Digging dollars: make-work, agriculture and empire
If, all of a sudden your work was to disappear from the planet – no one was doing it – how much would anyone really suffer?
Food & Water
Food & agriculture – May 24
Barbara Kingsolver: Eating locally and debunking the red-blue divide
Kingolver talk (video)
How green is your garden? Not as much as you might think.
Food & agriculture – May 22
Biochar (terra preta) turns a negative positive
British prawns go to China to be shelled
Sky-high corn means hogs get candy
Why food costs more
Tilling our own soil: Preparing a surge capacity for food
The system of getting nearly all our food from industrial agriculture located elsewhere works as long as petrochemicals are cheap. If the world reaches the “peak” of petroleum (and later of natural gas) production, the price of food would most certainly increase If we take this contingency of expensive food seriously, what is to be done?
Biofuels – May 19
Rise of biofuel crops threatens native tribes
Forestry leaders debate biomass potential
Food & agriculture – May 19
Eating organic on a food stamp budget
Bitter-sweet Harvest- a beekeeper’s year
Terra Preta – May 18
Scientific American: Inspired by ancient Amazonians, a plan to convert trash into environmental treasure
New website for technical information and discussions of Terra Preta
Biofuels – May 15
Tough bacteria may hold promise for biofuel
Algal biodiesel: fact or fiction?
Chomsky on ethanol
Food & agriculture – May 14
Terra Preta in Nature: A handful of carbon
New York barges into sustainable urban farming
Milk production peaking
Solutions & sustainability – May 14
8am: Shower. Save the water. Save the planet
Heinberg, Pollan, Kingsolver on PO and sustainable food
Mental health benefits of natural, low-cost ecotherapy
52 Weeks of Energy Cuts: #3 Make it yourself
Corn ethanol – May 13
Hershey mired in chocolate mess (corn prices)
Ethanol seen chomping into corn crops
USDA economist projects 58% growth in ethanol
Food preservation and democracy
Not only is independence worth striving for because it is good for us, our nation and our families, but also because someday we may depend on these skills and knowledge – and right now we might have a better country if we did this.
