Solutions & sustainability – March 10
Creating a Home Graywater System
Community as Technology
Foodzoning the Foodshed
Food & Water
The aim is joy
I’ve taken lovely vacations over the years, but the latest one, at an exclusive hideaway we were lucky enough to know about, had to be the best ever. … We could not have enjoyed the weekend just described without a very intimate knowledge of our surroundings.
Food & agriculture – March 10
Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner (Extended Interview)
Vancouver latest municipality to allow urban chickens
Where there’s Muck… the joy of a well aged compost
Nine meals from anarchy?
Biofuels & biochar – March 9
US ethanol producers urge Obama to up ethanol content of motor fuels
Monbiot: Biofuels do far more harm than good
International Biochar Initiative online
100 million new farmers? North Carolina writer calls for agricultural revolution
Peak oil and climate change writers Aaron Newton and Sharon Astyk have written a book called “A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil,” which is nothing short of a call to arms for local food proponents.
Visions of change – March 6
Rees’s Thesis
Reimagining Socialism
Together, We Save the Planet
The Revolution Has Already Occurred
Follow Brazil’s Example
Transition towns
Lost Generation
Food & agriculture – March 6
China to plough extra 20% into agricultural production amid fears that climate change will spark food crisis
Should hunters switch to ‘green’ bullets?
Spoiled: Organic and Local Is So 2008
Solutions & sustainability – March 6
Learning Gardening and Energy Saving, Through Coaching and Competition
Mike Antheil at FARE updates the Florida Renewable Energy Dividend (RED) story
Food Deserts and Delivery: Discussions from the Pacific Northwest
Economics – March 5
Job Losses Show Breadth of Recession
A Depression doesn’t have to be Great
Food-backed Local Money
Archdruid Report: The End of Retirement
Food & agriculture – March 4
Who needs a garden?
California: A tiny town in the Central Valley prepares for ‘Armageddon’
Kitchen Gardener International
Pole Beans Need Better Public Relations
I suppose it’s because pole beans require some kind of scaffolding to climb on that they aren’t as popular as bush beans…But if you have tasted Kentucky Wonder pole beans cooked with bacon grease or a slab of real country-cured ham fat nestled among them, you know that they are so much more delectable than any bush bean that the extra work is worth it.
Biochar & biofuels – March 1
Black is the new green (Financial Times on biochar)
Australian opposition embraces biochar
Sierra Club & Worldwatch: Time to Get “Smart” on Biofuels
Review of “Fuel”
