You are now entering an oil-free zone
Some towns in the UK aren’t waiting to see whether there will be alternative energy sources when the oil runs out – they’re already trying to do without it. (Transition Towns)
Food & Water
Food & agriculture – Apr 17
Preparing for a world without honeybees
GAO: U.S. food aid practices are wasteful
Astyk:
Food security and relocalization
WSJ:
Ethanol helps lift food costs
Humus, Humility, and Humanure
The Latin root for humus, humility, and humanure are all the same, and translates as “earth.”
Food & agriculture – Apr 13
The self-sufficient gourmand (on 1/3 acre)
Urban farming thrives in Cuba
WorldChanging on apiculture
Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America
Biofuels are not sustainable or renewable. Why would we destroy our topsoil, increase global warming, deplete and pollute groundwater, destroy fisheries, and use more energy than what’s gained to make ethanol?
(Detailed analysis)
Food & agriculture – Apr 9
Britain’s green revolution on the home front
Edible City: Part 2
The fruited plain: corn boom-and-bust
Biofuels – Apr 7
The Economist agrees with Castro on ethanol
City on fire: biodiesel in Thailand
What is the real cost of corn ethanol?
Pioneering Welsh town begins the transition to a life without oil
The people of Lampeter, a small community in the middle of rural Wales, gathered together earlier this week to mobilise for a new war effort. They decided to plan their “energy descent”.
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
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
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
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)
