Food & agriculture – Apr 1
Farmers fall prey to rice rustlers as price of staple crop rockets
Hungry crowds spell trouble for world leaders
Tensions rise as world faces short rations
Could high grain prices devastate prairie?
Food
Phosphorus – Apr 1
World’s phosphorus situation scares some scientists
Aldous Huxley on phosphorus depletion and endless growth (1928)
Phosphorus in “Brave New World”
ODAC Newsletter – Mar 28
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Righteous protests or religious fanatics?
Everywhere in the world, grassroots movements are solidifying a response to the impact of globalization, but this trend is going unreported or misinterpreted. The Santi Asoke Buddhist group, a network of eco-villages in Thailand, is misunderstood by the media and even by many Thais themselves.
Reality Report: Low-Energy Food Storage with Sharon Astyk
The Reality Report interviews Sharon Astyk — writer, teacher andsubsistence farmer — about low energy methods for home food preservation and storage. Sharon is author of two books on Peak Oil and Climate Change. Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front is now available, and A Nation of Farmers (And Cooks), co-authored with Aaron Newton, will be available in Spring ’09. (An improved rebroadcast.)
Deep thought – Mar 31
Asking a judge to save the world from black holes and ‘strangelets’
An act of “biopiracy” 130 years ago enriched England and devastated Brazil
The Pentagon’s cyborg insects
Peak Oil Review — March 31st, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Basra
– China
– Food Shortages
– Energy Briefs
Time to start growing your own bread
It is gratifying to know there are still Americans who, instead of wringing their hands at a possible problem headed their way, start figuring what to do about it.
Food & agriculture – Mar 30
Markets nervous: will U.S. plant enough corn?
Jamie Oliver wants Britain on a wartime diet
Holmgren: Back to the backyard
Come on in, the farming’s fine
Food & agriculture – Mar 29
High rice cost creating fears of Asia unrest
India rice export prices up again
Rosie Boycott: Only a radical change of diet can halt looming food crises
Gourmet magazine points the way toward a green and smart farm policy
Food prices rising across the world
Prices climb as fertiliser famine looms
Why Ethanol Production Will Drive World Food Prices Even Higher in 2008
We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before.
Food & agriculture – Mar 26
Sulfuric acid prices explode (due to biofuels, fertilizer demand)
Pig slurry solution to high fertilizer prices
UK fishing industry turning green
