Food & agriculture – Jan 31
Poor Haitians resort to eating dirt
Global warming will lead to crop losses
World Economic Forum report warns of food shortage
Food & Water
Asking better questions
The discussion at The Oil Drum takes a more personal nature with me; much of my own history involves looking back toward a simpler time in agriculture. (The account of a “recovering energy engineer.”)
Food & agriculture – Jan 30
Top chefs on avoiding food waste
Price freezes squeeze Chinese farmers
Eco-Farm: California dreaming
Meat is a climate crime = more industrialized farming?
Agriculture is changing the chemistry of the Mississippi River
Water – Jan 29
Peak water in Saudi Arabia
Food and drink giants pledge to reduce water use in UK
Farmers work to conserve water
Peak oil – Jan 29
TOD blockbuster: “Powering civilization to 2050” by Stuart Staniford
Will peak oil drive relocalization?
Investment guru Jim Rogers: $90 to $100 oil not high enough to slow demand
Barclays Capital: Triple digit oil price regardless of peak
Science 1101 – Petroleum and peak oil
A university near where I live plans to add a short unit on “Petroleum and Peak Oil” to their Science 1101 course for freshman who are not science majors. The university asked me to prepare materials for the unit. (Draft)
Food & agriculture – Jan 28
Farmers, plan ahead to avoid fertilizer shortages
Rethinking the meat-guzzler
A dying breed (animal breeds)
Astyk: How big is a farm? Who is a farmer?
Cuban permaculturalist to tour Australia
Food & agriculture – Jan 25
Eco-Farm: Eric Schlosser on Florida pickers and fair wages
Gates hopes his money can help poorest farmers
Canada: Faraway food production
Mendocino renegade
Climate science – Jan 25
Humans have pushed planet into a new geological era
AGU: Climate ‘clearly out of balance’
Greenhouse ocean may downsize fish
Biofuels – Jan 25
Vinod Khosla: Biomass I, II and III
Der Spiegel: Critique mounts against biofuels
Biofuels – Jan 24
More bad news for ethanol – UC researchers say it could be twice as bad as gasoline in terms of emissions
Biofuel production may worsen water, food problems in Asia : study
Lester Brown: Ethanol production will drive food prices higher
Lawn to farm: suburbia’s silver lining
I look at the empty countryside around our farm and can’t help but wish it were as thick with people as when my grandparents made a living here.
