United States – Jan 21
Obama Starts ‘Remaking America” By Tackling Banks, Afghanistan
Pile up! KU report makes commute even more depressing
Crop to Cuisine: The Politics of Food
Food & Water
Deep thought – Jan 20
Why Bananas are a Parable For Our Times
‘Peak wood’ gives a history lesson in Abu Dhabi
Peak Web?
Food & agriculture – Jan 20
MR: The Urban Agriculture of Havana
Ben Gisin of Touch the Soil magazine
An Interview with Albert Bates
Food & agriculture – Jan 19
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)
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 19
Iceland: “It will fix itself”
‘Food Security’ in Boise
Top 7 alternative energies listed
Do-it-yourself science
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 Towns on the move
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
Food & agriculture – Jan 16
Strategies for Community Food Security: The Local Foods Coop
Hope and the new USDA chief
Sustainable Table suggests sustainable food for thought
Food & agriculture – Jan 15
Peak Phosphorus – Commence Urine Recyling on Space Station Earth
Enjoy low food prices, they are not here to stay
Women bear brunt of drought
Gardening in January
Phosphorus matters: soil erosion & contamination
…the world reserves of phosphate rocks, which are used for the production of phosphate fertilizers, are declining. They can be depleted even this century. The problem with the lack of phosphate fertilizers does not start, however, when all phosphate rock reserves are gone. It starts as soon as the demand for phosphate fertilizers exceeds the supply of phosphate rocks available for export… And this situation may appear within the next 10-20 years.
…So, what can we do?
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 14
Produce will sail into Ballard
Book Review: Permaculture, a beginner’s guide
Going Amish: The Decision
Soylent black
There is considerable debate within the biochar community over the origins of the mysterious dark earths of the Amazon. How and why were they made?
