Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Wendy Siporen coordinates The Rogue Initiative for a Vital Economy (THRIVE), which helps small locally-owned businesses not just to thrive, but be more sustainable as well. A “Food Connection” directory enables local businesses to buy from one another.
Sainsbury’s to send unsold food to UK biomass plant
The High Price of Clean, Cheap Ethanol
Trees, Grass May Produce Ethanol Without Poisoning Gulf
World warned of ‘food crunch’ threat
Over 25 millions Kenyans face starvation
World Must Double Food Production by 2050: FAO Chief
Hospitals will take meat off menus in bid to cut carbon
Gene Logsdon: Andrew Wyeth and the Percheron on the world’s most famous farm
Grow your own: The seeds of change
Foodie Food Storage
Obama Starts ‘Remaking America” By Tackling Banks, Afghanistan
Pile up! KU report makes commute even more depressing
Crop to Cuisine: The Politics of Food
Why Bananas are a Parable For Our Times
‘Peak wood’ gives a history lesson in Abu Dhabi
Peak Web?
MR: The Urban Agriculture of Havana
Ben Gisin of Touch the Soil magazine
An Interview with Albert Bates
Smithsonian: Dig it! The secrets of soil
New book: “Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity”
Madagascar: Land rental deal collapses after backlash against ‘colonialism’
The freedom garden (new movement and online community)
Iceland: “It will fix itself”
‘Food Security’ in Boise
Top 7 alternative energies listed
Self-help journalism among farmers
Towards more fruitful agricultural experimentation
How to carry out an agricultural experiment
A new kind of big science
Farmer experimenters: self-developed technology
Transition Town networking site for the U.S. – beginning of a movement?
Post Carbon Institute launches partnership with Transition United States
Transition Town movement gains traction in New Zealand
Strategies for Community Food Security: The Local Foods Coop
Hope and the new USDA chief
Sustainable Table suggests sustainable food for thought
