Solutions & sustainability – Dec 10
How many farmers do we need to change the world?
McKibben On reforming our supersized society
Slow clothing
Food & Water
Food & agriculture – Dec 9
Spending on imported food hits all-time high
Ag crime wave grows in California
Black market in water stolen from farm tanks
Junk food, junk prices
Search for crops that can survive global warming
Experts worry warmer Earth will slash farm yields
Biofuels – Dec 9
Mixed prairie grasses – best source of biofuel
Biofuel skeptic extraordinaire: David Pimentel
Alternative-energy boom roils Asian environments
Soil food web – opening the lid of the black box
As fossil fuels become more expensive, so will chemical agriculture. The emerging science of soil ecology shows ways that food can be grown with less energy and pollution.
Peak oil – Dec 6
Michael Klare: the post-abundance era
ASPO Newsletters for Nov and Dec
Mystery Cassandra
Renewable resources: investment hedge against peak oil
Jeff Vail’s “A Theory of Power”
Rhizome-based structures need to replace hierarchical ones, Vail argues, in all areas of our society — social, political, economic, educational etc. to entrench the power and sustainability of self-sufficient communities and render them invulnerable to re-expropriation of that power by hierarchies.
Food & agriculture – Dec 1
Father of modern arboriculture dies
Pfeiffer’s book on industrial agriculture
Livestock causes 1/5 of human-caused GHGs
BC’s first totally local winter restaurant menu
Ethanol skeptic sees painful realities ahead
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 28
Husbanding resources
Earthshakers: the top 100 green campaigners of all time
Pastor chosen to lead Christian Coalition steps down in dispute over agenda
Food & agriculture – Nov 27
Toxic seed becomes hope for the hungry
Julian Darley on “deconstructing dinner”
Farmers show interest in carbon trading
Diet for a hot planet
Biofuels – Nov 26
Datagro: Ethanol drives up food commodity prices
Grain-derived ethanol: the Emperor’s new clothes
Cellulosic ethanol reality check
Food & agriculture – Nov 22
Slow Food in Turin – the path toward ethical eating
Orchard thieves – thefts run into $millions
Up to 100 million acres needed for renewable energy in US
Food & agriculture – Nov 20
Ethanol driving up meat prices
L.A. urban farmers plow new fields
A locally harvested menu takes some legwork
Grandma’s Veggies May Have Been More Nutritious
