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)
Food & Water
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
Biofuels – Apr 27
MIT: The case for burying charcoal
Reduce corn stover for ethanol to preserve soil quality?
Our world is finite: Is this a problem?
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)
Food & agriculture – Apr 22
Michael Pollan on the farm bill: “You are what you grow”
Agriculture and climate change in the Philippines
Where are the lifeboat communities?
Since the limits to growth first came into sight in the Seventies, the creation of “lifeboat communities” to preserve civilization’s legacy through the approaching dark ages has been much discussed. Very little has been done, though, to transform that discussion into action. Crucial lessons can be learned from that failure to act.
