Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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.
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.
It is only half a discussion to talk about the things we’ll have to give up after peak oil and not about the ways in which we’ll obtain the services those things represent.
New Year’s food resolutions
Skinny Bitch in the Kitch
UN to Asia: Grow more food in cities
UK beef producers getting short-changed
Jamie Oliver campaigns for chicken welfare
I sense that we are approaching a tipping point, so I decided to re-embed myself within institutions to have more contact with people and resources to help make a transition to whatever we can create to thrive during the changing times.
For many years I have had an impossible dream for which I give credit to both my now deceased friend, Bob Evans, who made a fortune with a chain of restaurants, and to the American Plains buffalo. Both believed fervently that animals could thrive on year-round grazing, come hell, high water or snow, without any soil cultivation for grains at all.
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
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
Welcome to “peak climate,” “peak food,” “peak water,” “peak electricity,” or as some people are putting it, “peak everything.”
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
Converting chicken fat into biodiesel
Trouble brewing (beer hit by biofuels)
Plant cover in Haiti at 2 percent
The price of biofuels
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.
