Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
All the foods at Porta Palazzo share something in common. You can trace each type of food to a particular ecosystem and a particular way of life for the people who inhabit (or once inhabited) that ecosystem.
It is difficult to say whether our eating habits are driven by changes in the food system or vice versa.
When we hit the distribution issue, we see the challenge of taking on the Goliaths of the food world with nothing but a slingshot in the form of a pickup truck.
From Chapter 4 (Energy) of the latest Resilience guide, ‘Rebuilding the Foodshed’. This is a heck of a chapter…If you eat food, grow food, use energy, create energy, or make waste, you’ll find yourself fascinated.
Vandana Shiva goes hip-hop!? A serious message is packed into this comedic musical video. Warning – this might make you choke on your breakfast.
While researching the topic of sustainable agriculture for a paper, high school junior Rhian Moore came across the work of PCI Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg. Rhian reached out to Richard for more information on the topic. Below are Rhian’s questions and Richard’s brief responses. We think they make for a nice primer of sorts.
Read the transcript from our live webchat about natural gas. David Hughes (author of ‘Will Natural Gas Fuel America in the 21st Century?’), Michael Bomford and Richard Gilbert answer questions from readers.
At this year’s Soil Association conference I was chatting with Mike Small of the Fife Diet in Scotland. He told a story about how a film crew from Sky News came up to Fife to do a news story about their work. While they were filming, Mike chatted to the director and asked him what was the angle on the story. "Well", said the director, "it’s about a community eating local food". "Amazing to think that that’s now seen as news!" said Mike. Of course, now such a thing is news, so bizarrely distorted has our food system (and our media, but that’s another story) become. Unfortunately the sprawling monster that actually now feeds most of us isn’t news, but only because it is so well hidden, something that the excellent new film "Food Inc" tries to change.
