Dysfunction – May 19
Flying cars
The Surge (in lame excuses)
When cars compete with people for food
Food
Farmer-hunter-gatherer
We’re still sending out the cultural message “we’re different from the old agrarian roots” even though that’s become painfully obvious. The difficulty, of course, is that we may need to be rather more like the old people.
Food & agriculture – May 19
Growing pains for farmers
World’s poor pay price as crop research is cut
California farm exporters face shipping squeeze
Fears over Victoria’s food security
Climate change threatens French truffle
Confusing, arbitrary rules hinder local farmers
Fertilizers – May 18
Perfect storm for fertilizer prices
‘Nitrogen cascade’ – threat to ecosystems
High cost of fertilizer makes livestock manure attractive
Solutions & sustainability – May 18
Clare Short: Birmingham should become a transition city
A family farm in the midst of suburbia
No wonder Iceland has the happiest people on earth (their secret revealed)
Oil, food and agrotherapy
It is a good time for an increasing number of people to return to the multiple benefits and pleasures of growing at least part of their own food by gardening and farming. In addition to satisfying the need to eat and drink, farming can also help deal with depression, passivity, and other forms of psychological suffering. It can help treat both the body and the soul.
Food & agriculture – May 16
Myanmar farmers may miss harvest
‘The Saudi Arabia of fertilizer’
What Michael Pollan hasn’t told you about food
Walden Bello: Manufacturing a food crisis
Food & agriculture – May 15
U.S. using food crisis to boost bio-engineered crops
Indians bristle at U.S. criticism on food prices
Jump in food prices biggest in 18 years
Horses abandoned in West as feed prices rise
More signs of trouble for corn crop
Rodale urges expansion of organic farming
The food system – May 15
New Yorker: Is the world’s food system collapsing?
In search of a better revolution (than the Green Revolution)
Raj Patel’s Starved
Fewer poor people, more volatility in food prices?
Food & agriculture – May 14
Ways of ancient Mexico reviving barren lands
Afghans swap poppies for wheat as prices soar
Farmers can’t cash in on soaring food prices
Patents on ‘climate ready’ altered crops
UK complaint:
Foreigners will no longer pick our fruit and veg
Renewables – May 14
Myanmar biofuel drive deepens food shortage
Boone Pickens ready to bet on wind power
Oregon Inst of Tech to be 100% geothermal
DOE’s John Mizroch – Renewable gigawatts
Food & agriculture – May 13
Chef in NYT: Change we can stomach
Super Spuds roundup
Low cost labor and untaxed fuel cause migrations of frozen fish
Protecting farmland in Montana
Phosphate latest craze for investors
Canada’s role in food supply crisis
Food crisis symptom of dubious liberalisation
