Articles tagged “Peak Everything”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Use Less Water in Your Garden By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Jun 6 2008 Having a garden can be a fun, rewarding, green experience, especially in the summer, when everything blooms and all your hard work brings beauty (and maybe even some food). If you want it to stay green, though, almost every garden is going to require some watering, but it doesn't have to send your water meter spinning out of control and your water bill skyrocketing. + READ MORE

Peak Everything: Learn About Peak Metal By Lloyd Alter IN Work & Connect May 27 2008 This post is part of a series in which we look at why those basic things that we take for granted--such as water, food, and fuel--are getting expensive and scarce, all at once.Demand for products made from metals is exceeding production capacity; copper mines are expensive and environmentally controversial and... + READ MORE

Peak Everything: Learn About Peak Gas By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden May 14 2008 The headline in our local paper today: Natural gas bills to soar by 20 per cent What is going on?Conservation: The biggest use of gas is for heating; as the price increases there will be greater incentive to change to more efficient appliances.I changed a 50 year old furnace and water heater for a new instant-on unit... + READ MORE

Peak Everything: Learn about Peak Dirt By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden May 1 2008 This post is part of a series in which we look at why those basic things that we take for granted--such as water, food, and fuel--are getting expensive and scarce, all at once.In Australia, soil scientist Dick Haynes is making synthetic soil from fly ash, biproducts of aluminum processing, poultry litter and manure. + READ MORE

Peak Everything: Learn about Peak Water By Lloyd Alter IN Food & Health Apr 30 2008 This post is part of a series in which we look at why those basic things that we take for granted--such as water, food, and fuel--are getting expensive and scarce, all at once.Stop subsidizing water-hogging agriculture; re-work the distribution among the southwestern states; fix the distribution infrastructure and set... + READ MORE

Peak Everything: Learn about Peak Rice By Lloyd Alter IN Food & Health Apr 29 2008 This post is part of a series in which we look at why those basic things that we take for granted--such as water, food, and fuel--are getting expensive and scarce, all at once.When the governments of India and Vietnam saw the prices of grain skyrocket, they put in export restrictions to protect the local rice supply,... + READ MORE

Peak Everything: Learn About Peak Oil By Lloyd Alter IN Work & Connect Apr 24 2008 The first in a series where we look at why those basic things that we take for granted, like water, food and fuel are getting expensive and scarce, all at once.The economic boom of the last thirty years has lifted billions out of poverty around the world, and people are using their newfound wealth to buy things that we... + READ MORE