Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Local sourcing and organic foods are among the top 20 hottest trends for 2009 for restaurants and it’s no wonder. People want tasty, clean, farm-fresh fruit and vegetables from farmers they know and they want to support their local communities and businesses
Organic sites on food-safety bills (HR 875, etc.)
G8 warns of hunger threat to global stability
Walker’s World: New food crisis looms
Archbishop makes credit crunch case for monastic lifestyle in Easter sermon
UK goes into ecological debt on Easter Sunday
Weak pound heaps food price inflation on poorest households
Mayor unveils plan to turn London into ‘electric car capital of Europe’
“Revolution on a Rooftop” author interviewed
Oil Giants Loath to Follow Obama’s Green Lead
Amid a sea of troubles, ethanol now has an antibiotics problem
Ethanol adds 0.5-0.8 points to U.S. food prices
Water crisis rocks LA, Mexico City; who’s next?
Peru faces water versus oil dilemma
Industrial farms could leave eastern Wash. with dry wells
Esther Duflo, a young French development economist is reinvigorating her profession by pioneering new anti-poverty strategies focused on experiment and evaluation.
Meet the veg doctor
Human Impacts on Ecosystems
Household Dry Food Cooking
Food Industry Pursues the Strategy of Big Tobacco
Will New Food Safety Bills Really Outlaw Backyard Gardening and End Farmers’ Markets?
Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies
White House May Postpone Auctioning Emissions
Reconciliation For Carbon Emissions?
Mayor Gregor Robertson lends support to UBC Farm, flags peak oil
Former Oilsands Exec Named Head of Climate Working Group
The Great Biodiesel Shutdown
Corndoggle
International Biochar Initiative Newsletter March 2009
Declaration: ‘Biochar’, a new big threat to people, land, and ecosystems
I half-jokingly suggested about a year ago that animal manure— used livestock, horse, and chicken bedding— was going to be the hottest commodity on the Chicago Board of Trade. There are indications now that such a seemingly absurd prediction might not be so absurd after all.
A bird in the yard is worth two in the shop
Urban Foraging – a Rising, Sustainable Fad
Fighting the recession, armed with seeds
New England’s sugar country confronts a bitter future as the climate warms
Slum cooker protects environment, helps poor
TOD: What are YOU Changing (*if anything), Individually, Locally, Nationally, etc?
Walking restores the world and humanity
Post Carbon Newsletter #48, March 2009
