Food & agriculture – Apr 3
Dead zone plan adrift (9 states cause 75% of N & P pollution in Gulf of Mexico)
Land once preserved now being farmed
Rice jumps to record, corn near high
Why localism matters
Food & Water
Biofuels and climate – Apr 2
Guardian: An unsustainable scam
Norway forests to double bioenergy output
Specially-designed soils could help combat climate change
World Bank climate profiteering
Food & agriculture – Apr 2
A ‘perfect storm’ of hunger
Food price hikes changing U.S. eating habits
Urban backyard chickens
Square trees grow in New Hampshire
Activism – Apr 2
Zero in locally to create a sustainable world
A citizen’s guide to Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs)
Organizing without organizations – social tools
Health & sustainability conference (climate/PO)
Food & agriculture – Apr 1
Farmers fall prey to rice rustlers as price of staple crop rockets
Hungry crowds spell trouble for world leaders
Tensions rise as world faces short rations
Could high grain prices devastate prairie?
Phosphorus – Apr 1
World’s phosphorus situation scares some scientists
Aldous Huxley on phosphorus depletion and endless growth (1928)
Phosphorus in “Brave New World”
ODAC Newsletter – Mar 28
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Righteous protests or religious fanatics?
Everywhere in the world, grassroots movements are solidifying a response to the impact of globalization, but this trend is going unreported or misinterpreted. The Santi Asoke Buddhist group, a network of eco-villages in Thailand, is misunderstood by the media and even by many Thais themselves.
Reality Report: Low-Energy Food Storage with Sharon Astyk
The Reality Report interviews Sharon Astyk — writer, teacher andsubsistence farmer — about low energy methods for home food preservation and storage. Sharon is author of two books on Peak Oil and Climate Change. Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front is now available, and A Nation of Farmers (And Cooks), co-authored with Aaron Newton, will be available in Spring ’09. (An improved rebroadcast.)
Deep thought – Mar 31
Asking a judge to save the world from black holes and ‘strangelets’
An act of “biopiracy” 130 years ago enriched England and devastated Brazil
The Pentagon’s cyborg insects
Peak Oil Review — March 31st, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Basra
– China
– Food Shortages
– Energy Briefs
Time to start growing your own bread
It is gratifying to know there are still Americans who, instead of wringing their hands at a possible problem headed their way, start figuring what to do about it.
