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
Food & Water
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
Food prices on rise – Sept 2
Food prices set to surge 50% within five years
Britons hungry for organic fare, but prices up
Yemeni food price protests turn violent
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 2
Homespun living Pasadena family gets basics from own efforts
The green faith effect
Pope to youth: Save planet ‘before it is too late’
Food & agriculture – Aug 31
Milk is the new oil
Biofuels and small farmers
Food demand and climate straining soils
‘Get Local’ campaign aims at its neighbours
Australia:
Goodman warns of a rise in food prices
Planetary thinking – Aug 31
The nexus of water, energy and climate
Dirt isn’t so cheap after all
Humans now use 25% of the Earth’s productivity
Biofuels – Aug 29
Kenya: Biofuels likely to boost energy but increase hunger
The looming food crisis
Nothing is simple, not even biofuels
