Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
“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.”
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
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
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
How global warming goes against the grain
Michael Ableman – Fields of Plenty
Land Trusts – Keeping Local Agriculture Alive
Linking Land Use Planning and the Food Environment
How will biofuels affect global hunger?
MIT:
Will cellulosic ethanol take off?
Grain pain harms the biofuel industry
We’ll run out of beer before we run out of oil
Biofuels play major role in energy future
Rising corn prices put squeeze on dairies
Alternative fuels and the selling of snake oil
Crises and large scale challenges create fear in many but inspire others to act. What gives relocalization greater value than many other responses is its broader benefit to society, especially to local farmers, producers, community enterprise and businesses.
Who sucks energy: conventional or organic farming?
The social cost of monoculture
Winter harvest
Healthy life from healthy soil
Bon appetit – and now we’re growing our own
The Senate slaps sustainable ag (ATTRA)
Just keep farming until the money runs out
Oz crop production worst in 20 years
Farmland the new hot property
Oilmen say Bush’s energy obstacle: ethanol
Corn Grower VP talks high corn prices
Latin America prepares for prosperity, sparked by biofuel boom
Radical ruling proposed on UK food advertising
Humans’ beef with livestock: a warmer planet
Transportation, food security & local economies
Australian crop production worst in 20 years
How a cookbook renaissance heated up the sustainable-food movement
Sugar rush: consumption jumped from 4 to 90 pounds a year during industrialization
Iraq: Now it is lack of food security
Development gobbling up California farmland
The real cost of bottled water
