Transition Town Totnes
Totnes is the UK’s first town exploring issues of how to prepare for peak oil. TTT is a community-led initiative which is working towards the creation of an Energy Descent Action Plan for the town.
Food & Water
Food & agriculture – Sept 25
Spinach, feedlots and knowing the backstory
Don’t cry to them, Argentina
Gateses’ approach to African hunger is bound to fail
Food & agriculture – Sept 19
Local farms, local food
A radical, but old, idea: Local food system for Maine
Organic Farms Make Healthy Plants Make Healthy People
Farmlet.co.nz
A visit to an Apple Orchard
Social Fertilizer: The big growth potential of urban agriculture
Community gardens are primarily hobbies here in Vancouver, but internationally they are known for their ability to feed entire cities.
Food & agriculture – Sept 18
Sustainable agriculture in CSIRO newsletter
African agriculture: seeds of hope
Study finds chemicals in biosolids
How to keep fires down in California scrub- chew it
Biofuels – Sept 17
From wheat to corn
Could sugar cane save the planet?
Addressing Proposition 87 criticisms (California)
Fun with emergency preparedness
My emergency planning strategies starts a journey that ends in the garden.
Agriculture (food & fuel)-Sept 10
Our big fat world
Redesigning crops to harvest fuel
Kew boss: the dangers of biofuels
Can’t see the Future for the Trees
Biofuels contribute to some of the very problems they seek to address. The search for a sustainable energy source has uncovered some surprising options.
Biofuels – Sept 6
New Zealand firm makes bio-diesel from sewage
Fish fat to fuel in Vietnam
Rabobank: Biofuel industry unviable without Govt support
Time to slow down on biofuels?
Palm oil prices to rise
Remember, remember the 5th of September, 2000
How rising fuel prices in the year 2000 sparked the protest of British citizens and brought the entire nation to a halt by stopping the flow of petroleum products for nine days.
Green Consumer choices in the current economy
Green consumer: these two words paired together seem oxymoronic. With a lot of hype surrounding the so-called new green movement, we need to determine how we can use our time and money wisely, instead of impulsively, to make a legitimate difference to the environment, the economy, and to our wallets.
