Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Economist on food: Cheap no more
Food prices climbing, with no end in sight
The garden of the future? (Forest gardens)
New film Tableland documents sustainable farming
Food Summit asks: What’ll we do when the oil runs out?
Diesel prices pick farmers’ wallets
Astyk’s law: “Top-down strategies must be concurrent with and redundant to bottom-up strategies.”
Why urban food production may be Australia’s best answer to drought.
Drive for ‘green’ palm oil adds to CO2 fears
Indonesia to wean off oil, but biofuel use limited
Sri Lankan ceramic firms mull firewood as alternative energy source
Riots and hunger feared as demand for grain sends food costs soaring
The world’s ever-increasing grocery bill
Calculating the carbon footprint of wine: my research findings
Experimenting with a global warming garden
Stay married – divorce is bad for environment
Five-tree fee for a Java wedding
Senior transportation a growing concern
Civic agriculture = sane housing
Practical tools to grow an intentional community
Permaculture pathways to a low carbon future
O.U.R. ecovillage
Implications of biofuel production for US water supplies
How Africa’s desert sun can bring Europe power
Micro-wind turbines often increase CO2
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
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.
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.
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
