Solutions & sustainability – Mar 16
Profiles in municipal sustainability
Company fuels Second Harvest during Alberta’s fuel crisis
Earth: Home sweet home (animation)
Blogs can top the presses
Food & Water
Garbage & stuff – March 16
A short history of what man covets
most – STUFF
The end of garbage
Britons throw out a third of all food
Kovattana: A hoarders guide to the end of the world
Food & agriculture – March 15
Linking regional farmers and buyers in Idaho
An experiment in back yard sustainability
Big Food’s lie about feeding the world
Malaysia: Fast food sector bows to ministry’s ad demands
Scientists need to confront economists about peak oil
Letter published in Nature from co-founder of Beyond Oil South Australia, responding to recent Thats Oil Folks article.
Food and agriculture – Mar 10
Challenges, threats and opportunities for sustainable agriculture, Part II
Food sector vulnerable to emergencies, says study
The Man Who Farms Water
And on This Farm She Found a Future
Biofuels & Latin America – Mar 9
Bush hails biofuels pact in Brazil
Brazil’s ethanol slaves
US looks to Brazil to fuel energy revolution
Cuba-Venezuela: Making biofuels without wasting food
Tortillas spark inflation, drive down Mexico’s peso
Biofuels – March 5
UK Independent: The big green fuel lie
Brazil accused of growing biofuel under conditions like slave labor
Gasification may be key to U.S. ethanol
A moral solution to our energy problem
‘We’ve got to have more corn,’ expert says
Food & agriculture – Mar 5
Challenges, threats, and opportunities for sustainable agriculture
And on This Farm She Found a Future
Has Real Estate Lost Its Sizzle? Not on the Farm
NYC Fast-Food Chains Pull Calorie Info
Malaysia Proposes New Fast Food Rules
Five questions for the 21st Century
“Matthew Simmons, a distinguished petroleum investor who is no liberal Democrat tree-hugger like me, he is one of the Bush family’s close friends. He’s a conservative Republican. He says we have 35 years of recoverable oil left.”
Biofuels – March 3
Ag dept: Ethanol to bump up food prices
Attack of the cereal killers
DOE to fund 6 cellulosic ethanol plants
BioenergyWiki – sustainability standards
CounterPunch: The ethanol scam
The silence of the bees – March 2
Big Gav on the silence of the bees
NYT:
Honeybees vanish, leaving keepers in peril
Bee here, now – victim of industrial agriculture
Honeybees dying at alarming rate
State insect at risk
Deaths of honeybees puzzling
Food & agriculture – March 2
Cambodians make big gains with organic farming
Food of the future, and the future of food
Exploring a free kitchen in Delhi
Appreciation: The Soil and Health by Sir Albert Howard
