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
Food & Water
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
Manure More Precious Than Gold
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.
Food & agriculture – Apr 8
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
Climate & environment – Apr 7
Ice bridge holding Antarctic ice shelf cracks up
California faces greater risk from global warming
Arctic meltdown is a threat to humanity
Climate Change Changes Everything
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 7
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
Food & agriculture – Apr 7
Great Depression Cooking with 93-year-old Clara Cannucciari
Small farms fear bearing brunt of new food safety regulations
Backyard Revolution(video and transcript)
Food & agriculture – April 5
American ingenuity in Haiti (composting toilets)
To urban hunter, next meal is scampering by
Small farms, big rules
Loggers try to adapt to greener economy
Some Seriously Good Sh- er…Manure
One way or another, we’re going to have to deal with the fact that in the US, the major source of manure comes from an animal with two legs, a large brain and a beer can ;-). There is a very good chance that in the next few decades we will no longer have the option of treating our manures as waste. The project of readapting our infrastructure to use them should be a priority, because of the terrible consequences of not carefully handling human outputs.
