The just-in-time economy crumbles
The realization that just-in-time methods have ceased to serve us well comes at a time when it is exceedingly difficult and expensive to build a stockpile of anything.
Food & Water
Climate – May 4
Oxygen-poor ocean zones are growing
Nature article on ‘cooling’ confuses media, deniers
Farmers face climate challenge in quest for more food
Review of Kunstler’s post-peak novel by a woman who has lived the life
One thing about survivalism: it isn’t pretty but it can be fun if approached in the right frame of mind. Many people fear the possibility of survival in difficulties like we had. Yet they were not all that great a challenge if one felt strong of mind and body. I got up at 5 am to start the fires, bake the bread and feed the livestock before sending the boy and the husband out the door.
Peach trees light up the old hen house – and vice versa
My favorite advice to homesteaders has always been not to do anything that can be put off until tomorrow because tomorrow you might not have to do it at all. Add to that the following: Don’t do anything that you can get nature to do for you.
Fertilizers – May 2
NY Times: Shortages threaten farmers’ key tool: fertilizer
Vietnam’s farmers face paradox of the paddy
Scotsman: Global fertiliser shortage looming
Relocalization – May 2
Rethinking our food and fuel systems
Rob Hopkins: eco worrier
Totnes – their own currency
McKibben assesses environmentalism
Natural born survivors
Heinberg on resilient communities
Biofuels – May 2
U.S. eyes shift away from corn ethanol
Scientists advise halt to biofuels
Women farmers threatened by biofuels
Wheat, corn and ethanol fight for acres
Food – May 2
An unlikely way to save a species: serve it for dinner
No easy access to fresh groceries in many parts of Seattle
Food crisis – May 2
Bush seeks $770 million more in world food aid
Israel and PO: Food troubles are here to stay
China: Dealing with a rice crisis
Sharon Astyk: Why food is complicated
Biofuels – Apr 30
Biotech bets on agrofuels
Colbert on ethanol and the energy war
Reuters: Cuba’s Fidel Castro warned of food crisis a year ago
Fertilizers: prices high and rising – Apr 30
Last big push for phosphate mining in Florida
More volatility in heated fertiliser market
Help phosphate-producing Western Sahara gain independence
Vietnamese fertiliser prices to rise this week
Food & agriculture – Apr 30
UN chief warns of civil unrest amid world food shortage
Scientist: we need a new agricultural revolution
Suburbanites turn yards into cash with minifarms
Sharon Astyk’s food independence challenge
Afghan famine
