A death in the family
A tragedy, like the dead chickadee in the photo, seems small compared to what is happening in the calamitous world we live in now, but not to me.
Food
Seize the day – Threshold moments and the hope for change
We have only to look at historical events to see that it is perfectly possible, for both good and ill, to radically change circumstances in a host of ways that looked completely impossible not very long before.
Food & agriculture – Feb 13
California’s corn production skyrockets
Insect explosion ‘a threat to food crops’
Global demand lifts grain prices, gobbles supplies
Farmers and carbon offsets
Biofuels – Feb 13
A really bad day for biofuels
Robert Rapier: The politics of biofuels
Biofuels leading to rights abuses: report
Dark side of a hot biofuel (palm oil)
Ethanol’s effects bother boaters
Hard times – Feb 12
Energy crisis hits Tajik press
As Asia food prices bite, analysts warn of worse to come
Rainfall shortages threaten Costa Rica power
Black smoke over China (book reviews)
Food & agriculture – Feb 10
The upside to peak fertilizer
Nitrogen pollution stomps on biodiversity
Astyk: Time for a new Victory Garden movement!
Studies conclude that biofuels are not so green
Hard times – Feb 8
Tajikistan ‘facing catastrophe’
Frozen Tajikistan pleads for energy aid
Pakistan industry warns of economic turmoil due to energy crisis
Botswana power shortage a serious obstruction to growth
Resources undervalued, biofuels overrated
What you may have suspected for years is true: Natural resources are consistently undervalued (Report from a recent conference of systems ecologists on emergy research)
Deep thought – Feb 7
Hooked on growth: our misguided quest for prosperity
Rolf Nordstrom discusses depletion scenarios
Feeding people
The big picture: climate chaos (Jamais Cascio)
The organic apocalypse
Food & agriculture – Feb 7
Fermentation and food: The revolution will not be microwaved
Farming the Amazon with a machete and mulch
Homogeneous horror in agriculture
Bob Waldrop on local food systems
The birth of a farmers’ market
Peak oil – Feb 7
WSJ: Peak-oilers put money where mouths are
BP to ‘put lights out’ on North Sea
Telegraph: Why the price of ‘peak oil’ is famine
David Strahan at World Energy Summit
Analyst Maxwell: PO means 10-year crisis
Desperately seeking energy in Lincoln, Mass.
Biofuels – Feb 6
Solution to energy independence is at local level
Record financing for biofuels, not food
Biofuels make little environmental difference
