Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Grain Drain /
Wheat price soars as world granaries run low /
India grows a grain crisis /
Zimbabwe: ‘Power Cuts Could Reduce Wheat Yield’ /
Lester Brown: The grain needed to fill an SUV’s tank could feed a person for a year /
Food crisis in Lebanon
Peak oil: keep off the grass /
How the energy crisis will help my diet (agriculture) / Kuwait to clarify its oil reserves within days / Peak oil not piquing the interest of CVRD board in British Columbia
Lester Brown: supermarkets and service stations now competing for grain / How the energy crisis will help my diet / India: organic farming, answer to farmers’ suicides? / Peak oil preview: North Korea & Cuba
Indonesia to spend a massive US$ 22 billion by 2010 to promote biofuels / Lester Brown: supermarkets and service stations now competing for grain / Challenges emerge for wind power (costs up 70%)
Soil Association – Peak Oil Appeal /
Feeding the Deindustrial Future /
Designing Ecological & Caring Futures (Audio) /
Americans Going Green /
G.E.’s Green Gamble /
Vanuatu ranked as happiest place
Fears over health fuel 30% rise in sales of organic food / Deconstructing dinner in Canada /
Rising popularity for organic beer /
Bjorn Lomborg is Environmentalist Baiter Supreme, the one guy with some letters after his name who is wheeled out in the media to represent the scientific face of climate denial.
Tapping the latent power in what’s left around the barnyard / Shell says biofuels from food crops “morally inappropriate” / Malawi: turning the future into charcoal / Malaysia weighs palm oil share for food, energy
Masanobu Fukuoka – natural farming /
Jamie’s School Dinners – 10 Insights for Energy Descent /
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System /
Feel lonely? You’re not alone
Farming must change to aid environment / Finnish EU Presidency wants ‘new generation’ of environmental policy / 12% of bird species to be in peril by 2100 / Buried greenhouse gases may escape: scientists /
Journalist Ross Gelbspan on global warming
Fuel economy tips / Presentations from New Urbanism conference (including Kunstler & Darley) /
Ranchers and farmers find a silver lining in the conservation cloud / Author finds sprawl isn’t the be-all and end-all / USDA ID-tag plan for farm animals has some small-scale farmers unhappy
America’s air-conditioned nightmare /
50 years driving in the wrong direction: the U.S. Interstate Highway System / World weighs in on global warming / Al Gore 3.0 / U.S. emits half of car-caused greenhouse gas / Global warming may not lead to greater crop yields
