The food system – May 15
New Yorker: Is the world’s food system collapsing?
In search of a better revolution (than the Green Revolution)
Raj Patel’s Starved
Fewer poor people, more volatility in food prices?
Food & Water
Food & agriculture – May 14
Ways of ancient Mexico reviving barren lands
Afghans swap poppies for wheat as prices soar
Farmers can’t cash in on soaring food prices
Patents on ‘climate ready’ altered crops
UK complaint:
Foreigners will no longer pick our fruit and veg
Renewables – May 14
Myanmar biofuel drive deepens food shortage
Boone Pickens ready to bet on wind power
Oregon Inst of Tech to be 100% geothermal
DOE’s John Mizroch – Renewable gigawatts
Food & agriculture – May 13
Chef in NYT: Change we can stomach
Super Spuds roundup
Low cost labor and untaxed fuel cause migrations of frozen fish
Protecting farmland in Montana
Phosphate latest craze for investors
Canada’s role in food supply crisis
Food crisis symptom of dubious liberalisation
Renewables – May 13
Sleeping giant Brazil awakes (biofuels)
UK palm oil consumption fuels Colombia violence
Report says wind can produce a fifth of US electricity needs by 2030
Fertilizers – May 12
Nitrogen fix – nature’s way to make fertilizer
Australian Compost Week (half a billion dollars of compost)
No relief in sight for high fertilizer prices
PotashCorp quotes Borlaug: ‘without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.’
Food & agriculture – May 12
India’s Green Revolutionary Swaminathan favors conservation farming and green technology
Britain’s food crisis
China and India alter food equation
World’s oceans running out of fish
Renewables – May 12
Scientist Ramanathan: Solar-cookers could cut pollution
Rockefellers get more muscle in fight to make Exxon focus on renewables
Vinod Khosla (biofuels interview)
What organic homesteading is all about
The beauty of the organic homestead is that “work” is self-willed, not commanded from on high or dictated by economic necessity. “Work” becomes creative, individualistic, done out of love, not someone else’s sense of duty.
Futures – May 11
A green industrial revolution?
Videos: Cuba’s green revolution
Biofuels and the rise of nationalistic environmentalism
ODAC Newsletter
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Biofuels – May 10
Bio-debatable: Food vs. fuel (good graphic)
Go easy on biofuels until more clarity – World Bank
Ralph Nader: Fueling food shortages
