Local food: success is 100% possible
Russian household plots produced about 90% of all the potatoes in Russia, 80% of all the vegetables, 50% of the meat and milk, etc.
Food & Water
Food & agriculture – Feb 27
World lags in breeding climate-proof crops: experts
Women lead a farming revolution in Iowa
Honeybees under attack on all fronts
UN and Colorado State to develop land degradation strategy
ODAC Newsletter 27 Feb
Weekly round up from a UK perspective.
Food & agriculture – Feb 26
Astyk: Creating and Sustaining Soil Fertility
Farming policy: an end to French hypocrisy?
Swiss “Victory Gardens” during WW2
UNEP Gives Food for Thought
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 25
After the crash, Iceland’s women lead the rescue
Teaching Cuba’s Energy Revolution
The Answer is in the Trees
Peak oil, coal, supplies – Feb 25
Non OPEC-12 Oil Production Peaked in 2004
“A Farm for the Future”… essential viewing
Sovereign wealth eyes move into commodities, oil
Are Reserves of the Largest US Coal Field Overstated by 50%?
Energy Security First (Canada)
Food & agriculture – Feb 24
Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner
Recession grows interest in seeds, vegetable gardening
Small-Scale Grain Raising
Feds: Less water for California agriculture this year
Fairtrade Week: smallholders farm a route out of poverty
United States – Feb 24
Friedman: Start Up the Risk-Takers
E.P.A. Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide
National Guard goes green to conserve energy, cost
White House Dismisses Mileage-Based Tax
First Lady at Agriculture Department
Coping – Feb 23
When consumers cut back: a lesson from Japan
Say what you will, it’s still about the money
One way to cope? Grow your own
Fix-It Nation: in tough times, tailors and cobblers thrive
Amish home and garden show
Creating a cottage garden
The early Puritans left their mark on us in a number of ways, some of which make life a series of joyless tasks. Sometimes I think their devotees must write garden books. The tone of many of the how-to books reeks of rules, admonitions, and dicta. How about a garden that is programmed to give you joy, to take care of you?
Climate – Feb 21
Scientists map CO2 emissions with Google Earth
Climate change to cause dark night of the shoal (fish to migrate)
What does economic “recovery” mean on an extreme weather planet?
Andean glaciers ‘could disappear’: World Bank
Food & agriculture – Feb 20
UK allotments boom as thousands go to ground in recession
NYT on Urban Composting: A New Can of Worms
Portland, Maine allows backyard chickens
