Climate – July 16
True to form, Bush administration still refuses to regulate greenhouse gases
White House buries climate change deaths report
Diary: Colorado River drought
Food & Water
Solutions & Sustainability – July 14
The bicycling horticulturalist
Gardens Save the Day in ‘WALL-E’ and America’s Cities
The happy minimalist
Alex Steffen: The outquisition
Wendell Berry: Digging In
Wendell Berry on Small Farms, Local Wisdom and the Folly of Greed Digging In (excerpts)
Solutions & sustainability – July 13
The bicycling horticulturalist
Gardens save the day in ‘WALL-E’ and America’s cities
Financial independence with The Happy Minimalist
The Outquisition
UC advisor encourages Californians to plant Victory Gardens
The last great push for Victory Gardens came from the federal government during World War II. Today, Hayden-Smith said, there isn’t as strong a connection between American military involvement and the home front, but the American way of life is imperiled by more than foreign wars. The country is facing ever rising fuel and food prices, the threat of global warming, and a high rate of obesity.
Food crisis – July 13
Hunger brings anguish for millions of Pakistanis
Catastrophe looms in Zimbabwe
Food shortages grow in rural Nepal
Food & agriculture – July 13
Community gardens: growing food brings people together
The only diet for a peacemaker is a vegetarian diet
Good crop, bad crop (biofuels)
Waste – July 13
A truly cool city would feature a short stroll to the local worm bin
How to curb food waste
Trash collectors (students in poor barrios find their own solution)
Food & agriculture – July 12
UK food report goes to the heart of the flaws in the production model
USDA rule change may lead to crops on conserved land
Gardening has the power to transform lives and landscapes
Biofuels – July 11
Guardian ‘publishes the biofuels report they didn’t want you to read’
Donald Mitchell, World Bank
Bad juice II: biofuels maybe not quite so bad, World Bank says
Rising food prices: policy options and World Bank response
ODAC Newsletter – July 11
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Food & agriculture – July 10
Michael Pollan on what’s wrong with environmentalism
Can bovine burp research slow global warming?
Global fertilizer demand may rise 14% on higher food demand
