Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before.
Sulfuric acid prices explode (due to biofuels, fertilizer demand)
Pig slurry solution to high fertilizer prices
UK fishing industry turning green
Transition Towns movement hits “The Archers”, UK cultural intitution
Urban jungle: growing fruit and vegetables in UK town-centres
China’s green building movement
Kunstler on zoning and “starchitects”
Local food advocates seem to have put a good dose of local farm dust up the nostrils of Australian Agriculture Minister, Tony Burke. The issues of local food and food importation are complex and deserve a more mature and sophisticated approach than that offered by the minister.
NY Times hails the era of the hipster farmer
Opportunity knocks in fertiliser boom
Water, the blood of the earth
Monsanto pays Percy Schmeiser
Top scientists warn against rush to biofuel
The folly of turning water into fuel
UK gardeners turn to vegetables
Self-sufficient living in East Anglia: hard work and red tape
India’s debt-ridden farmers committing suicide
Synthetic life for creating fuel from CO2 feedstock
Poppy power – biodiesel not opium
Bacteria produces oil – side effects?
Biofuel boom threatens food supplies: Nestle
There is a severe disconnect between our society today and the realities of the food chain. Many people no longer understand that nature is a magnificent banquet table around which sit all forms of life killing and eating each other.
Investors warm to water as shortages mount
A thirsty planet looks for solutions
On World Water Day, a mighty global thirst
Climate change deepens world water crisis
They paved paradise and put up … a power source
Banana methane powered cars, pig poo power
Salt could shake up world energy supply
Holmgren and permaculture: Backyard answer to energy crisis
Rosemary’s gardens: permaculture and nutritional gardens in Cambodia
Hope dances eternal for media maven
