How Much Did the Green Revolution Matter? or Can We Feed the World Without Industrial Agriculture?
We may have lost as much food than we gained through the green revolution.
Sharon Astyk
Climate – Jan 29
Facing global warming, are people like frogs?
US urges scientists to block out sun
Welcome to the new climate – massive shift in public opinion
Are scientists evolving into climate crusaders?
Dysfunction – Jan 29
Kunstler on Martha Stewart: housing fetish
NYC becoming “the city that never walks”?
Scotland: Energy crisis as power cuts loom
Selling off Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 29
Why some ideas stick and others don’t
Viridian Greens: “We are winning!”
Hand-made vacation
U.S. consumers, companies feeling green
Bush and energy – Jan 29
Bush directive increases sway on regulation
The long road to energy independence
Reporters discuss President’s energy plans
Monbiot: Don’t be fooled by Bush’s defection: his cures are another form of denial
Give me a child until…
How will we ever get a critical mass of awareness and willingness to change and prepare for a post-peak, post-meltdown, relocalized world when we are all indoctrinated from cradle to grave into supporting and being part of industrial growth culture?
Biofuels – Jan 28
Mexico grapples with soaring prices for corn – and tortillas
US corn exports may fall as ethanol use rises
As corn price rises, so could food bills
Biofuel trade disadvantages poor nations
Transport – Jan 28
The electric wheel- breakthrough in car efficiency
The soul of a pedicab chauffeur
Get ready, tram haters: Locals want more
Portland’s classy new tram
10 vanishing wonders – fly to see them?
Geopolitics – Jan 28
Saudi officials seek to temper the price of oil
“Toughness” against Russia on gas – stupid
Russia’s managed democracy
U.S. moves to regain leverage over Iran
Report challenges Blair’s views on Iran
Climate – Jan 28
TOD: Greenland, or why you might care about ice physics
New IPCC report – the sugarcoated version?
Experts split over climate danger to Antarctica
Bush’s climate remarks weighed for policy shift
Food & agriculture – Jan 28
UK Soil Assn: Preparing for a post-peak oil food and farming future (Podcasts)
Soil Assn considers sanctions on air freight
Michael Pollard essay: “Unhappy Meals”
Biofuels – 28 Jan
Brazils president urges US to invest in biofuels in poorer countries
Understanding the corn ethanol EROI divide
US corn exports to fall as ethanol use rises
As corn price rises, so could food bills
Expanded Biofuel Production Expected to Drive Up Food Prices
