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
Food & Water
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.
Biofuels – May 9
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
Food & agriculture – May 9
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)
Peak oil – May 9
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)
Renewables – May 8
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
Food & agriculture – May 7
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?
Food & agriculture – May 6
seedPOD: A “Wikiseedia” for the future of food and farming
Honeybee die-off threatens food supply
Farming will make or break the food chain
Renewables – May 6
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
Birth of a new wedge: agrichar (terra preta)
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.
Food & agriculture – Apr 27
Experts may have found what’s bugging the bees
Feeding the world sustainably
Self-sufficiency on a balcony
Duck-Rice
