Food & agriculture – Feb 18
Britain runs out of pasta as costs soar
“Food miles”- don’t forget land use policies
Soy displaces cattle as main farm activity in Argentina
Biofuels
Food & agriculture – Feb 16
Michael Pollan: The omnivore’s next dilemma
Energy Farms – blogging from the epicenter of relocalization
AI (Agricultural Intelligence)
Obesity – key driver for food localization?
Two reports at odds on biotech crops
Hard times – Feb 15
Heat or eat – an expanding crisis
The growing battle for the right to water
UN says soaring prices leave poor hungry
Cooking gas crisis hitting India’s poor hard
Biofuels and the fertilizer problem
If we transition to cellulosic ethanol — which utilizes whole plants, not just the seeds, as in conventional ethanol — we’ll need even more phosphorus. And demand for this finite resource, located mainly in geopolitically troublesome places, will grower at an even faster clip than the current 2.3 percent compounded annual rate.
Climate – Feb 13
Lake Mead could dry up by 2021
UK report: Climate change could kill thousands
Michael Klare: climate as security issue
GM chief urges dealers to oppose states’ greenhouse gas limits
Stopping deforestration better than biofuels
Tiny nations seek climate help at UN
Food & agriculture – Feb 13
California’s corn production skyrockets
Insect explosion ‘a threat to food crops’
Global demand lifts grain prices, gobbles supplies
Farmers and carbon offsets
Biofuels – Feb 13
A really bad day for biofuels
Robert Rapier: The politics of biofuels
Biofuels leading to rights abuses: report
Dark side of a hot biofuel (palm oil)
Ethanol’s effects bother boaters
Resources undervalued, biofuels overrated
What you may have suspected for years is true: Natural resources are consistently undervalued (Report from a recent conference of systems ecologists on emergy research)
Biofuels – Feb 6
Solution to energy independence is at local level
Record financing for biofuels, not food
Biofuels make little environmental difference
Renewables – Feb 2
A green energy industry takes root in California
Environmental and social justice groups Call for federal agrofuels moratorium
Food & agriculture – Feb 2
Climate ‘could devastate crops’
Australia to investigate fertiliser prices
Mexican farmers protest end of corn-import taxes
Food & agriculture – Feb 1
The hedge fund manager who bought a farm
National Farmers Union: Realism needed on biofuels
Vibing on vertical farms
