Solutions & sustainability – Feb 20
UVic bans plastic utensils, uses bamboo instead
How to Start a Farm with No Land and Little Money
Bantry CSA – the Community Solution to Getting Your Oats?
It Starts at Home
Food & Water
China – Feb 19
China’s growing appetite for U.S.-style meat production
Less is more approach to fertiliser could boost farmers
Parched China to slash water consumption by 60%
Biofuels & biochar – Feb 19
The ‘holy grail’ of biofuels now in sight
Ethanol plants no panacea for local economies, study finds
Biochar for Climate Change Mitigation: Fact or Fiction?
Food & agriculture – Feb 19
Peak oil and food security talk by Patrick Holden of UK Soil Assn
Hamburgers are the Hummers of food in global warming: scientists
How African Farmers are Dealing with Climate Change
U.N. says food production may fall 25 percent by 2050
Massive effort underway to save endangered seeds
Fresh ideas for waste food
“Grazing” the trees on your garden farm
To reach its full potential, a garden farm should embrace four areas: garden, pasture, tree grove, and the watery domain of pool, pond or creek… Of the four parts, the tree grove usually receives the least attention from garden farmers, which is why I have been writing about it so much…
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 18
An Update from Transition around the world
Powerdown Toolkit #3: It’s All Connected
New HopeDance
Green burials
Entropypawsed Chickens
Food & agriculture – Feb 16
A farm to teach the world to live without oil
Peak farm equipment?
New frontier in Colorado agriculture, HOPS
Little livestock – Feb 16
Chickens beat dogs in sustainability
Little Livestock for Urban and Suburban Gardens
Most environmentally friendly form of animal protein?
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 & 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.
