The unknown unknowns
With each doubling of knowledge, we get a doubling of ignorance.
Food & Water
China – Jan 20
China to get tough on green design
Will 2007 be China’s Year of Gasoline imports?
China starts thinking ‘alternative energy’
US farming disaster: a prediction for China?
Ethanol Q & A
We received so much e-mail about last week’s article on using corn to produce ethanol that I was actually humming the whiskey-drinking Georgia Tech fight song to myself.
Food & agriculture – Jan 17
Monster bunnies For North Korea
Astyk: Agricultural efficiency?
Can organic farming save us from climate change?
Self-sufficiency – Jan 16
Bio-intensive mini-gardens – recipe for survival
Wealth and health from waste and worms
How to build a cold frame
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 15
100-mile diet: local food strategies
Never too old to save the earth
Local living economies
“Who am I?” in a post-petroleum world
U.S.: ethanol – Jan 15
Ethanol debate: Kammen vs Patzek
New gov. envisions Iowa as the energy capital of the world
Ethanol boom to evaporate corn surplus
Corn rockets, triggers trading limit
Pig farmers, ethanol don’t mix
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
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
