Solutions & sustainability – Dec 4
Practical tools to grow an intentional community
Permaculture pathways to a low carbon future
O.U.R. ecovillage
Food & Water
Renewables – Dec 3
Implications of biofuel production for US water supplies
How Africa’s desert sun can bring Europe power
Micro-wind turbines often increase CO2
Food & agriculture – Dec 3
A dirty way to fight climate change: Store carbon in the soil
Ending famine by ignoring the experts
Fertiliser at a price – if you can get it
Co-operatives: alternatives to industrial food
Easy way to start a grove of trees (with black walnut jam cake recipe)
I find in my tree sanctuaries what no king or CEO (today’s version of a king) can buy for any amount of money: tranquility.
What will we eat as the oil runs out?
Our global food system faces a crisis of unprecedented scope. This crisis, which threatens to imperil the lives of hundreds of millions and possibly billions of human beings, consists of four simultaneously colliding dilemmas, all arising from our relatively recent pattern of dependence on depleting fossil fuels.
United States and Canada – Dec 2
Deal reached on fuel economy standards
Can solving global warming save our economy?
Mr. Harper’s cold comfort for Canadians
Oil Scrooge boosts costs for shipping
Mindful eating crusader to take top US nutrition post
Trash is a choice – Dec 1
We can be garbage free
N.Y. activist preaches deliverance from retail
EB Review: The Humanure Handbook
Food & agriculture – Nov 28
Studies: Is organic better? It depends
Vienna Vegetable Orchestra
Backyard gardens shelter Europe’s orphan seeds
Australian farmer: Wave of costs arriving to a farm near you
Biofuels – Nov 28
WSJ: Ethanol craze cools as doubts multiply
Are we backing the wrong fix for global warming?
Corn ethanol and the Great Dust Bowl
Fuel quest may create food crisis
Where the wild things are
For the past four years, Adam Grubb has been acquainting himself with the medicinal and nutritional qualities of plants that thrive on neglect, often in poor soils, on marginal land. He says his interest in weeds sprang from his work as founding editor of Energy Bulletin.
Food & agriculture – Nov 27
Old McDonald had a farm…and he got arrested
Farmyard stills quench a thirst for local spirits
So what’s so bad about corn?
Sharon Astyk: The pet thing
The lovely, life-saving virtue of laziness
The work ethic, before which our culture bows down in adoration, can result in failure perhaps as often as it does success. I came to that conclusion after many years of trying to follow an ecologically-sustainable lifestyle out on the ramparts of society.
