Solutions – May 29
Monty Don: gardeners of the world must unite
Incentives for farmers to grow organic in Australia
Advice to teens and parents about peak oil
Sustainable Bellingham – grassroots organizing is key
Food & Water
Biofuels – May 28
Brazil: Ethanol vs biodiversity
Despite doubts, Brazil pins hopes on sustainable sugarcane ethanol
Report: Effects of ethanol on Texas food and feed
Peak food and peak water
The pace quickens. The signs are more numerous. We need even more than food security; we need food sovereignty. Who controls your food? Growing at least part of one’s own food–and having something to trade–will be essential to survival.
Climate and food – May 27
U.S. studies: Energy firms routinely abusing carbon offset fund
Crisis talks on global food prices
Food & agriculture – May 27
For Texas farmers, production costs are spiraling along with crop prices
Lofty prices for fertilizer put farmers in a squeeze
Energy giants smell windfall from sulphur
Solutions – May 27
It’s the meat-eating, stupid
Sowing the seeds of a global revolution (guerilla gardenering)
Sustainable communities (otherwise – “dead doors that lead to nowhere”)
Transition Town sprouts in Peterborough, Ontario
Getting the corn planted this year
With corn prices triple the historical levels, growing corn for your own table use looks more sensible than ever, especially when it is not easy to find organic corn to buy.
A trip to the garden centre – Abandon all hope, ye who enter here
Garden centres are crammed with the most pointless unnecessary clutter, very little of it of any use to anyone who actually wants to garden, to grow anything useful. They are temples to a lost generation so removed from the land and from seeing gardens as something essential and as something productive that it beggars belief.
Food & agriculture – May 25
Now we face the £6 fish supper
Is fertilizer the ‘most important business on Earth?’
Food security requires new approach to water
Speculation – May 25
Gambling with the futures (primer)
James D. Hamilton on oil speculation
Ban on futures trading: Anti-farmer, not anti-inflation
Deep thought – May 24
Reinventing Collapse by Dmitry Orlov released
Panel Discussion: James Howard Kunstler and Nikos Salingaros
How the government could pay us to stay home and garden
Carolyn Baker: Rapid unraveling and the decline of adolescent America
Food & agriculture – May 23
Insects (the original white meat)
Fertilizer and the looming global food crisis
Canadian fertilizer sellers appeal for government help in ensuring security
Heritage foods: preserving diversity II
