Food & agriculture – Apr 4
Heinberg: Why peak oil mandates a new farming paradigm
Oil, climate threaten food supply: B.C. report
Newsweek gets organic
What’s happening to the bees
Food & Water
Palm biodiesel – Apr 4
Palm oil failing as biofuel
Palm oil is not a failure as a biofuel
The biofuel of the future driving an ecological disaster now
Biofuels – Apr 4
Foreign Affairs: Biofuels could starve the poor
Castro: US to starve world
Monsanto 2Q profit boosted by corn sales
Fertilizer shortage this spring due to ethanol
Solutions & sustainability – April 2
ELP plan: Economize, Localize & Produce
Chicks teach sustainable community
Peak Moment TV highlights localization
WorldChanging is making lists
CSIRO Sustainability Network newsletter
Lovins: US can cut oil imports to zero by 2040
Stories for sustainable future (Orlov on sailboats)
Next IPCC climate report due Friday: outlook not good
Poor nations to bear brunt as world warms
Climate report maps out ‘Highway to extinction’
GW could bring hunger, melt Himalayas
Global warming puts 60 nations at risk
Australia faces extreme weather rise
Health woes worldwide
Food & agriculture – March 31
Edible City
Food, climate change and the coming energy crises
Punishment for gluttons?
The limits of a Green Revolution?
Biofuels – March 30 (2)
Corn is not the future of U.S. ethanol: DOE
Brazil’s da Silva: Our biofuels partnership
UK slams US biofuel subsidies
Huge jump in corn planting expected
Ethanol fuels jumps in Nebraska agricultural land values
Solutions & sustainability – March 28
Strategic consumption: Changing the world with what you buy
Sustaining change from the middle ground
APPLE leader inspires others to help planet
Organic gardens vs. chem-fed lawns
Less carbon, more community
The transition to renewable energy
Food & agriculture – March 27
The 100-foot diet
The Crikey water diet
Natural vending machines and the psychology of snacking
Faustus and the monkey trap
What makes the crisis of industrial society so challenging to cope with is the way it unfolds out of the very strategies that worked so well in other contexts. Current attempts to replace oil with ethanol — in effect, pouring our food supply into our gas tanks — point to an urgent need to reconsider some of our most basic assumptions about what exactly the problem is.
Biofuels – March 25
Lester Brown: Massive diversion of U.S. grain to fuel cars is raising world food prices
WaPo: Corn can’t solve our problem
China’s corn exports may plunge as local demand rises
Food & agriculture – March 23
Black Gold of the Amazon
Most important crops hit by global warming
Climate change hits cereal crops, lab says
In Midwest, young farmers priced out of land
China’s corn exports may plunge as local demand rises
Ganong: oil prices put strain on chocolate manufacturer
