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Agricultural phosphorus shortage made worse by biofuels?
This article will be published shortly in: “Australian Resources and Investment Magazine”. Professor Christopher J. Rhodes, Director of Fresh-lands Environmental Actions, Reading UK. cjrhodes@fresh-lands.com World rock phosphate production is set to peak by 2030. Since the material provides fertilizer for agriculture, the consequences are likely to be severe, and worsened by the increased production of […]
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The Deep, Dark Gold.
Pouring, winding from the wound, riven deep in the Earth’s good side; the black blood pulses that twists the mainspring, driving the human surface mechanics. Oil is transformed into money – black gold fabricates paper-transactions and promises. The price of a barrel, sprung on a delicate fulcrum, pitching joy into stultification and despair. Riven side […]
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“Reading Means Business on Climate Change.”
I did put some thoughts together prompted in part by a chat I had with Tony Pettit, who is a consultant for Reading Council, and whom I met at the above entitled event on January 12th (2012) at Reading University, “Transition Town Reading and London Commuting”, http://ergobalance.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/trasition-town-reading-and-london.html, in reference to the daily commute. In part […]
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Nut Tree Planting, Apple Press and building momentum
It’s taken a little while to get around to writing this post, but I thought we should have something on the site to say that the first phase of the Palmer Park edible planting took place on Saturday 3rd March with a number of Sweet Chestnut and Walnut trees beingplanted around the stadium by TTR […]
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Can Solar Fuels Prevent an Imminent Petroluem Fuels Crisis?
In a nutshell, the answer to the question posed in the title of this article is, “No”. The full article can be found at http://ergobalance.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/can-solar-fuels-prevent-imminent.html It will also be published in the next issue of the journal Science Progress. I am merely putting the concluding section here, which refers to localisation and Transition Towns. Overall […]
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Press Release: Palmer Park goes nuts for local food
Transition Town Reading begins community food gardening project with Nut Tree planting in Palmer Park. Transition Town Reading, a local community group exploring life after cheap oil, has begun a program of edible planting projects in public spaces around Reading with a nut tree planting in Palmer Park. The planting took place on Saturday 3rd […]
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Transition Play to be Performed at Reading Water Fest (2012).
Members of the fanSHEN theatre company (www.fanshen.org.uk) are making a play entitled “Green and Pleasant Land”. As they describe it: “this is the story of a search for a happier, more environmentally sustainable future. Audience members will pedal bicycle-powered generators to play pre-recorded sound, all set and props will be recycled and it will tour […]
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Approach from Dr Richard Nunes at Reading University
This is my response to an email from Dr Nunes asking if we might be interested in his research on Transition in society at Reading University. The links are below his message if anyone is interested, along with his contact details.. I don’t see any direct connection between what they are doing and TT Reading […]
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The Thorium Age Waits in the Wings.
There is much written to the effect that thorium might prove a more viable nuclear fuel, and an energy industry based upon it, than the current uranium-based process which serves to provide both energy and weapons – including “depleted uranium” for armaments and missiles. There are different ways in which energy might be extracted from […]
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Thorium Nuclear Power – A Lesson From Norway.
Norway holds a resource of 170,000 tonnes of thorium, which amounts to 15% of the world’s total of 1.2 million tonnes. There is far more thorium than that within the earth’s crust all told, averaging 8 ppm compared with around 2.8 ppm for uranium, but the above figures refer to richer ores, most commonly monazite […]
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