Biofuels – May 6
LA Times: Energy economics (of ethanol)
India: Are these kids causing a global food shortage?
Onion cartoon
Food & Water
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
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’
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
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.
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.
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.
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
