Fertilizers and glyphosate – Apr 11
Peak weed-killer?
Jeypore: Shortage of fertiliser hits farmers
Australian farmers attack fertiliser pricing
Food & Water
Food & agriculture – Apr 11
NYT editorial: The world food crisis
Starving Haitians riot as food prices soar
We’ll reap what we sow (US farm bill)
As prices rise, farmers spurn conservation program
Plastics and rubber – Apr 11
First town in Europe to ban plastic bags
Schools offered uniforms made from old bottles
Harnessing biology, and avoiding oil, for chemical goods
Setting sail for Garbage Island (floating plastics)
Brazil builds £10m condom factory to help save rainforest
Food & agriculture – Apr 9
Astyk interview: Low energy methods for home food preservation and storage
Gene Logsdon: First spring things
Hopeless gardeners – begin on the balcony
Food crisis – Apr 9
Food price rises threaten global security – UN
Paul Krugman: Grains gone wild
Riots in Haiti and Africa as food prices skyrocket
Fear of rice riots in Far East
Food prices rise beyond means of poorest in Africa
Transport – Apr 8
Ten reasons why NYC’s congestion pricing plan went belly up
Truckers hit the brakes over high price of diesel
Railroads expanding at a record clip
More trains for Grand Central Station
Peak Oil Review — April 7th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Prices, Production and Exports
– Electricity Shortages and Diesel
– Rice, Inflation and Oil
– Massachusetts Hosts a Meeting
– Energy Briefs
Resilient communities: A guide to disaster management
There are plenty of marginalized “alternatives” advocates who for decades have been researching and promoting low-energy ways of doing things that will make perfect sense in a post-petroleum environment. What if these folks could be mobilized and coordinated, their knowledge made readily available to local officials and the public at large, in preparation for the imminent period when existing systems start to fail in ever more obvious ways?
Food & agriculture – Apr 6
Food riots fear after rice price hits a high
Dallas News: The up side of high food prices
How much food can I grow around my house?
Backyard beekeeping
Food forest in Australia
One of the more interesting developments in Australian agriculture over the past decade has been the growing influence of the permaculture movement. Whether you’re talking sustainable water and land management, integrated pest control or organic fertiliser, the holistic approach of permaculture is gradually moving into mainstream farming. (Video of “best permaculture demonstration site in Australia”: Brookman Food Forest)
Seven fat cows, seven thin cows: hoarding and storing the seeds of deliverance
Whatever anyone can say about Pharoahs, the one in the Bible story of Joseph seems to have a laudable sense of obligation to his own populace – a sense of obligation that wildly exceeds the leaders of many nations, who have allowed grain stockpiles to collapse in times of comparative prosperity.
Perils of the green life – Apr 6
Recyclers suffer from clutter
Are you a cloth bag snob?
Living off the fat of the land: grease theft
Cheap solar panels and dodgy installations
