Food & agriculture – April 19
TOD: Energy-conscious cuisine
Toronto exhibit highlights city dwellers growing own food
Beauty and the vegetable (insane EU regulations)
Organic White House garden puts some conventional panties in a twist
Food & Water
Farmers – April 18
For young Japanese, it’s back to the farm
Industrial hemp
7 steps to solving the food crisis
In praise of peasants
Food & agriculture – Apr 16
India’s Farming ‘Revolution’ Heading For Collapse
‘Green Revolution’ Trapping India’s Farmers In Debt
Punjab farmer suicides cast shadow on polls
What Your Neighborhood Needs is a Seed Library
Restaurateurs find local food advantageous to bottom line
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
Food & agriculture – Apr 14
Organic sites on food-safety bills (HR 875, etc.)
G8 warns of hunger threat to global stability
Walker’s World: New food crisis looms
Renewables & biofuels – Apr 13
“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
UK & Europe – Apr 13
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’
Water – April 11
Water crisis rocks LA, Mexico City; who’s next?
Peru faces water versus oil dilemma
Industrial farms could leave eastern Wash. with dry wells
Social change based on modest assumptions
Esther Duflo, a young French development economist is reinvigorating her profession by pioneering new anti-poverty strategies focused on experiment and evaluation.
Food & agriculture – Apr 10
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?
United States and Canada – Apr 9
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
Biofuels & biochar – Apr 9
The Great Biodiesel Shutdown
Corndoggle
International Biochar Initiative Newsletter March 2009
Declaration: ‘Biochar’, a new big threat to people, land, and ecosystems
