Food & agriculture – Mar 19
Tim Flannery talks bio char and why we need to move into the renewable age
Russia sets new fertiliser export tariffs
Food miles skepticism
The local grain revolution
Deconstructing dinner in our schools
Food & Water
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 19
Holmgren and permaculture: Backyard answer to energy crisis
Rosemary’s gardens: permaculture and nutritional gardens in Cambodia
Hope dances eternal for media maven
Healing the farmer, healing the land
If you eat more than one chemically grown watermelon you will get diarrhea, we learned from the organic watermelon farmer. Fourteen such melons had killed an elephant, he added.
Food & agriculture – Mar 17
Warning of world phosphate shortage
Heinberg’s garden
Edible landscape likely to become a U.S. paradigm
Peak oil camp – Mar 17
How shipping containers shortened the lifespan of petro-civilization
Is peak oil theory only for fascists?
“Energy Descent Pathways” now online
Simmons: Key investment questions For 2008+
Sydney must prepare now for peak oil
Sharon Astyk: Dinner, and whether you’ll be getting any, to 2050
Kunstleriana
Shortages – Mar 17
Energy, water demands are on collision course
Concerns over Kenya’s food security
Shortages of energy, food worry Pakistanis
Residents stung by high cost of utilities
NYT: Costs surge for stocking the pantry
Taking steps – Mar 17
Clotheslines rule
Industry scrambles to find a ‘greener’ concrete
Open 28 hours
Sanitation goals slip; nature can help
Food & agriculture – Mar 13
How to grow your own wheat
So, you want to be a farmer?
Homegrown way to address climate change
Australia’s food bowl lies empty
Pieces of the puzzle
Too much discussion about responding to peak oil has focused on finding a single solution to the complex predicament we face. Start with the recognition that we don’t have any models for a sustainable technic society to work from, and a more flexible (and arguably more successful) strategy comes within reach.
Food & drink – Mar 11
Dmitry Orlov: Grandpa Orlov’s vodka recipe
Gene Logsdon: A new look at ol’ demon alcohol
Sharon Astyk: climate-friendly bulk dry foods
Food & agriculture – Mar 11
Sustainable food (and over-regulation)
UK honey bees ‘wiped out in 10 years’
The Greenhorns: New breed Of American Idol?
UN warns on food price inflation
Food crisis will take hold before climate change, warns chief scientist
Peak oil – Mar 11
Stuart Staniford: Food to 2050
Matt Simmons on Fast Money
Green UK MEP
Caroline Lucas on PO, food and Transition Handbook
The Australia 2020 Summit – climate & PO
Rep. Bartlett Delivers 39th PO talk (video)
