Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Organic Agriculture Is Better Than Industrial Agriculture
Food: does diversity matter? (audio)
Iceland can avoid shortages, needs funds-importers
Food crisis billions failing to arrive, warn reports
A food crisis is heading our way
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Carolyn Baker reviews Sharon Astyk’s Depletion And Abundance
“When I realized that everything was going to change, I was at first afraid. Because I thought, if my government or public policy or other choices weren’t going to fix everything, what could I possibly do? What hope was there, if I had to take care of myself, if my community had to take care of itself?”
Farmer in Chief
Record numbers of people are looking for food
Marijuana cartels polluting California
Is global warming really the ‘best thing that has happened to the culinary world in a long time’ as chef Laura Stec suggests? The discovery that our food choices can reduce global warming as effectively as buying a new fuel-efficient vehicle inspires new strategies towards creating a more sustainable world. What we eat does have an impact on our planet and you can eat better tasting, higher-vibe food and find solutions for the global warming diet through Cool Cuisine: Taking the Bite Out of Global Warming. (Excerpts)
A backyard henhouse for only a dozen or so chickens year-round should be commodious, a minimum of around 5 square feet of floor space per hen, which is much more than a commercial poultryman can afford. My henhouse design, based on what I’ve learned so far by building three coops of my own, differs from the standard designs in a few other ways, which you might find interesting to think about when building your own.
Michael Pollan: Farmer in Chief
Heavy metal-eating “superworms” unearthed in U.K.
Uniting around food to save an ailing town
Learning to live with solar panels
Indian tribes see profit in harnessing the wind for power
Biofuels and a dwindling water supply
U.S. city dwellers flock to raising chickens
The war over GM is back. Is the truth any clearer?
Is a food bank answer to the crisis?
Supermarkets urged to reduce choice and meat sales
Peak phosphorus: Quoted reserves vs. production history
Next 20 years will see rapid changes – Ireland’s Sargent
Scottish councils urged to get into peak oil practice
New deal offers an alternative to global fatalism
Prices for 16 basic food items shoot up (farmer’s share down)
Green solution just outside your door
Warming Andes stymies Peruvian potato farmers
Prince Charles targets GM crop giants in fiercest attack yet
World needs to rethink biofuels – U.N. food agency
End use of fossil fuels in 20 years, UK warned
First council since Second World War set up to look at food security
EU climate change cuts: Poland leads revolt over Russia fears
Dirty coal power hit by Euro vote
