Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Shall we plan and prepare for the real future: a world without oil and without electric power. Or, shall we continue to avoid reality, dream about what will never happen, and waste time, effort, and capital on illusions?
Food hunters of the urban jungle
Albert Bates: Biochar’s fractal dimension
Forget flowers, say I love you with vegetables
The food crisis and gender
Preparedness, at its root, is more than anything about making sure people get dinner. Yes, we can prepare to fight off zombie attacks, build earth shelters in case we lose ours (although odds are most of us will move in with a friend or relative), learn how to handle background radiation – but the first tier problems most of us face – and the ones most people prepare for first, are the ones we’re familiar with – what will we eat? How will we cook it?
I’ve just come out of the most hopeful and interesting discussions of climate change I’ve ever witnessed. Anchored by Indian food-sovereignty activist Vandana Shiva, the panel discussion at Terra Madre unveiled a new “Manifesto on Climate Change and the Future of Food Security,” drawn up by the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture.
The document under discussion — which can be found here — is brisk, lucid, and to the point.
Staying home as a necessity and a right
Progettazione per zone e settori in ambiente urbano
Creating a Post-Peak Future Worth Living Into
Horticultural Consciousness: Hemenway interview #2
Time to build a new civilization
The temples of doom
The Most Radical Thing You Can Do
Soil research has dried up
Europe’s secret plan to boost GM crop production
Farm-credit squeeze may cut crops, spur food crisis
Is manure more valuable than hogs?
At Asian food market, a sign of lost confidence
Most of us grew up in a society where farmer was often merely a synonym for moron, and I am quite sure that many farmers are still haunted by feelings of inferiority laid on them by this kind of urban and urbane prejudice.
Find out by reading Ellis Jones’ The Better World Shopping Guide – 2nd Edition (book review)
Sustainable wool: Baacodes with a backstory
Bioneers 2008: Reincarnated Clothes Get a Second Chance at Cuteness
‘Good’ and ‘bad’ textiles are challenging to spot
Clinton links food, energy and financial woes
What does oil have to do with the price of bread? A lot
Food for the soul
Mediterranean paradox: poverty creates a healthy and delicious cuisine
UK’s ancient woodland being lost ‘faster than Amazon’
Migrating Alaskan pollock are creating the potential for a new dispute with Russia
Rising water in Florida’s Everglades threatens wildlife
