Building Urban Food Resilience
Central to Permaculture is the idea of creating resilient systems.
Food & Water
Real Food Media Contest Features Oyster Men of Long Island Sound
The Oyster Men features the daily lives of baymen who handpick oysters from wild populations on the Long Island Sound.
If We’re Serious about Saving Bees and Butterflies, Here’s What We Should Do
If pollinator health is made a priority, to be successful much current policy and practice must change.
Get Growing Breightmet: Bolton’s food growing revolution begins here!
If you have a fairly spacious garden like many of the people we work with have, growing your own food in times of extreme economic uncertainty is a practical and direct solution that many people are just opening their eyes to…
Mali: Agroecology Is in our Hands!
“I decided to come here because we are building a necessary movement, that will claim back what was always ours: our peasant knowledge of doing agriculture”, said a woman farmer from Mali, as she was running to attend the women caucus, this afternoon.
Pay-As-You-Feel Cafe Feeds Thousands on Food Waste
The idea behind TRJFP is to collect perfectly good food from grocers, farmers and businesses, that would otherwise be thrown away, and serve up gourmet meals to the community. Patrons pay using money, labor, or other social currency.
Do Warmer Winters Mean Less Fruit?
Californians have been enjoying summer weather in the dead of winter, but the downside is that unseasonably warm temperatures could threaten many of our favorite foods.
Leaf Cutters
Think of the presence of leaf cutter ants as being an indicator of an ecosystem out of balance, of being a cure for damaged soils.
Climate Change Poses Existential Water Risks
We often hear it said that climate change is too abstract to win the support needed to effectively combat it.
A Commons Grows in Frogtown
Artist Seitu Jones and neighbors create a groundbreaking park in St. Paul’s poorest and most diverse neighborhood
Conflicts in the food, energy, land and water nexus
Shortage of one resource (land) can partly be compensated with another (water), but what happens if all of them are scarce? We see today that the market does not distribute scarce resources to those who are poor: if resources become scarcer the poor will be further disenfranchised. In more extreme cases the rich will drive their cars with fuels made from food crops that the poor cannot afford to buy and lack the resources to produce themselves.
What Role for Grazing Livestock?
The Sustainable Food Trust recently organised a meeting to consider the question, ‘What role for grazing livestock in a world of climate change and diet-related disease?’
