Thanksgiving 2008 – Food Pantry Nation
Americans’ food stamp use nears all-time high
Food pantry woes
Food banks can’t meet growing demand
Food & Water
A resilient suburbia? Weighing the potential for self-sufficiency
Suburbia has a significant potential to provide its own food, water, and energy. It won’t be as simple as snapping our fingers. And it likely won’t be possible for suburbia to consistently produce 100% of its needs. But I think one thing is quite clear: the potential increase in suburbia’s self-sufficiency is significantly greater than the potential for urban areas.
Food & agriculture – Nov 25
Peak phosphorous
Thousands pick up free vegetables on Colo. farm
Radical producers go free-range on farm policy (Joel Salatin)
New geopolitics of world agriculture
Russia Today: Earth faces starvation
The garden farm guide to beekeeping
I hesitate to describe the way I produce the 8 to 10 quarts of honey we eat every year. I ignore almost all the rules in bee books about producing honey, and I have done so for eight years without any ill effects at all. Commercial beekeepers will say I’ve just been lucky, and I suppose to some small degree that’s true. But you, too, can easily be that lucky while reducing the complications of beekeeping to a very simple, low-cost, and low-labor activity.
Deep thought – Nov 24
The science of the future of war
Vandana Shiva: Food, finance & climate
The ant and the cricket
Food & agriculture – Nov 23
Food crisis leading to an unsustainable land grab
Soil erosion threatens land of 100m Chinese
Fields of grain and losses
We’re all farmers now
Finding a solution to soil’s carbon problem
Geopolitics – Nov 21
U.S. intel office adds warming to warnings
Director of National Intelligence: Conflicts over resources (PDF)
Germany’s Courting of Oil-Rich Turkmenistan Prompts Criticism
Europe joins international contest for Arctic’s resources
Biofuels – Nov 21
Right to eat comes before fuel, Swiss minister says
South Korean company takes over part of Madagascar to grow biofuels
Cutting Emissions in Rural China
Food & agriculture – Nov 20
Silkworms: an environmentally friendly delicacy?
Game beware: it’s the return of the poacher
Portland’s low-income neighborhoods are city’s ‘food deserts’
Premature triumphalism
The Transition Town movement has attracted a great deal of attention from within the Peak Oil community. Is it the wave of the sustainable future, or an experiment still waiting for results to come in?
United States – Nov 19
Michael Pollan for Secretary of Agriculture (Wendell Berry Senior Adviser)
In the Reality Lounge
Opportunities for clean energy in stimulus (video and transcript)
Stoking up the woodstove: winter’s first ritual
Heating effectively with wood requires that one become what I call a woodburning gourmet. To make a really good fire, the wood should be cut and split and allowed to dry for two years in the rick. Dry wood throws at least a third more heat than green wood, and if it burns with a good draft, it does not violate pollution codes and does not block the chimney with creosote.
