Shortages – Mar 17
Energy, water demands are on collision course
Concerns over Kenya’s food security
Shortages of energy, food worry Pakistanis
Residents stung by high cost of utilities
NYT: Costs surge for stocking the pantry
Food
Taking steps – Mar 17
Clotheslines rule
Industry scrambles to find a ‘greener’ concrete
Open 28 hours
Sanitation goals slip; nature can help
Food & agriculture – Mar 17
Warning of world phosphate shortage
Heinberg’s garden
Edible landscape likely to become a U.S. paradigm
Healing the farmer, healing the land
If you eat more than one chemically grown watermelon you will get diarrhea, we learned from the organic watermelon farmer. Fourteen such melons had killed an elephant, he added.
Food & agriculture – Mar 13
How to grow your own wheat
So, you want to be a farmer?
Homegrown way to address climate change
Australia’s food bowl lies empty
Pieces of the puzzle
Too much discussion about responding to peak oil has focused on finding a single solution to the complex predicament we face. Start with the recognition that we don’t have any models for a sustainable technic society to work from, and a more flexible (and arguably more successful) strategy comes within reach.
Food & drink – Mar 11
Dmitry Orlov: Grandpa Orlov’s vodka recipe
Gene Logsdon: A new look at ol’ demon alcohol
Sharon Astyk: climate-friendly bulk dry foods
Food & agriculture – Mar 11
Sustainable food (and over-regulation)
UK honey bees ‘wiped out in 10 years’
The Greenhorns: New breed Of American Idol?
UN warns on food price inflation
Food crisis will take hold before climate change, warns chief scientist
Peak oil – Mar 11
Stuart Staniford: Food to 2050
Matt Simmons on Fast Money
Green UK MEP
Caroline Lucas on PO, food and Transition Handbook
The Australia 2020 Summit – climate & PO
Rep. Bartlett Delivers 39th PO talk (video)
Bouncing in the wool sack
The wise men of agribusiness did not predict that pasture farming— raising animals on pasture with little or no grain, would become the trend that it is today. Pasture farming more than anything else allows for a return of small scale agriculture because it is a low-cost way to get started in farming.
Relocalizing Eden
The bioregion defined by the Willamette River watershed in Oregon is one of the most bountiful in the United States. The agricultural picture of the Willamette Valley, however, has been turned inside out in the last 25 years. Nearly everything we eat comes from some place else. (Case study)
The next agriculture
Recent debates around the future of agriculture on the far side of Hubbert’s peak, wrestling with questions of the reversibility of the rise of industrial agriculture, have missed two crucial points. First, systemic change in complex systems rarely follows linear patterns; second, economic trends already in place may well favor the emergence of a viable postpetroleum agriculture.
