Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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
Can’t we all just … be vegans?
Return of GM in UK: climate concerns may reduce backlash
Fuel shortages may hurt corn harvesting
Make or break time for Australian harvest
Toxic jatropha not magic biofuel crop
The biofuel backlash
Farmers tout alfalfa as fuel
Interview with Lisa McCrory and Carl Russell in rural Vermont who teach a variety of skills for sustainable living, including the use of draft animals in raising organic crops.
Taking a class, joining a tribe (Master Gardeners)
Sharon Astyk:
Vegeculture: Further rethinking how we eat
Taste, nutrients decline as size of crops grows
Can China clean up its food by going organic?
Farm runoff feeds dead zone
Is eating local the best choice?
Water crisis squeezes California’s economy
Hydro hogs in Portland
Running out of water in Australia
Mediterranean’s rich marine life under threat
FAO warns climate change could be major threat to food security
Britain’s mosquito explosion
Can we fight terrorism by reducing CO2 emissions?
Lawmakers favor carbon caps, trading; economists prefer a tax
Federal officials get no guidance on climate change
Economist: developing nations to suffer most
Powerful storms and global warming
MIT discovers appropriate technology
Knitting for the Apocalypse
Free-lunch foragers
Green Acres (TIME discovers eco-villages)
Think longevity
OECD warns against biofuels subsidies
Mali’s farmers discover a weed’s potential power
Cultivating a crop of hope (switchgrass)
Brazil: ethanol divides agribusiness
