Solutions & sustainability – Feb 16
‘Eat The Suburbs’: a great short film on permablitzing
Film Review: “Establishing a Food Forest”
The challenges of being a Jewish farmer
Agriburbia idea grows in residential subdivisions
Prepare for the Best
Food & Water
Food & agriculture – Feb 13
Our culture of wasting food will one day leave us hungry
Catastrophic Fall in 2009 Global Food Production
The Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
Reality Report: David Holmgren and FutureScenarios.org (Part 1)
The Reality Report interviews David Holmgren. David co-invented permaculture over 30 years ago and has been a practitioner and teacher ever since, both at his home in Australia and as a consultant around world. In 2002 he published the book Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability that reviewed permaculture in the context of peak energy. More recently, David created a web site called Future Scenarios, see www.futurescenarios.org. This interview is based on that web site and was recorded on July 14, 2008.
Agency and community resilience
For a community to thrive in a complex environment, it must strike a delicate balance between planning proactively and remaining alert to emergent, unexpected changes.
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 10
The 100-mile diet
It’s Just Garbage
Tour that rocked the renewable energy world in Florida
An Ecologically Sane Farm
The chief “product” of his business is mammoth jacks, but they are not the only animals he raises and sells. As we walk over the 180 acres, my astonishment grows. I have been on thousands of farms from the East Coast to the West, and never before have I seen such a variety or number of animals grazing per acre…Jack Siemon’s farm is a celebration of the earth’s vital forces.
Food & agriculture – Feb 11
Is America on the Brink of a Food Crisis?
Britain ‘must revive farms’ to avoid grave food crisis
Food security and global warming: Monsanto versus organic
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 9
Transition Network’s ‘Who We Are and What We Do’ Document Available
Adapting In Place: Whether, Why and Wherefore Ought Thou
Buried treasure: Vermonters rediscover root cellars
Biofuels – Feb 8
Could biodiesel power future rockets?
Industry worries as California takes lead in setting bio-fuel rules
Biofuels more harmful to humans than petrol and diesel, warn scientists
New biomass charcoal heater: A ‘new era’ of efficiency and sustainability
EntropyPawsed: Heating With Wood
ODAC Newsletter – Feb 6
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
China – Feb 6
Drought threatens Chinese wheat crop
Darley: China Enters A New And ‘Interesting’ Phase
China to Construct 8 Strategic Oil Reserve Bases
Opportunity knocks when it comes to a local food economy
Community-based agriculture has the potential for creating jobs, developing small business entrepreneurship and keeping precious dollars in the community.
