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As global energy availability begins to decline over the next several decades, energy-intensive industrial methods of food production will have to be transitioned to regenerative practices that 1) sponsor their own energy, 2) build soils and 3) produce in abundance.
-Transition Towns project helps kick oil addiction
-Cuban Ambassador visits Cloughjordan
-In a small patch of land, hope reborn for Sudanese refugees
-Community Supported Agriculture thrives around Osceola, Wis.
-Celebrating the abundant growth of the farmers market
-Algae biofuel propels a braves’ new world
-Transition towns
Within the span of a couple generations, we abandoned a durable, finely textured, life-affirming set of living arrangements characterized by self-sufficient family farms intermixed with small towns that provided commerce, services, and culture. Worse yet, we traded that model for a coarse-scaled arrangement wholly dependent on ready access to cheap fossil fuels.
-Hooked: George Monbiot on fishing
-Objectors to wind farms to be bought off
-Oil giants destroy rainforests to make palm oil diesel for motorists
-A New Test for Business and Biofuel
-Surely Some Flora Out There Can Fuel My Car
-Fuels for thought
-Entrepreneurs Wade Into the ‘Dead Zone’
-Offsets and Big Ag: Does the climate bill give away too much to the farm sector?
-US Still Paying Blackwater Millions
-Steinbeck’s Descendants
-Deeply Rooted
-A growing revolution: Urban gardens are changing the landscape
-Reality Pricks Corn Ethanol’s Bubble
Last year the global credit crunch and its knock-on effects precipitated the sharpest oil and gas price declines in over two decades. Despite the recent $100+/ Bbl price implosion and subsequent partial recovery, we have now entered an historic inflection point—call it “practical peak oil”—in the global balance of conventional energy supplies…
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Quite apart from the long-shot chance that the venture could actually succeed, Exxon benefits from being able to brandish an environmental pin on its lapel, and its association with an authentic biofuels rock star.
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Seven Paths to Our Energy Future
Wesley Clark: Ethanol’s field general
Energy Secty Chu’s alternative choice
Can I Clean Your Clock?
World`s largest cement firms slash production emissions by a third
Adventures in Urban Farming
Lettuce From the Garden, With Worms
Experimental Farm Increases Ecosystem Services – Study
