Science, food, survival – July 26
Ozone hampering plants’ absorption of CO2
Meat production ‘beefs up emissions’
Reviews: Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
Food & Water
WAG YOUR BELL for P.O.
A comprehensive acronym for the things that each of us can do to deal with Peak Oil.
Biofuels – July 20
Should it matter where your biodiesel comes from?
Ethanol fuels global run-up in food prices
Corn biofuel ‘dangerously oversold’
Report pooh-poohs corn biofuels
Barefoot, bearded and in the kitchen: feminism post-peak
I got an email from a reader named Chris who asked me whether all of my emphasis on producing food and meeting our needs at home wasn’t antifeminist and pushing women back into the kitchen and out of the workforce, and thus, out of the public sphere.
Climate science – July 18
Swiss glacier retreats at a rapid clip
Climate change threatens Italy’s Po River delta
Gulf dead zone to be biggest ever
China says climate change drying up major rivers
Dffects of atmospheric weapons on the environment?
Food & agriculture – July 18
Biofuel demand makes fried food expensive in Indonesia
India: Eight more farmers commit suicide
Ice-cream makers frozen out as corn price rises
Why milk costs more than gas
Solutions & Sustainability – Jul 18
Blitzing the ‘burbs
Woman content living in 84-sq. ft. dream home
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Jims Mowing to franchise Permaculture
Agrofuels – Towards a reality check in nine key areas
The rush for ‘biofuels’ is already causing serious damage. Far from being sustainable, the spread of what are more accurately called ‘agrofuels’ – liquid fuels produced from biomass grown in large-scale monocultures – is compromising biodiversity and fuelling human rights violations.
Food & agriculture – July 16
Battle between the bottle and the faucet
UN warns it cannot afford to feed the world
Kenyan fury at threat to organic trade
Groceries gobble up budgets
Italians facing pasta price rise
Astyk: Low energy food preservation
In West China, saving the go-go juice
Along the way to Lai Tan, I wanted to gaze out of bus windows and simply compare the differences between Chinese and western methods of fossil fuel use and human power, but first I had to get to the bus station.
On the precipice: Energy security and economic stability on the edge
I am a Major in the United States Army. …I set out to discover what some of the best minds in the world had to say about what the world might look like 20-plus years from now. Specifically, I intended to examine population growth, food production, water availability, and energy supplies. What I discovered shocked me. (Online report)
Organic farming can feed the world
Organic farming can yield up to three times as much food on individual farms in developing countries, as low-intensive methods on the same land—according to new findings which refute the long-standing claim that organic farming methods cannot produce enough food to feed the global population.
