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 & Water
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.
Climate – July 3
EU paper shows options on warming Europe
Livestock to breathe easy (methane)
Warming could increase U.S. death rate
Sad – July 3
For poor families, a burden of too many pets
How did it come to this? (eco-sabotage trials)
The new age of ignorance (about science)
Our place on Earth – July 3
How many people have ever lived on Earth?
Human greed takes lion’s share of solar energy
Empty plates tomorrow
Food & agriculture – July 1
Toward a garden truce in New York City
UK organic food under threat- too much demand
Conservative Hanson: Fuel and food create spiral of rising prices
Call for a moratorium on EU agrofuel incentives
Population & environment – June 30
This planet ain’t big enough for the 6,500,000,000 of us
UN warns urban populations set to double
American Institute of Biological Sciences on population, environment
The carbon cycle: Implications for climate change and Congress (gov’t report)
Biofuels – June 29
BBC: Charity attacks rush for biofuels
Groups unite to halt EU biofuels rush
Audio discussion on BBC
Energy Secretary Bodman announces three new labs, federal funding for biofuels
The bullseye diet
Instead of a 100-mile diet, think of a bulls eye model, which emphasizes bringing as much of your diet as possible home to your local area.
Putting another log on the fire
So I got my first internet based marital proposition from someone in federal prison (minimum security, I was assured!) the other day.
Solutions & sustainability – June 28
The 12 steps of Transition – the movie(s)
Soil: The secret solution to global warming
Terra Preta- agricultural miracle from the past?
10 Steps to a slow home
Germany mulling program to boost energy efficiency
