Solutions & sustainability – Feb 10
The 100-mile diet
It’s Just Garbage
Tour that rocked the renewable energy world in Florida
Food & Water
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
Food & agriculture – Feb 5
Slow food: Have we lost our appetite?
Our love-hate relationship with the Red Cedar tree
Program helps future farmers find land
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.
Climate & environment – Feb 5
California farms, vineyards in peril from warming, U.S. energy secretary warns
Forecast: doomed! Stephan Faris’s book is a grim reality check
It’s Getting Wicked
Food, Finance and Democracy in Crisis
The 2009 29th annual Ecological Farming Conference kicked off on January 21 in beautiful, rainy Pacific Grove, CA with a provocative, pointed, timely, and at-times hilarious keynote address on "Food, Financial Stability and Democracy in Crisis" by Raj Patel, the author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, a new critically acclaimed book about the causes and consequences of global food inequity.
Farms heal – agrotherapy
After farming for most of the last sixteen years in semi-rural Sonoma County, Northern California, and being raised partly on our family farm in Iowa, I have come to understand that agriculture can serve many functions, in addition to producing food, fibers, and beverages. Some farms–especially non-industrial small family farms–are places where working the Earth can be good for body, mind and soul.
