Solutions & sustainability – Oct. 30
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
Food & Water
Deep Thought – Oct 29
Time to build a new civilization
The temples of doom
The Most Radical Thing You Can Do
Food & agriculture – Oct 28
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
Our hidden wound
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.
Is Coke better than Pepsi?
Find out by reading Ellis Jones’ The Better World Shopping Guide – 2nd Edition (book review)
Peak textiles – Oct 27
Sustainable wool: Baacodes with a backstory
Bioneers 2008: Reincarnated Clothes Get a Second Chance at Cuteness
‘Good’ and ‘bad’ textiles are challenging to spot
Food & agriculture – Oct 26
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
Food & agriculture – Oct 24
Michael Pollan Interview
The Local Grain Revolution II (audio)
Soil health ‘threatens farming’ (text & audio)
Chinese Farms A Growing Challenge
Environment – Oct 24
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
The hows, wheres, & whys of eating locally
The benefits of eating local, seasonal, organic food; where to find local food sources; and what to do if you don’t have a local food resource in your area.
Food & agriculture – Oct 22
The Garden of Eatin’: A Short History of America’s Garden (YouTube)
Sulfur critical for phosphorus fertilizer
Organic farming ‘could feed Africa’
Deep Thought – Oct 22
Monbiot: We must start thinking in centuries
Crunch may put price tag on environment
Reuters summit-Economic woes may give planet a breather
