Deep thought – Feb 7
Hooked on growth: our misguided quest for prosperity
Rolf Nordstrom discusses depletion scenarios
Feeding people
The big picture: climate chaos (Jamais Cascio)
The organic apocalypse
Food & Water
Food & agriculture – Feb 7
Fermentation and food: The revolution will not be microwaved
Farming the Amazon with a machete and mulch
Homogeneous horror in agriculture
Bob Waldrop on local food systems
The birth of a farmers’ market
Peak oil – Feb 7
WSJ: Peak-oilers put money where mouths are
BP to ‘put lights out’ on North Sea
Telegraph: Why the price of ‘peak oil’ is famine
David Strahan at World Energy Summit
Analyst Maxwell: PO means 10-year crisis
Desperately seeking energy in Lincoln, Mass.
Biofuels – Feb 6
Solution to energy independence is at local level
Record financing for biofuels, not food
Biofuels make little environmental difference
Fertilizer – Feb 6
Fertiliser famine threats to hit harvests
Gulf to become major fertiliser producer
Nebraska Farmer: Time to be more accurate with fertilizer
Farm group backs plan for fertiliser price probe
Market spotlight: fertilizer companies
Dysfunction – Feb 5
Obesity becoming world crisis
The world’s rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
Wilderness under threat as visitors stay indoors
Deep thought – Feb 5
I am human, I’m American, and I’m an addict…
The Tata Nano strikes back – Does Jeavons’ Paradox apply to productivity, too?
Jeffersonian agrarianism and the question of slavery
A material world
On Monbiot’s population comments
The acorn tree syndrome strikes again
Is it not scary when so many people no longer know that potatoes grow underground? Can the nature-illiterate vote intelligently about food issues?
Food & agriculture – Feb 2
Climate ‘could devastate crops’
Australia to investigate fertiliser prices
Mexican farmers protest end of corn-import taxes
Food & agriculture – Feb 1
The hedge fund manager who bought a farm
National Farmers Union: Realism needed on biofuels
Vibing on vertical farms
Is the desire to relocalize merely aesthetic?
If the concept of peak oil proves anything, it’s that this most “utilitarian” civilization in history is paradoxically one of the most blind. How can we, who are so practical and scientific, have failed to notice that we were careening toward the edge of this cliff? And is it possible that our conditioned insensitivity to so-called “aesthetic” concerns is, in fact, a big part of the problem?
How long can paper dollars keep a house warm?
What is wrong about allowing money to “grow” as if it were a real thing? Answer: Real things grow, mature and die. Pretend money grows and grows every second of every hour of every day and night. Pretend money therefore tends to overwhelm the growth rate of real resources.
