<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/geo_cover.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="67" height="100" /></span>The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one of scarcity. Over the last decade, world grain reserves have fallen by one third.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/tidal_backcover.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="76" height="100" /></span>September 17 (S17) is of course the one-year anniversary of the occupation of Zuccotti Park, a reclaiming of public space that galvanized the political imagination of the country and the

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/Planting-Food-150x150.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="100" /></span>This Spring my farming partners and I found ourselves landless...Last year I wrote an article, "Who Will Feed The People?", discussing the challenges to small-scale agriculture in

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/safety-net-300x225.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="75" /></span>The challenge today is to learn how to identify the need for and to accept help with emotional problems quickly, and to recognize that not doing so could mean taking an economic as well a

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/ASPO -USAlogo80.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="80" height="80" /></span>A weekly review including:<br />
-Oil and the Global Economy<br />
-The Middle East<br />
-The Oil Market Report<br />
-Quote of the Week<br />
-Briefs</p>

<p>There are unprecedented and widely unappreciated dangers posed to public health, nursing, medicine and allied health professions by the ongoing global economic contraction. This is a multilayered and, frankly, emotionally difficult topic to digest. Before discussing how health systems are affected we first lay out the larger social-ecological context of modern society’s predicament.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/water_pump_ghana_iwmi.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="80" /></span>Mega-dams and massive government-run irrigation projects are not the key to meeting world’s water needs, a growing number of experts now say.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/Bristol_PS_Specimen_fronts.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="56" /></span>September 19th will see the launch of the UK’s most ambitious and sophisticated community currency scheme - the city-wide Bristol Pound (£B).

<p>Under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new rule for oil and gas, companies have been allowed much greater freedom to book reserves. On the surface, there is a good argument to be made for expanding the definition of allowable booked reserves. But in practice, this may have opened the door to false valuations of shale assets.</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/ASPO -USAlogo80.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="80" height="80" /></span>A midweekly roundup of peak oil news, including:<br />
-Developments this week</p>

<p>...Kunstler has a new work of social criticism titled Too Much Magic, his first nonfiction book since The Long Emergency came out in 2005. The book is an inquiry into a skewed, delusional perception of reality that Kunstler thinks has become “baseline normal for the American public lately.” Americans, he says, have been led astray by the incredible technological advancements of recent times.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/america_possible_0.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="66" height="100" /></span>The path to a new political economy leads straight away from consumerism and commercialism to a very different world in which getting and spending, material possessions, and overall c

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/Are-you-better-off-TG27R7A4-x-large-e1347394938185.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="73" /></span>The US presidential election has taken a predictable turn with the rhetoric du jour that asks, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” T

<p>In the new book, "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt," journalist Chris Hedges and illustrator Joe Sacco look at the poorest areas in the United States, "sacrifice zones" where human beings and natural resources have been used and then abandoned.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/climate-riots_large.thumbnail.jpeg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="56" /></span>-An open letter to Owen Paterson, the new environment secretary<br>-“The 1%”: The Pluses and Minuses of an Historic Term