  Amazon
    • Nine Laws of Ecological Bloodymindedness pdf
    • book webpage
    • review pdf
    • review pdf
• Lotka, Alfred J.
  • wikipedia
• Peterson, Garry McGill U
  • Resilience Science (blog)
  • Scenario Planning

ISI HighlyCited

• Stenseth, Nils Christian (html)

People and Rangeland Ecosystems (WR Travis, U Colorado)

• Reading list

Siry, Joseph - Ecology homepage, Rollins College

Southwings: Conservation through aviation in the Southland

The Earth's Carrying Capacity: Some literature reviews (B Sundquist)

The State of the Nation's Ecosystems (2005) - The H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment

• Ecosystem extent

WRI

• The Wealth of the Poor: Managing ecosystems to fight poverty (REPORT SERIES: World Resources 2005)

Courses:

• ESPM 118: Agroecology (Miguel A. Altieri, UC Berkeley)
  • Articles & Reports
• ESSP 301A: Ecosystem Services
• Zoology 725: Ecosystems Concepts (S. Carpenter, U Wisc)

Wikipedia - Ecology

• Ecology

Texts:

• Ecology in the Underworld (Science special issue)

Blogs

• Forest Policy - Forest Practice
• How to change the world
  • How to change anything (8/27/03) - systems thinking
• Resilience Science (Garry Peterson, McGill School of the Environment)
  • Enhancing ecosystem services in agricultural lands (7/03/07)
  • ATEAM: Modeling ecosystem services (4/19/06)
  • Fortune Article on Ecological Resilience: Cloudy With a Chance of Chaos (3/14/06)
  • Urban ecology & the World Urban Forum - Urban Solutions (6/20/06)
• Resource Insights
  • Too complex to fail? (8/12/08)
  • Is just-in-time nearly out of time? (8/13/06)
• The Crumb Trail (dead domain as of 12/05)
  • Cereal Killer (3/27/04)
  • Dirt Glue (10/31/03)
  • Earthy Breath (6/06/05)
  • Mycorrhizosphere (10/8/05)
  • Plowman's Folly (3/15/04) - refers to No-till farming offers a quick fix to help ward off host of global problems (Ohio State press release)
  • Talking Dirty (6/16/04) - Wounding Earth's Fragile Skin (Science 304:1616-1618 html)
  • Twice as Nice (6/12/04)
• The Oil Drum
  • Burning Buried Sunshine (9/27/06)
• What's Your Ecotype (Ian Parnell)
  • Green Grazing: Water, Flying Food, Ground-level Ozone, Farmland Biodiversity and Colony Collapse Disorder (7/28/07)
  • The Road to Pandemonium: A Review of Andrew Nikiforuk’s Book ‘Pandemonium: Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease, and Other Biological Plagues of the 21st Century (7/27/07)
• WorldChanging
  • Ecological handprints: Population and the limits of possibility (5/30/06)
  • What's a forest worth? More than you might think (12/3/05)

Wikipedia - Soil Science

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