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.
Food & Water
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)
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
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.
The case for the electric tractor
In our search for ways to reduce the tension between food vs. fuel comes the latest Energy Farm Demonstration Project: The Electric Tractor.
Not only does this appear to be an economically wise investment, but electric tractors are a pleasure to use.
Solutions & sustainability – July 11
Preaching the anti-shopping gospel
Downsize my dish (less food please)
Green chemistry: changing an industry
Maryland Governor challenge on energy saving
Biofuels – July 10
Fuel rules soak soap makers
Could jatropha be a biofuel panacea?
Brazilian ethanol ‘slaves’ freed in raid on plantation
The case for turning crops into fuel
Food & agriculture – July 10
The new food crusade (U.S. farm bill)
How to stop cows burping
End of cheap-food era bad news for poor
Where have all the bees gone?
Eco-Kosher movement heeds tradition, conscience
Rising sea levels pose threat to rice
The dark side of soy
Lessons from our ancestors about the countryside
For a year five experts ditched theory for practice, running a Welsh farm using 17th Century methods. (What our great- great- great- … grandparents can teach us about saving the world.)
Pray for rain: stories from the drought bus
Australia is in the seventh year of the worst drought in the country’s history. Farmers and business people, and drought bus workers, tell their stories of drought.
Food & agriculture – July 6
Sharon Astyk interview
California’s Boxer’s push to protect honeybees
McDonald’s goes green- but not all customers are lovin’ it
Preparing for permaculture
Interview with permaculture expert Robyn Francis in New South Wales, Australia, about the evolution of farming, peak oil and hope for the future.
