Solutions & sustainability – Feb 25
After the crash, Iceland’s women lead the rescue
Teaching Cuba’s Energy Revolution
The Answer is in the Trees
Food
Peak oil, coal, supplies – Feb 25
Non OPEC-12 Oil Production Peaked in 2004
“A Farm for the Future”… essential viewing
Sovereign wealth eyes move into commodities, oil
Are Reserves of the Largest US Coal Field Overstated by 50%?
Energy Security First (Canada)
United States – Feb 24
Friedman: Start Up the Risk-Takers
E.P.A. Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide
National Guard goes green to conserve energy, cost
White House Dismisses Mileage-Based Tax
First Lady at Agriculture Department
Food & agriculture – Feb 24
Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner
Recession grows interest in seeds, vegetable gardening
Small-Scale Grain Raising
Feds: Less water for California agriculture this year
Fairtrade Week: smallholders farm a route out of poverty
Coping – Feb 23
When consumers cut back: a lesson from Japan
Say what you will, it’s still about the money
One way to cope? Grow your own
Fix-It Nation: in tough times, tailors and cobblers thrive
Amish home and garden show
Creating a cottage garden
The early Puritans left their mark on us in a number of ways, some of which make life a series of joyless tasks. Sometimes I think their devotees must write garden books. The tone of many of the how-to books reeks of rules, admonitions, and dicta. How about a garden that is programmed to give you joy, to take care of you?
Climate – Feb 21
Scientists map CO2 emissions with Google Earth
Climate change to cause dark night of the shoal (fish to migrate)
What does economic “recovery” mean on an extreme weather planet?
Andean glaciers ‘could disappear’: World Bank
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 20
UVic bans plastic utensils, uses bamboo instead
How to Start a Farm with No Land and Little Money
Bantry CSA – the Community Solution to Getting Your Oats?
It Starts at Home
Food & agriculture – Feb 20
UK allotments boom as thousands go to ground in recession
NYT on Urban Composting: A New Can of Worms
Portland, Maine allows backyard chickens
China – Feb 19
China’s growing appetite for U.S.-style meat production
Less is more approach to fertiliser could boost farmers
Parched China to slash water consumption by 60%
Biofuels & biochar – Feb 19
The ‘holy grail’ of biofuels now in sight
Ethanol plants no panacea for local economies, study finds
Biochar for Climate Change Mitigation: Fact or Fiction?
Food & agriculture – Feb 19
Peak oil and food security talk by Patrick Holden of UK Soil Assn
Hamburgers are the Hummers of food in global warming: scientists
How African Farmers are Dealing with Climate Change
U.N. says food production may fall 25 percent by 2050
Massive effort underway to save endangered seeds
Fresh ideas for waste food
