Biofuels – Nov 13
In farm belt, ethanol plants hit resistance
Québec backing away from corn ethanol
The human cost of bio-fuels
Biofuel boom on Deconstructing Dinner
Food & Water
A grove of trees to live in
Sometimes (maybe always) the most delightful events in life happen seemingly by chance, not plan. Or to say that a better way: if you strive to live with respect for nature’s ways, unforeseen good things happen. And keep on happening. Take a look at the picture that accompanies this article.
China – Nov 9
Growing pains of a superpower
China seeks 30% increase in Saudi oil imports
How China is eating the world
Food & agriculture – Nov 8
UN: Poor countries will have to cut food consumption
TIME: Why our farm policy is failing
Restaurants becoming environmentally friendly
NOW program: Growing local, eating local
Food & fuel – Nov 6
King Corn – ‘delightful documentary’
Monbiot: Western appetite for biofuels is causing starvation
Biofuel boom: greenwashing and crimes against humanity
Food & agriculture – Nov 5
Michael Pollan on the farm bill
Church urges supermarkets to give farmers a fairer deal
Sharon Astyk: Change your diet
Food and community in Katine (Uganda)
Commodity, fuel costs boost grocery prices
Food & agriculture – Nov 3
Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite
U.S. climate bill would pay farmers to store carbon in soil
Farmer Gene Logsdon goes to a French picnic
Fertilizer costs and production risk
Deep thought – Nov 2
The world’s expected carrying capacity in a post industrial agrarian society
Saving the ecosystems of Middle Earth
John Michael Greer: the politics of transition
Food & agriculture – Nov 2
Monty Don of BBC’s ‘Gardeners World’: Why local is best
Study: nitrogen fertilizers deplete soil organic carbon
Global warming and Oklahoma agriculture
Climate – Oct 30
Children particularly at risk from global warming
Schwarzenegger regrets US’s poor climate effort
Malaria moves in behind the loggers (and climate change)
The other side of global warming (controlling the carbon cycle)
Full version of White House “edited” CDC climate report – with highlights!
Food & agriculture – Oct 30
Official UK study: organic really is better
Poor outlook for grain stokes fight over biofuels
Uganda ‘averts tragedy’ with reversal of decision to clear virgin forest for biofuel
Water wars and drought – Oct 28
Great Lakes key front in water wars
Many states facing water shortages
Drought could harm fire prevention in NC
Hay shortage takes toll on horses
Drought fears on the rise in Massachusetts
Will a thirsty Atlanta try to drink our (South Carolina’s) water?
