Peak textiles – Nov 2
-I’m Too Sexy for This Footprint: Eco-Designers Take on Fashion’s Carbon Footprint
-French make cars from flax
-Farmers Arrested Planting Hemp On DEA Headquarters Lawn (Video)
Food
Climate & environment – Oct 30
-Rainforest treaty ‘fatally flawed’
-Fewer Americans View Global Warming as a Problem
-Government launches map to highlight global warming threat
-Arctic Sediments Show That 20th Century Warming Is Unlike Natural Variation
-Betting the Farm
-UN chief will pressure senators on climate bill
Autumn, apples, and the harvest – Oct 29
-How to celebrate British apples
-Putting Up Produce: Yes, You Can
-From farm to table, a link to the past
Urban ag roundup – Oct 30
-Farmers Markets Enjoy Popularity, Face Challenges
-Hoop Dreams
-Farmers’ markets for seed savers
-Food Advocates Envision Rooftop Gardens and Vertical Farms
-Will Allen and the Urban Farming Revolution
How we gonna feed the world? – Oct 30
-UK urged to lead on future food
-World must use GM crops, says UK science academy
-Feed the world
-Can Biotech Food Cure World Hunger?
-Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 29
-Gardener: Urban pioneer Greensgrow Farm leads by example
-Quick and Not So Dirty: No-Sweat Composters
-How High Speed Rail Can Spread Across the U.S.
-“Agriburbia” sprouts on Colorado’s Front Range
Maybe Farming Isn’t Supposed To Make Money
Talk about heresy. What if food production should not be part of either a capitalistic or a socialistic economy. The first commandment of agriculture states that you must put back into the soil the fertility you take out of it. That being so, the only real profit from food production is how good the food tastes and how well it sustains health and well-being.
Meeting Energy Decline Part-Way – Potatoes?
Before 1999 I had never grown a thing in my life except for chia-pets. I then bought a house in North Carolina which had an existing smallish garden of cherry tomatoes, spinach and blueberries, which over the next 4 years, I turned into a 360 square foot garden with numerous geometric shaped raised beds. This introduction to gardening was more of an art form to me – I didn’t care about the end result so much. Fast forward 10 years and I have a larger, more serious garden…
The recession is dead … long live the recession!
The world’s first peak-oil recession has come to a close, according to third-quarter numbers invented by the federal government. Apparently dumping trillions of dollars onto big banks, insurance companies, and automobile manufacturers interrupted the plummeting descent of American Empire. The stock markets skyrocketed expectedly. Predictably, so did the commodities markets.
The great biofuels debate – Oct 27
-Biofuel Displacing Food Crops May Have Bigger Carbon Impact Than Thought
-Biofuels rather than electric cars to meet renewables target
-Tanzania Suspends Biofuels Investments
-Who says it’s green to burn woodchips?
-Carbon advantage of biofuels may be overstated
Midwest farmer speaks on rural crisis, financial collapse
“We need to break up the big banks. We need banks that understand good farming practices, soil stewardship … and look at the long-term picture for the good of the environment and not just short-term profits.”
Deconstructing Dinner: Sustainable Agriculture at Fleming College/The Local Grain Revolution XI
Deconstructing Dinner is excited to share with our listeners an amazing new agriculture program for new farmers being offered at Fleming College in Lindsay, Ontario…The Sustainable Agriculture program appears like an ideal way for any unexperienced and interested new farmers to be introduced to many of the critical pieces necessary to launch a profitable and sustainable farm business…Between October 15-18, 2009, a fleet of 11 sailboats made their way from the city of Nelson to the Creston Valley of British Columbia to once again pick up a cargo of locally grown grains and transport it back to Nelson.
