Food & agriculture – May 9
A taste of wines to come with climate change (Chateau China?)
Britons wasting ÂŁ10bn worth of food a year
Oxfam’s Kripke on biofuels, food prices
Food & Water
Food – behind the scenes – May 9
Rob Hopkins: The wonder of the worm
How to make fertilizer out of thin air
Protein possibility for post-peak: the meat beast
Food & agriculture – May 8
Cost of food wreaking havoc on Central America
Burma cyclone fuels rice price increase
Catastrophe may leave Burma unable to feed itself
Romanian farmland prices set to triple
Liberalizing food trade to death
Urban farmers’ crops go from vacant lot to market
Food & agriculture – May 6
‘Zero mile diet’ blooms in BC – gardening boom
City neighborhoods loss of supermarkets
Billions at risk from wheat super-blight
World food crisis: sources and solutions
The world’s food insecurity – echoes of 70s
Biofuels – May 6
LA Times: Energy economics (of ethanol)
India: Are these kids causing a global food shortage?
Onion cartoon
Food & agriculture – May 5
Multinationals make billions out of food crisis
A Full plate today, uncertainty tomorrow
Food impact: meat vs miles
Canada: Are we losing our food sovereignty?
UK solutions & setbacks – May 5
As oil prices soar, getting heat from peat
Boom in green roofs and rainwater harvesting
Switch off your tumble dryer
Londoners ‘grow their own’ YouTube site
Green tax revolt: Britons ‘will not foot bill to save planet’
United States – May 4
McCain clarifies remark about oil, Iraq war
Corn ethanol loses more support
Who benefits most from farm bill
Montana’s luxury community of “conscience”
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.
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.
