Food & agriculture – Aug 11
Climate change challenges gardeners to plant smarter
Scientific American: Hello perennial agriculture!
Popcorn packaging – is it edible?
Food & Water
Solutions & Sustainability – Aug 10
Rolling green
Pursuing sustainability at Community Colleges
Transition Town Totnes on BBC Scotland, & New Transition Film on Youtube
Mainstreaming Clean Energy in Rizhao, China
Food & agriculture – Aug 8
Food that travels well (food miles)
A truly African green revolution
Ethanol feeds hot market for farmland
Urban farming’s time has come (eliminating restrictions)
Biofuels – Aug 6
Boom in biofuels could backfire (climate effects of more nitrogen fertilizer)
National Express quits biofuel experiment
Cruise line signs biodiesel contract
Peak Oil – Aug 5
Peak Oil Passnotes: To Sir [David King] With love
Peak oil – expensive food
Do your part to destroy the Earth
TOD Round-Up: August 3rd 2007
Biofuels – Aug 4
Making gasoline from bacteria (LS9)
Big Sugar envisions its future powered by ethanol
First bio diesel shipment leaves Darwin
Losing land to palm oil in Kalimantan
Food & agriculture – Aug 4
Forget the farm bill: For now, local politics is the way to effect ag-policy change
As imports of foreign produce increase, California farmers lose out
Ag professor urges ‘sustainable’ solution, not biofuels
Food & agriculture – Aug 2
Rethinking biochar (loma preta)
Meet the new yard [with climate change]: tropical plants, invasive species and drunken trees
Ambitious Maverick Farms promotes local food – and the future of farming
Permaculture and peak oil – Aug 1
David Holmgren on peak oil, energy descent and permaculture (video)
Online permaculture talks: “The Era of Post Carbon Transition”
Biofuels – July 31
David Blume’s Alcohol Can Be A Gas book
LS9 promises ‘renewable petroleum’
Poison plant could help to cure the planet
The ethanol effect
Worrying about food – July 31
UK floods underline urgency of achieving national self-reliance in food crops
Copper thieves cripple farms in California
Copper theft spoils food bank groceries ($484,000 worth)
History prof: Worry about bread, not oil
WSJ: Green Revolution at risk of going bust
Upside down economics
The entire economy stands on the shoulders of agriculture, forestry, and mining (especially the extraction of oil, gas, coal and uranium) and on the utilities that deliver the energy mined in usable form.
