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Mundraub.org: Sharing our common fruit
In a rural area in the former East Germany, late summer 2009: Shimmering heat, the intense odor of fermenting fruits is in the air. A tree covered with hundreds of juicy pears, and a foot-high …
May 16, 2013
Counting the Calories and calories
As soon as we step out of our homes in pursuit of food, we cross an energy threshold that is worth considering.
May 16, 2013
The Corporate Enclosure of Seeds Intensifies
If you think that a farmer ought to be able to use the seeds from one crop in the next season, you are entertaining illegal ideas.
May 16, 2013
Lawns Of Purple and Gold
We burn 800 million gallons of gas mowing lawns, and statisticians say that we spill 17 million gallons every year just refilling our lawn machines. If so, …
May 15, 2013
Reexamining Rationing
Recent interviews with Stan Cox author of Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing and book excerpt.
May 15, 2013
Organic No-Till
Many farmers consider organic no-till the ‘holy grail’ of regenerative agriculture because it combines the best of both worlds: reduced soil …
May 14, 2013
Water - May 14
•Water increasingly crucial in energy policies, experts say •Acidification: the latest unknown for stressed Arctic ecosystem •Rivers Carry …
May 14, 2013
Food & agriculture - May 14
•Science as Dialogue: What My Garden and I Are Discussing in 2013 •Biofuels a big cause of famine •Food Price Inflation as …
May 13, 2013
Rethinking hot dinners and cold drinks
Data sometimes hurts, especially when it hits home. Just when it seemed like we could blame the farmer, the processor, and the distributor for our food …
May 10, 2013
Food ENERGY: Processing
It is difficult to say whether our eating habits are driven by changes in the food system or vice versa.
May 9, 2013
The global land grab: The new enclosures
Consider this. It is 1607. The English have been taking lands in Ireland for several centuries. First written down in the 7th century, Irish customary law …
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