Food & agriculture – Feb 2
‘Honey, they shrunk the groceries’; Prices go up, sizes go down
Amazon rainforest razed so cattle can graze
Landless Worker’s Movement (MST) turns 25
Wealthy countries gaze hungrily at Canada’s prairies
Food & Water
Protest – Feb 2
Riot? If I were 20 years younger I would take to the streets
Thousands protest across Russia
Greek Farmers Clash With Riot Police
Food & agriculture – Jan 31
Astyk: Food security as a cottage industry
Industrially grown produce shows long-term nutritional decline
Zimbabwe’s starving millions face halving of rations as UN cash dries up
Scenario 2020: The Future of Food in Mendocino County
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 126: A School Garden Brings Learning to Life
Come along on a tour with team-teachers Glenda Berliner and Jeralyn Wilson, as they show us their elementary school garden bearing many fruits. It’s an important part of the curriculum: children make mason bee boxes, grow colonial medicinal plants, learn of other cultures, and put science to work.
Reality Report: David Holmgren and FutureScenarios.org (Part 2)
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
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.
Peak Moment 123: Cultivating a Suburban Foodshed
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.
Peak Moment 121: Helping Local Food Businesses Thrive
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.
Biofuels – Jan 27
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
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
Gene Logsdon: Andrew Wyeth and the Percheron on the world’s most famous farm
Grow your own: The seeds of change
Foodie Food Storage
