Food & agriculture Dec 8
Carbon: The Biochar Solution
Going hungry in the 21st century
Seawater holds key to future food
The hidden cost of our growing taste for meat
Plan for tax on cow gas stinks, US farmers say
Food
Food & agriculture Dec 5
Sainsbury’s Britishness test
Revealed: the cruelty of UK’s pork suppliers
No. Just no.
Food & agriculture Dec 4
A write-up of the 2008 Soil Association conference
‘Super ants’ threaten UK gardens, scientists warn
As More Eat Meat, a Bid to Cut Emissions
Food & agriculture – Dec 3
Unexpected benefits From pasture farming
Qatar looks to grow food in Kenya
Agrofuel proponents hone tactics
Food & agriculture – Dec 1
Sahel Africans Face Hunger Despite Bumper Harvest
food production or distribution…
In a land of plenty, why do they still go hungry?
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 1
Radio show featuring no-impact living, dumpster diving, peak oil, life of Edward Abbey
Bill McKibben: Multiplication saves the day
A suburb for our times: Depression-era village in Australia
NYT: Locally grown produce
Restoring food security and a dying way of life: Getting to know your local farmer
The U.S. financial system is in collapse, and energy costs are likely to come back again next spring and summer with a vengeance that we can’t imagine. This will make the price of food, already off the scale, skyrocket even further. We must all get to know our local farmers, or better yet, become them. In the moment, we have the “luxury” of low energy prices, and it is during this time that we should be making food security our top priority.
Food & agriculture – Nov 27
Edible playgrounds and political vegetables
Getting to know your local farmer
Ben Gisin of Touch the Soil magazine
Biofuels push Ethiopian farmers to food aid
Acid soils in Slovakia tell somber tale
All the little creatures
Worm census in UK
Mussels lose out as carbon dioxide changes ocean
Honey bee crisis threatens English fruit farmers
Heinberg: oceanic zooplankton drop 73 percent
ODAC Newsletter – Nov 27
A weekly digest from a UK perspective.
Biofuels & solar – Nov 26
Could a hyperactive hamster power your house?
Problems Plague U.S. Flex-Fuel Fleet
Fuel from food? The feast is over
Solar towers will harness sunshine of southern Spain
Climate & environment – Nov 26
Heinberg: Top of the Food Chain
Carbon is forever
Acidic seas threaten coral and mussels
