Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Only rice, wheat, corn, beans, and other grain crops are productive and durable enough to provide the dietary foundation of calories and protein. Grains made up about the same portion of the ancient Greek diet as they do of ours. We’ve been stuck with grains for 10,000 years, and our dependence won’t be broken any time soon.
Monty Don: gardeners of the world must unite
Incentives for farmers to grow organic in Australia
Advice to teens and parents about peak oil
Sustainable Bellingham – grassroots organizing is key
Gordon Brown urges increased oil supply
Strahan: Brown doesn’t get the oil crisis
UK cuts taxes on oil fields, opens areas to development
National Grid blamed for UK power cuts
Fuel protest: lorry drivers flex their muscles
Rockefellers seek change at Exxon
Rare peek inside our Fort Knox of black gold
Senators question top oil execs (video)
Utah climate report adds more gloom
Midwest’s message: Hands off our lakes
Fuel-price protests spread across Europe
Lorry drivers converge on London in fuel protest
High oil prices will hurt trade
U.S. small business crunched by fuel prices
Australia: Waking from the dream
Fat chance – policy vs personal
Sharon Astyk: Won’t we prioritize energy for agriculture?
World hunger, agribusiness and the food sovereignty alternative
Jamais Cascio: How many Earths? (the real key to sustainability)
Chasing utopia, family imagines no possessions
Symbols can overshadow substance
Get ready to rethink what it means to be green
Peak oil for teenagers (talk)
Australia Pumping Empty: PO film coming
THE progressive crises: Global warming and peak oil
Queensland Sustainability Minister Andrew McNamara
Andy Welti (Minnesota House)
Connecticut State Rep. Terry Backer
Strange bedfellows unite to pressure oil giants
In Colorado, an unlikely alliance against drilling
Norway: Just like building the alaska pipeline – underwater
A leftist critique of Transition Towns – review by Rob Hopkins
Malthus, the false prophet
Are there just too many people in the world?
Innovators are making the Pittsburgh region an eco-showcase of the benefits of going green and bringing new hope to the economically depressed Rust Belt region. (Highly recommended. Excerpts – audio and video available)
