Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Former weed may fill world’s fuel tanks (jatropha)
Rising fears of an ethanol bust
Global rush to energy crops threatens to bring food shortages and increase poverty, says UN
Ethanol has a smoggy side
Energy Charter Secretariat report on biofuels
…and he built a carbon house
Urban farms empower Africa
B.C. First Nations returning to agricultural roots
Switch to organic crops could help poor
High hopes for native sandalwood (Australia)
Big Oil running out of oil
Review of Pfeiffer’s Eating Fossil Fuels
Gas gouging legislation – finding scapegoats
Maersk: oil production in North Sea at peak
ODAC News May 9 (JUST ADDED)
Jet stream could fill global energy needs, say researchers
How a market for sustainable bio-energy is being developed
Farmer: Renewable is not a synonym for sustainable
Questioning the compost supply chain
100-mile diet: ‘Food mile’ foibles.
As the climate warms, gentler plants move in
Please Lord, not the bees
Astyk: No more scrod
Could the mysterious agricultural techniques of an ancient Amazonian civilization make New Zealand farming more competitive?
seedPOD: A “Wikiseedia” for the future of food and farming
Honeybee die-off threatens food supply
Farming will make or break the food chain
Power station harnesses Sun’s rays
Wind farms may not lower air pollution
Libertarian Stossel:
Sacrificing our children to the ‘Corn God’
The book that oil companies don’t want you to know about: Alcohol Can Be A Gas
The first meeting of the International Agrichar Initiative convened about 100 scientists, policymakers, farmers and investors with the goal of birthing an entire new industry to produce a biofuel that goes beyond carbon neutral and is actually carbon negative. The industry could provide a “wedge” of carbon reduction amounting to a minimum of ten percent of world emissions and possibly much more.
Experts may have found what’s bugging the bees
Feeding the world sustainably
Self-sufficiency on a balcony
Duck-Rice
MIT: The case for burying charcoal
Reduce corn stover for ethanol to preserve soil quality?
We all know the world is finite. We also know that growth is central to our way of life. At some point, growth in resource utilization must collide with the fact that the world is finite. We are now reaching that point. (Includes discussion questions)
Michael Pollan on the farm bill: “You are what you grow”
Agriculture and climate change in the Philippines
