Climate and food – May 27
U.S. studies: Energy firms routinely abusing carbon offset fund
Crisis talks on global food prices
Food & Water
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
Biofuels – May 22
James Hamilton: Reconciling estimates: biofuels and food prices
New trend in biofuels has new risks (invasive weeds)
Biowar I: Why Battles over Food and Fuel Lead to World Hunger (book)
Solutions – May 22
The suburb-eating robot
Intent shapes environment, environment shapes life
Pedicabs a hit in Bellingham
Rob Hopkins on permaculture (interview)
Dmitry Orlov details the Collapse Party platform
Blaming speculators – May 21
Are commodity traders bidding up food, fuel prices?
Are pension funds fueling high oil?
Senate takes on oil, food speculators
Gambling with the futures (primer)
