Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Cardiovascular disease and diabetes mortality reductions found after population-wide weight loss during 1989-2000 Cuban economic crisis. [Since Cuba is an example of what peak oil might look like, this study provides hints at the effects of peak oil on public health.]
Scientists making Brazil’s savannah bloom
Peak forestry in Tasmania?
Soil Matters CSA / nutritionist Marion Nestle
Let the East bloom again
As prices soar, U.S. food aid buys less
Country-of-origin stickers coming
The Everyman who exposed tainted toothpaste
Ethanol’s boom stalling as glut depresses price
Bartlett pessimistic on biofuels
Biofuels could boost global warming
National Geographic: Green Dreams
Interview with Rob Williams of Vermont Independence, an organization working to establish The Second Vermont Republic.
Corn farms prosper, but subsidies still flow
Big potential and challenges for biofuels in Africa
Jatropha: fuel for thought?
Boeing 747 to fly on bio-fuel
Vaclav Havel: Our moral footprint
Sharon Astyk: The water fountain
Global food shock real, says former Australian political leader
The Internet: our last hope for a free press
From Scotland to the Channel Islands the cry goes up: ‘Banish the plastic bag’
Making sewage water good to drink
Rise of the anti-restaurant
Factory farming hard on the planet
Frog deformities linked to farm pollution
Only a handful are lords of the food harvest
Book Review: Guerrilla Gardening
Lunch With Alice Waters, food revolutionary
Restricting calories may lead to longevity
The peasant in present day India
NY Times: A chicken on every plot
Amazon farmers grow grain, save the forest
Agriculture in the future will be largely a “family affair”: without motorized vehicles, food will have to be produced not far from where it was consumed. But what crops should be grown? How much land would be needed? Where could people be supported by such methods of agriculture?
NY Times: The high costs of ethanol
The myths of biofuels (new video)
OECD report: the high costs of biofuels
Swiss report on biofuels
