Biofuels – Mar 1
Biofuels: Driving in the wrong direction?
The ethanol bust
Cuba to produce ethanol without sacrificing food
Food & Water
Eugene, Oregon: Community and personal collapse preparation
A relocalized society and economy is a pragmatic way to prepare for, to survive from, or to rebuild after whatever comes down — to counteract the rising price of energy and to help diminish carbon emissions. (In-depth interview with writer and activist Dan Armstrong, part 2)
Food security: Moving towards the precipice?
“The bottom line is that China and the world are accelerating in the fog toward a precipice.” (Interview of ecologist Paul Ehrlich.)
Food & agriculture – Feb 29
The day China runs dry (Lester Brown interview)
FAO expects global fertilizer supply to outstrip demand
The world’s growing food-price crisis
U.S. energy
Democrats seek to boost taxes on oil companies
Won’t be easy to bollect $31B oil royalties
FutureGen CEO interview
Amid election, coal takes the offensive
WaPo editorial: The problem with biofuels
Food & agriculture – Feb 27
The footprint of a cheeseburger
FT: Food and the spectre of Malthus
‘Panic’ wheat buying across the US
Breadbasket inflation
In the dark with both hands
Fertilizer shortages caused by the depletion of nonrenewable feedstocks are a significant worry in the wake of peak oil. There’s a simple solution — but most people in the industrial world don’t seem to be able to tell it from a hole in the ground.
Food & agriculture – Feb 26
We chow down on a diet salted with mystery
Obesity more dangerous than terrorism
Opening of global seed vault in Arctic
UK farmers ride income rollercoaster
Uganda: Exposing the African Green Revolution
Food supply – Feb 26
Fighting a losing battle, UN admits
China staring at grain imports
Venezuela limits food exports
America’s grain stocks running short
Wheat: the unstable staple
Hog breeding cut – grain cost
At the movies – Feb 26
There Will Be Blood– dramatization of peak oil?
Renewal (religious environmental activism)
The Gleaners and I (extreme recycling)
Biofuels – Feb 25
Cuban ethanol boom doubtful after Castro exit
Fuel vs Food: NOT! (David Blume)
David Pimentel: Debunking the biofuel myth
Food & agriculture – Feb 25
UN says world fisheries face collapse
Lancaster Farming speaks with Michael Pollan
Biologist tells how climate change affects agriculture
