Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
All the stereotypes of Rutland, Vermont as “backward” and “too conservative” to relocalize its economy through local agriculture are fading into the dustbin of history. (Interview with Greg Cox of Boardman Hill Farms.)
Chinese and US demand drives commodities surge
Drain on the Mediterranean: rising water usage
Europe’s appetite for seafood propels illegal trade
Goodbye helium, goodbye brainscans
Angry Iran warns Turkmenistan on gas
Iran Oil ministry ready to weather frost
Iraq: fuel crisis freezes life
Saudi Arabia scraps wheat growing to save water
A new approach to gardening is highlighted in the book The Earth Knows My Name: “Just as you should never have a monocropped field, so you should never have a monocropped people. If we are going to think about diversity as the key to survival and saving the environment, I really think you can’t have biological diversity succeed without cultural diversity.”
Soil Association bans nanomaterials
Death rates and food prices
Making more food with less (biointensive)
Mushrooms to the rescue in SF Bay oil spill
Fiber CSA’s: Do you know where your yarn has been?
Can sustainable agriculture feed the world?
A systems approach is crucial to assess the energy yield, carbon neutrality, and the full impact of biofuel production on downstream and downwind ecosystems.
Slow Money Revolution: the global growth of local currencies
Grow your own way: How to join the allotment in-crowd
Toward a post-oil community
Ted Trainer and Rob Hopkins interview continued
Peak Moment: What Can One Person Do?
Ecological Society of America on biofuels
Brazil and the human cost of ethanol
Ethanol’s Minnesota roots
You can’t eat gold like you can the bounty of trees in fruits, nuts, maple syrup, and various edible mushrooms and herbal treasures of the woodland. You can’t warm yourself with gold. You can’t bask in the shade of gold.
Orlov and Kunstler interviewed
Reuters on peak oil
Matthew Simmons: Another nail in the coffin of the case against peak oil
Paul Krugman: Dealing with the dragon
China to ban plastic bags
Energy subsidies fuel China steel export
A green bulldozer? S. Korea’s new president
India’s $2,500 cars = $200 oil?
South Asia hit by food shortages
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I’m coming to the view that biofuel growth is by far the greatest near-term challenge arising from the plateauing of global oil supply that we have experienced over the last two years.
