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Peak soil: industrial civilisation is on the verge of eating itself
Posted by Guardian: Nafeez Ahmed on June 7th, 2013
Guardian: A new report says that the world will need to more than double food production over the next 40 years to feed an expanding global population. But as the world's food needs are rapidly increasing, the planet's capacity to produce food confronts increasing constraints from overlapping crises that, if left unchecked, could lead to billions facing hunger.
The UN projects that global population will grow from today's 7 billion to 9.3 billion by mid-century. According to the report released last week...
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Comments Off on Peak soil: industrial civilisation is on the verge of eating itselfL.A. Now Live: Poll shows Californians concerned about fracking
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 7th, 2013
LA Times: As energy companies seek to plumb vast reserves of underground oil in California through the controversial drilling technique known as fracking, voters are concerned about its safety and uneasy with the state's lack of oversight, according to a new poll.
Join us at 9 a.m. as we discuss the findings with Times Sacramento Bureau Chief Evan Halper.
More than half of voters -- 58% -- say they favor a moratorium on the process of injecting chemicals deep into the ground to tap oil and natural gas...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on L.A. Now Live: Poll shows Californians concerned about frackingBritish Gas owner Centrica in talks to buy shale fracking stake
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 7th, 2013
Guardian: The British Gas owner Centrica is in talks with Britain's leading fracking company about buying a stake in its most promising acreage just months after playing down the prospects for shale gas.
Sources have confirmed to the Guardian that discussions are ongoing between Cuadrilla Resources and Centrica over the sale of a stake in the Bowland shale in the north-west of England.
A second shale operator, IGas, said earlier this week that estimates of its resources were considerably higher than...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on British Gas owner Centrica in talks to buy shale fracking stakeCalifornians uneasy about fracking’s safety, lack of oversight
Posted by LA Times: Evan Halper on June 7th, 2013
LA Times: As energy companies seek to plumb vast reserves of underground oil in California through the controversial drilling technique known as fracking, voters are concerned about its safety and uneasy with the state's lack of oversight, according to a new poll.
More than half of voters -- 58% -- say they favor a moratorium on the process of injecting chemicals deep into the ground to tap oil and natural gas deposits embedded in rock until an independent commission has studied its environmental effects....
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