Food & agriculture – Mar 18
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
Shocking Sugar
Farming in the city
Riot police battle farmers over new economic zones
Staff
Iceberg Dead Ahead Captain
The decline of production in Saudia Arabia over the past year may be like the iceberg that sank the Titanic. There are many similar analogies to the Titanic disaster some 95 years ago.
A hoarders guide to the end of the world
Mention the word “hoarder” in a meeting of organizers and a collective shiver will run down our spines. A hoarding client’s clutter brings us head to head with a vision that is out of balance. Whether a result of unconscious compulsions, chronic shopping, expectations that don’t add up or an inability to reconcile cause with effect, it all comes to bear on the limits of space
An uneasy alliance
The bulk of scientific research remains focused on manipulating and dominating the natural world rather than finding ways to live sustainably in it.
Australia – Delayed Reaction
John Howard’s ideas on climate change have been influenced more by business than science. Marian Wilkinson explains how Australia was dealt out of the greenhouse revolution.
The United States and Africa: eyes on the prize
Three concerns – oil, China and the war on terror – are pushing the United States toward greater involvement in Africa.
Population – March 17
Europeans do it better: learning to live with population decline
World’s population of elderly exploding
World population may reach 9.2 billion by 2050
Warmer, warmer
I don’t think I can be the only person who finds in myself a strong degree of psychological resistance to the whole subject of climate change. I just don’t want to think about it. Part of the problem is one of scale. Global warming is as a subject so much more important than almost anything else that it is difficult to frame or discuss. [Excerpts]
Climate – March 17
Arctic could have iceless summers by 2100
Warmest winter on record
Alberta is Canada’s top GHG polluter
Climate change ended Angkor
Clean coal technology ‘a lost opportunity’
Renewables – March 17
Abu Dhabi: Turning to the sun in the land of oil
Green energy enthusiasts also bet on fossil fuels
Can renewable energies be turned to a source of advantage by developing countries?
Tar sands – March 17
Report: Oil sands costs up 55 percent
Oil versus tar: Here’s where it gets sticky
Fort MacMurray oil
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 16
Profiles in municipal sustainability
Company fuels Second Harvest during Alberta’s fuel crisis
Earth: Home sweet home (animation)
Blogs can top the presses
