Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
I sense that we are approaching a tipping point, so I decided to re-embed myself within institutions to have more contact with people and resources to help make a transition to whatever we can create to thrive during the changing times.
For many years I have had an impossible dream for which I give credit to both my now deceased friend, Bob Evans, who made a fortune with a chain of restaurants, and to the American Plains buffalo. Both believed fervently that animals could thrive on year-round grazing, come hell, high water or snow, without any soil cultivation for grains at all.
The perfect casserole: just add badger
Supermarket flies fish 5,000 miles from country where millions are starving
The invisible ingredient in every kitchen: heat
Sharon Astyk: Future of the quik ‘n easy meal
Why “the end of cheap food” isn’t automatically a good thing
Does less energy mean more farmers ?
Resisting the globalization of food: the return of the bread riot
Welcome to “peak climate,” “peak food,” “peak water,” “peak electricity,” or as some people are putting it, “peak everything.”
The greasier the city, the fatter its residents
Can Britain feed itself?
The Fife Diet: Local Scottish food
World food stocks dwindling rapidly, UN warns
Food prices soar in America
Converting chicken fat into biodiesel
Trouble brewing (beer hit by biofuels)
Plant cover in Haiti at 2 percent
The price of biofuels
Conventional wisdom holds that modern industrial agriculture is “more advanced” and thus by definition better than the alternatives. From an ecological standpoint, the reverse is true — and understanding the primitive, backward nature of industrial agriculture offers a model that helps make sense of other transitions facing us.
Can the world survive China’s headlong rush to emulate the American way of life?
As China goes, so goes global warming
Eco-city in China gives off aroma of green – money
In China, farming fish in toxic waters
China says it will run short of water by 2030
Rep. Bartlett votes against ethanol mandate
As ethanol takes its first steps, Congress proposes a giant leap
Food and fuel compete for land
MIT: The price of biofuels
US corn boom threatens sea life
Peak soil + peak oil = peak spoils
A teacher friend called recently with a strange message. “I just found out that a lot of people don’t know what tree acorns grow on.”
Michael Pollan: Our decrepit food factories
Worrisome forecast for the world’s crops
Astyk: The price of things: a future agriculture
Newsweek: Food vs. fuel
How much food can I grow around my house?
Future of food in the Kootenays (conference)
