Food & Water Archives

Reality Report: David Holmgren and FutureScenarios.org (Part 2)

December 15, 2020January 30, 2009 by Jason Bradford

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. This second installment covers four “energy descent” scenario groups that correspond to potential variation in the severity of both peak oil and climate change. Scenarios are also viewed as choices, with certain factors, such as social scale and resource availability, influencing the descent path.

Reality Report: Ben Gisin of Touch the Soil magazine

December 15, 2020January 30, 2009 by Jason Bradford

Ben Gisin is co-founder and publisher of Touch the Soil magazine, an agricultural magazine promoting resilient agricultural practices. He speaks with Jason Bradford about the crumbling industrial agricultural system and its close relationship with the global economy.

Scenario 2020: The Future of Food in Mendocino County

December 15, 2020January 30, 2009 by Jason Bradford

A presentation by Jason Bradford originally given to Leadership Mendocino, Nov. 14, 2008. Dr. Bradford presents as if from the year 2020 on the history of Mendocino county after an energy crisis, describing the rapid changes that followed.

Peak Moment 121: Helping Local Food Businesses Thrive

December 15, 2020January 29, 2009 by Janaia Donaldson

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.

Peak Moment 123: Cultivating a Suburban Foodshed

December 15, 2020January 29, 2009 by Janaia Donaldson

Landscape architect Owen Dell has a vision: transforming suburban neighborhoods into shared “foodsheds” with food-bearing and native plants, and even chickens. Neighbors can start by finding edible plants already growing in their yards, maybe remove fences, plant what works best in each location.

Biofuels – Jan 27

December 15, 2020January 27, 2009 by Staff

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

Food & agriculture – Jan 27

December 15, 2020January 27, 2009 by Staff

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

Food & agriculture – Jan 23

December 15, 2020January 23, 2009 by Staff

Gene Logsdon: Andrew Wyeth and the Percheron on the world’s most famous farm
Grow your own: The seeds of change
Foodie Food Storage

United States – Jan 21

December 15, 2020January 21, 2009 by Staff

Obama Starts ‘Remaking America” By Tackling Banks, Afghanistan
Pile up! KU report makes commute even more depressing
Crop to Cuisine: The Politics of Food

Deep thought – Jan 20

December 15, 2020January 20, 2009 by Staff

Why Bananas are a Parable For Our Times
‘Peak wood’ gives a history lesson in Abu Dhabi
Peak Web?

Food & agriculture – Jan 20

December 15, 2020January 20, 2009 by Staff

MR: The Urban Agriculture of Havana
Ben Gisin of Touch the Soil magazine
An Interview with Albert Bates

Food & agriculture – Jan 19

December 15, 2020January 19, 2009 by Staff

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)