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May 14, 2013
by Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•Science as Dialogue: What My Garden and I Are Discussing in 2013
•Biofuels a big cause of famine
•Food Price Inflation as Redistribution: Towards a New Analysis of Corporate Power in the World Food System
•Over half the world's population could rely on food imports by …
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May 6, 2013
by Christian Ford, Hogsalt
The first thing to know is that illth is a real word which you can find in Volume VII of the Oxford English Dictionary. It was coined in 1860 by John Ruskin, the English writer, artist, philanthropist and all-around too-smart-guy-with-spot-on-taste. Ruskin, from his vantage point in the cockpit …
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Apr 30, 2013
by Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
• The Trouble with Biofuels: Costs and Consequences of Expanding Biofuel Use in the United Kingdom
•Dance of the Honey Bee
•The benefits of alternative farming methods
•A Brief History of Our Deadly Addiction to Nitrogen Fertilizer
•Connecting the Dots: the Big …
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Apr 17, 2013
by Sophie Wenzlau, Nourishing the Planet
Continuing a decade-long increase, global food prices rose 2.7 percent in 2012, reaching levels not seen since the 1960s and 1970s but still well below the price spike of 1974. Between 2000 and 2012, the World Bank global food price index increased 104.5 percent, at an average annual rate of 6.5 …
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Jan 16, 2013
by Terrence McNally, Lester Brown
, Terrence McNally podcast
In his newest book, Full Planet, Empty Plates, Lester Brown writes..."The U.S. Great Drought of 2012 has raised corn prices to the highest level in history. The world price of food, which has already doubled over the last decade, is slated to climb higher, ushering in a new wave of food …
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Jan 11, 2013
by Gail Tverberg, Our Finite World
We have been hearing a lot about escaping the fiscal cliff, but our problem isn’t solved. The fixes to date have been partial and temporary. There are many painful decisions ahead. Based on what I can see, the most likely outcome is that the US economy will enter a severe recession by the …
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Dec 11, 2012
by Alex Smith, Radio Ecoshock
Food prices are rising due to climate, peak oil and poor economy. Best time to start your city on Victory Gardens. Speech by Lamanda Joy to Great Lakes Bioneers tells how. With intro on food prices in Canada, UK, Australia, USA, clips from WWII garden propaganda.
