Farmers and biofuels – Jan 14
The farmer is the man [and woman] – report from Kentucky
Out-of-control burn-your-food-for-fuel policy
Biofuels boom pinches the world’s poorest
Food & Water
Justice, Farms and Victory Gardens
We have the power to feed ourselves even in a future of resource depletion if we are willing to do the work of creating a subsistence economy.
Linking Land Use Planning and the Food Environment
An emerging issue in the smart growth field is the link between a healthy food environment and good land use planning.
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 10
Barren larder, heavy heart (local food)
Deconstructing dinner: conference highlights
Do vehicles really protect children?
A world without waste?
Finding the green in building renovation
Peak Moment covers PO solutions
Biofuels – Jan 8
Minnesota poised to go green
NYT: Rise in ethanol raises concerns about corn as a food
Soybeans may grow scarce
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 8
10 books on solutions for energy descent
Google hires William McDonough to design green center
Online activism 2.0: movement building
Food & agriculture – Jan 8
World may be facing highest grain prices in history
Era of cheap world food ending
Hard to swallow (food worse than cars for climate?)
An inconvenient truth: we are eating our planet to death
PAY DIRT: Fighting global warming with a ‘dirty’ strategy
My 2007 peak oil to do list
If we start now and do every day what we can do, we have a good chance of looking back in a few years and being pleasantly surprised that we made it – changed, for sure, but still here.
2006 top green tech ideas
In 2005, Americans woke up to the reality of peak oil. In 2006, we started seeing more attention to the two paths that can lead us forward:
energy efficiency and renewable energy. A number of good ideas have surfaced.
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 5
The turning of the worm [soil]
Toward energy self-sufficiency
Why educating girls pays off more
New initiative to deglobalize economy of SF Bay Area
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 3
Perils and rewards of carless parenting
He’s still following the sun
Surprising secret to a long life: stay in school
Black earth
Biofuels and agriculture – Jan 3
Biofuels 2006: How is the value chain shaping up?
Animal fat as biofuel?
Corn faces ethanol challenge (switchgrass)
Iowa faces fuel vs. food dilemma
Soybeans may grow scarce
Poor harvests to push bread prices up
