Food & agriculture – Jan 2
The perfect casserole: just add badger
Supermarket flies fish 5,000 miles from country where millions are starving
The invisible ingredient in every kitchen: heat
Sharon Astyk: Future of the quik ‘n easy meal
Food & Water
Food & agriculture – Dec 28
Why “the end of cheap food” isn’t automatically a good thing
Does less energy mean more farmers ?
Resisting the globalization of food: the return of the bread riot
The peak oil crisis: storm of the century
Welcome to “peak climate,” “peak food,” “peak water,” “peak electricity,” or as some people are putting it, “peak everything.”
Food & agriculture – Dec 20
The greasier the city, the fatter its residents
Can Britain feed itself?
The Fife Diet: Local Scottish food
World food stocks dwindling rapidly, UN warns
Food prices soar in America
Biofuels – Dec 20
Converting chicken fat into biodiesel
Trouble brewing (beer hit by biofuels)
Plant cover in Haiti at 2 percent
The price of biofuels
Agriculture: closing the circle
Conventional wisdom holds that modern industrial agriculture is “more advanced” and thus by definition better than the alternatives. From an ecological standpoint, the reverse is true — and understanding the primitive, backward nature of industrial agriculture offers a model that helps make sense of other transitions facing us.
China – Dec 19
Can the world survive China’s headlong rush to emulate the American way of life?
As China goes, so goes global warming
Eco-city in China gives off aroma of green – money
In China, farming fish in toxic waters
China says it will run short of water by 2030
Biofuels – Dec 19
Rep. Bartlett votes against ethanol mandate
As ethanol takes its first steps, Congress proposes a giant leap
Food and fuel compete for land
MIT: The price of biofuels
US corn boom threatens sea life
Peak soil + peak oil = peak spoils
Food & agriculture – Dec 18
Michael Pollan: Our decrepit food factories
Worrisome forecast for the world’s crops
Astyk: The price of things: a future agriculture
Newsweek: Food vs. fuel
How much food can I grow around my house?
Future of food in the Kootenays (conference)
What kind of tree do acorns grow on?
A teacher friend called recently with a strange message. “I just found out that a lot of people don’t know what tree acorns grow on.”
Agriculture: the price of adaptation
It’s becoming increasingly recognized that today’s industrial agriculture will stop being viable once cheap abundant fossil fuel becomes a thing of the past. Less often recognized are adaptations already taking place that will allow more sustainable agricultural systems to take its place – but at a price.
Food & agriculture – Dec 12
Bertrand Russell on savants, gardeners and happiness
Oxford word of the year: “Locavore”
If it’s fresh and local, is it always greener?
Eating + Ecology = Locavore
Eco-friendly kangaroo farts could help global warming
Growing food when the oil runs out
We are what we eat
