Food & agriculture – Apr 29
Ban Ki-Moon to chair UN task force on food crisis – hunger threatens ‘more than 100 million’
Recession Diet just one way to tighten belt
The future of dirt
Food & Water
Food crisis – Apr 27
The troubles with food (food security vs food sovereignty)
Anti-hunger protests in Haiti
Avoidable hunger (subsidies)
Afghanistan food riots
Food & agriculture – Apr 27
WSJ: Load up the pantry
How much your groceries will cost in 10 years
Food miles and social dilemmas of imported foods
Sachs: How to end the global food shortage
Food & microorganisms – Apr 27
The real dirt on dirt
Post Harvest Technology (food preservation post peak)
Global hops shortage
Biodynamics and microorganisms
Clothing – Apr 27
Clothing stores feel sharp economic pinch
The end of cheap clothes is near
Thrift shops – a wardrobe essential
Gardening in the nude (or new use for rhubarb)
Garden – Apr 25
Stand by your beds – guerrilla gardening
Warming shifts gardeners’ maps
Pasadena family finds change can start in your own backyard
Peak clothing – Apr 24
BBC: The end of cheap clothes is near
The Joy of Socks
Food & flowerpots – Apr 24
Shops ration sales of rice as US buyers panic
Plastic garden pots trashing the planet?
Biofuels – Apr 24
Brown sounds retreat on biofuels
How biofuels could starve the poor
Why more food is not the answer
The world wants more food – a lot more food – but the planet will not be able to provide it. A groundbreaking United Nations report was released last week that presents an alternative paradigm for agriculture – at a very timely moment.
Food & agriculture – Apr 23
Biofuels starving our people – South American leaders
WSJ: When neighbors become farmers
Many Wisconsin dairy farmers switch to grazing
We regret to inform you…
When climate change and peak oil thinkers run out of other things to worry about, there’s always the endless, inevitable debates about whether we are facing a “fast crash” or a “slow grind.” When no one was looking, we got an answer. Fast crash wins. And we’re in it now.
