Water – Sept 14
Water crisis squeezes California’s economy
Hydro hogs in Portland
Running out of water in Australia
Food & Water
Climate science – Sept 12
Mediterranean’s rich marine life under threat
FAO warns climate change could be major threat to food security
Britain’s mosquito explosion
Climate – Sept 12
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
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 11
MIT discovers appropriate technology
Knitting for the Apocalypse
Free-lunch foragers
Green Acres (TIME discovers eco-villages)
Think longevity
Biofuels – Sept 11
OECD warns against biofuels subsidies
Mali’s farmers discover a weed’s potential power
Cultivating a crop of hope (switchgrass)
Brazil: ethanol divides agribusiness
Food & agriculture – Sept 10
Astyk: Reconsider what you eat
Short on labor, US farmers shift to Mexico
Are air miles and organic food compatible?
The compost post
The English apple: a story of patriotism, dysfunction and cheap jam
Low grain harvest, rising food prices and China’s ethanol plan
China is a case study in which rising food prices and natural disasters influence biofuel production, especially ethanol, leading to new regulations for gasoline exports.
Finding hope in permaculture
There is hope to be found, but it’s not hope that lets us “Pass Go and Collect $200” (i.e., a hope for a comfortable, stress-free life). Rather, it’s a hope for a new life in which we are the architects of our own survival.
End of cheap food – Sept 5
Global growing problem of wheat production
Days of cheap food are over, say superstores as ingredient costs soar
Moscow considers wheat export ban
Mountains of wheat grow as price rises
Peak oil – Sept 3
A small note on Hurricane Felix
Duncan Clarke Responds to David Strahan
ODAC News
Pioneers – Sept 3
Angelo Pelligrini: A man of the earth reaps the good life (local food pioneer)
Dr. Paul MacCready, giant of efficient mobility technologies, passes (1925-2007)
Liberal Democrats aim for a carbon-neutral, non-nuclear Britain
Richard Hawkins on alternative energy technologies
Food & agriculture – Sept 2
The Nation on the Hundred-Mile Diet
Global food crisis looms as climate change and population growth strip fertile land
Climate change and N. America farms to be studied
