Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
A hypothesis is presented whereby phosphorus is considered in two broad forms: “easy” which is able to be mined quickly, but already peaked in 1990, and “hard” which has large remaining reserves and is yet to peak, but cannot be mined as quickly. … Ultimately we must develop a recyclable phosphorus supply if humans are to continue living on this planet.
Walkable Seattle
NYC’s Summer Streets a success!
Tyranny of distance fuels rising grocery prices in Australia
Choking suburbs to stop global warming
Rosie Boycott: People are recognising that food is the great binder
Growing green in Detroit
Ten steps for individuals from Post Carbon
An inside look at an emergency survival kit
Maasai ‘can fight climate change’
Extreme carbon negativity: 280 ppm by 2050
A modest proposal for sustainable eating (Slow Food)
Saudi Arabia: Feeding its own people more cheaply
Food price rises push 14m to the brink of starvation
Charles’s fantasy farming won’t feed Africa’s poor
6 ways mushrooms can save the world
Costs spiral for cigar-leaf farms
Importing food means exporting drought
Sanitation: Creating a stink about the world’s wastewater
The Guardian special on water
Leading Wall Street water analyst Neil Berlant: Price of water in US to rise up to 300% in next 2-3 years
Millions eating food grown with polluted water, says UN report
Water everywhere, and not a drop to grow
West Bank struggles for water
Can the Dead Sea be brought to life?
We read in the Bible of war-horses; of horses drawing chariots. But we never find an allusion to horses employed in the tillage of the land; for which by their gentleness, by the nature of the food which they require, by their great docility, oxen seem to have been formed by nature.
Stark warning on Britain’s shrinking coast
Town that gave itself a licence to print money
Locals barter for beer with food
Buying into ‘organic,’ ‘natural,’ ‘local’
Slow Food Nation celebrates the good, clean and fair
Homer-Dixon: Everything is not peachy (food self-sufficiency)
What if we all got money-smart?
Ex-pat Steve holidays in England, only to find signs of the effects of peak oil everywhere. Over the period of two weeks a number of newspaper articles confirm that the perfect post-peak storm is brewing in this land, once a proud net exporter of oil.
Mexico sugar output may fall 3.1% on fertilizer prices
Honeybee deaths reaching crisis point
Fuel costs are eating farmers’ profits
Corn bonanza won’t cut food prices
Fertilizer, feed costs pinch dairies
Wheat residue too valuable for fuel, scientist says
How serious is the problem of annual vegetable variety erosion? Very! Thousands of varieties have already been lost. Kent Whealy, founder of Seed Savers Exchange, figures that only 20 percent of the pea varieties once in cultivation are still available…Home gardeners have benefited from hybrids that are more disease resistant, more vigorous and higher yielding, but the cost has been high. Not collecting seeds means buying seeds and being dependent on seed companies, which means fewer options for home growing.
