Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
It’s becoming increasingly recognized that today’s industrial agriculture will stop being viable once cheap abundant fossil fuel becomes a thing of the past. Less often recognized are adaptations already taking place that will allow more sustainable agricultural systems to take its place – but at a price.
Bertrand Russell on savants, gardeners and happiness
Oxford word of the year: “Locavore”
If it’s fresh and local, is it always greener?
Eating + Ecology = Locavore
Eco-friendly kangaroo farts could help global warming
Growing food when the oil runs out
We are what we eat
Economist on food: Cheap no more
Food prices climbing, with no end in sight
The garden of the future? (Forest gardens)
New film Tableland documents sustainable farming
Food Summit asks: What’ll we do when the oil runs out?
Diesel prices pick farmers’ wallets
Astyk’s law: “Top-down strategies must be concurrent with and redundant to bottom-up strategies.”
Why urban food production may be Australia’s best answer to drought.
Drive for ‘green’ palm oil adds to CO2 fears
Indonesia to wean off oil, but biofuel use limited
Sri Lankan ceramic firms mull firewood as alternative energy source
Riots and hunger feared as demand for grain sends food costs soaring
The world’s ever-increasing grocery bill
Calculating the carbon footprint of wine: my research findings
Experimenting with a global warming garden
Stay married – divorce is bad for environment
Five-tree fee for a Java wedding
Senior transportation a growing concern
Civic agriculture = sane housing
Practical tools to grow an intentional community
Permaculture pathways to a low carbon future
O.U.R. ecovillage
Implications of biofuel production for US water supplies
How Africa’s desert sun can bring Europe power
Micro-wind turbines often increase CO2
A dirty way to fight climate change: Store carbon in the soil
Ending famine by ignoring the experts
Fertiliser at a price – if you can get it
Co-operatives: alternatives to industrial food
I find in my tree sanctuaries what no king or CEO (today’s version of a king) can buy for any amount of money: tranquility.
