Food & agriculture – Feb 27
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
Food & Water
Biofuels – Feb 26
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
Relocalisation – acting locally on global issues
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.
Food & agriculture – Feb 25
Who sucks energy: conventional or organic farming?
The social cost of monoculture
Winter harvest
Healthy life from healthy soil
Biofuels – Feb 22
Oilmen say Bush’s energy obstacle: ethanol
Corn Grower VP talks high corn prices
Latin America prepares for prosperity, sparked by biofuel boom
Food & agriculture – Feb 22
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
Food & agriculture – Feb 20
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
Food & agriculture – Feb 19
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
Biofuels – Feb 17
The real problem with corn-based ethanol
For Ethanol, the Future Is Now
British Millers Worried by Biofuel Subsidy
Biofuel demand unsustainable?
Confectioners questions EU biofuel policy
Biofuels – Feb 15
What is the real cost of corn ethanol?
S. Africa: Making sure it’s worth the candle
Ethanol has fish, wildlife officials worried
Jatropha, the Cinderella plant
Biofuels – Feb 14
Ag economist: Ethanol’s growth and implications for grain producers
Brazil sees biofuel demand as unsustainable
Biofuels will make China, India more thirsty
RFA: Bush’s farm bill not adequate for cellulosic
Food & agriculture – Feb 14
Agri-business exposed (Cargill)
Vandana Shiva’s address to UK Soil Association
Penn. group blasts corporate farming
