Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Come along on a tour with team-teachers Glenda Berliner and Jeralyn Wilson, as they show us their elementary school garden bearing many fruits. It’s an important part of the curriculum: children make mason bee boxes, grow colonial medicinal plants, learn of other cultures, and put science to work.
The Reality Report interviews David Holmgren. David co-invented permaculture over 30 years ago and has been a practitioner and teacher ever since, both at his home in Australia and as a consultant around world. This second installment covers four “energy descent” scenario groups that correspond to potential variation in the severity of both peak oil and climate change. Scenarios are also viewed as choices, with certain factors, such as social scale and resource availability, influencing the descent path.
Ben Gisin is co-founder and publisher of Touch the Soil magazine, an agricultural magazine promoting resilient agricultural practices. He speaks with Jason Bradford about the crumbling industrial agricultural system and its close relationship with the global economy.
Landscape architect Owen Dell has a vision: transforming suburban neighborhoods into shared “foodsheds” with food-bearing and native plants, and even chickens. Neighbors can start by finding edible plants already growing in their yards, maybe remove fences, plant what works best in each location.
Wendy Siporen coordinates The Rogue Initiative for a Vital Economy (THRIVE), which helps small locally-owned businesses not just to thrive, but be more sustainable as well. A “Food Connection” directory enables local businesses to buy from one another.
World warned of ‘food crunch’ threat
Over 25 millions Kenyans face starvation
World Must Double Food Production by 2050: FAO Chief
Hospitals will take meat off menus in bid to cut carbon
Sainsbury’s to send unsold food to UK biomass plant
The High Price of Clean, Cheap Ethanol
Trees, Grass May Produce Ethanol Without Poisoning Gulf
Gene Logsdon: Andrew Wyeth and the Percheron on the world’s most famous farm
Grow your own: The seeds of change
Foodie Food Storage
Obama Starts ‘Remaking America” By Tackling Banks, Afghanistan
Pile up! KU report makes commute even more depressing
Crop to Cuisine: The Politics of Food
Why Bananas are a Parable For Our Times
‘Peak wood’ gives a history lesson in Abu Dhabi
Peak Web?
MR: The Urban Agriculture of Havana
Ben Gisin of Touch the Soil magazine
An Interview with Albert Bates
Smithsonian: Dig it! The secrets of soil
New book: “Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity”
Madagascar: Land rental deal collapses after backlash against ‘colonialism’
The freedom garden (new movement and online community)
