Food & agriculture – Oct 8
Gene Logsdon: Thoughts on economic “inevitability”
UN backs organic farming
How to fertilize urban good deserts
Food & Water
Biofuels – Oct 5
Cellulosic ethanol: running cars on lawn cuttings
Biofuel bandwagon slows as feedstock prices surge
BBC: Will biofuel leave the poor hungry?
Green fuels will save the earth – or not
Burma – Oct 3
Burma: It’s the oil and gas, stupid
Amy Goodman: Chevron’s pipeline is the Burmese regime’s lifeline
The hardship that sparked Burma’s unrest
Costly fuel is never far from a match
Oil versus monks
Global hypocrisy on Burma
Impact of population-wide weight loss observed
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.]
Food & agriculture – Oct 2
Scientists making Brazil’s savannah bloom
Peak forestry in Tasmania?
Soil Matters CSA / nutritionist Marion Nestle
Food & agriculture – Oct 1
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
Biofuels – Oct 1
Ethanol’s boom stalling as glut depresses price
Bartlett pessimistic on biofuels
Biofuels could boost global warming
National Geographic: Green Dreams
Secede from the United States?
Interview with Rob Williams of Vermont Independence, an organization working to establish The Second Vermont Republic.
Biofuels – Sept 28
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
Deep thought – Sept 28
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
Waste – Sept 27
From Scotland to the Channel Islands the cry goes up: ‘Banish the plastic bag’
Making sewage water good to drink
Food & agriculture – Sept 26
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
