Peak oil review – Aug 24
A weekly review including:
– Production and prices
– China’s Coal
– Natural Gas in the US
– The UN Food Report
– Briefs
Food
Food & agriculture – Aug 24
-Parents warned to avoid ham in bowel cancer alert
-Paris rooftops swarm with bees as urban honey industry takes off
-Urban agriculture key to alleviating world hunger
-Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food
-The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2009
Water – Aug 24
-Driving new changes in Asian irrigation
-Nile Delta: ‘We are going underwater. The sea will conquer our lands’
-Our Water Supply, Down the Drain
-Cattle, crop losses mount in Texas drought
Peak textiles – Aug 24
-Green grass of steppes falls victim to West’s stampede for cashmere
-Second skin: why wearing nettles is the next big thing
-Green Fashion Isn’t Skin Deep: Eco-Friendly Fashion Can Reduce Your Carbon Emissions
My Pet Goats
This summer I’ve had the opportunity to plant, cultivate and harvest two 30×40-yard gardens on a small, sustainable farm. What I didn’t plan on was falling in love with the goats there and gaining some insight into a spirituality of food.
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 21
-Peak Oil and Tourism
-Let There Be Light!
-Bolivians look to ancient farming
-Ambitious Solar Project to Use Recycled City Wastewater
-Another bold move in Portland
What does the Organic Label Really Mean?
We take a look at recent questions regarding Organic Foods and Organic Regulations. Our guests include organic advocates, industry officials, and former members of federal regulations in organic food & agriculture.
The next “lost generation”? – Aug 19
-Recession Robs Spain’s Youth of Jobs and Hope
-Young, gifted – but jobless
-Tracking the recession: Stimulus helps revive summer youth jobs programs
-Tokyo – Rooftop and underground urban farming lures young Japanese office workers
Organic food debate continues – Aug 18
-Pesticides in your peaches
-The obvious advantage of organic food over conventional
-A debate about soil, organics, and nutrition
Food & agriculture – Aug 18
-Empty car parks to sprout vegetable plots
-The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals
-An ‘agri-intellectual’ talks back
Drought stalks India
The first reports of drought-related suicides have begun filtering in from the district press. Farmers in the eastern coastal state of Andhra Pradesh are taking their own lives – the toll is said to be 20 farmers over the last 40 days. The state is one amongst many which has so far been forsaken by the South-West monsoon in 2009…An official with the state agriculture department has called the conditions the worst in 50 years. But the state government has still not declared Andhra Pradesh as hit by drought. Such declarations have in India become politically charged positions that the state ruling is forced to take, instead of being policy conclusions that can quickly bring relief and rehabilitation.
UK – Aug 14
-Barrister to barista: The rise of part-time Britain
-Ellie and Gordon set a good example: voluntary service trumps compulsion
-Organic producers suffer as green fingered customers go it alone
