Food & agriculture – Dec 3
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
Food
United States and Canada – Dec 2
Deal reached on fuel economy standards
Can solving global warming save our economy?
Mr. Harper’s cold comfort for Canadians
Oil Scrooge boosts costs for shipping
Mindful eating crusader to take top US nutrition post
Trash is a choice – Dec 1
We can be garbage free
N.Y. activist preaches deliverance from retail
EB Review: The Humanure Handbook
Food & agriculture – Nov 28
Studies: Is organic better? It depends
Vienna Vegetable Orchestra
Backyard gardens shelter Europe’s orphan seeds
Australian farmer: Wave of costs arriving to a farm near you
Biofuels – Nov 28
WSJ: Ethanol craze cools as doubts multiply
Are we backing the wrong fix for global warming?
Corn ethanol and the Great Dust Bowl
Fuel quest may create food crisis
Food & agriculture – Nov 27
Old McDonald had a farm…and he got arrested
Farmyard stills quench a thirst for local spirits
So what’s so bad about corn?
Sharon Astyk: The pet thing
Where the wild things are
For the past four years, Adam Grubb has been acquainting himself with the medicinal and nutritional qualities of plants that thrive on neglect, often in poor soils, on marginal land. He says his interest in weeds sprang from his work as founding editor of Energy Bulletin.
The lovely, life-saving virtue of laziness
The work ethic, before which our culture bows down in adoration, can result in failure perhaps as often as it does success. I came to that conclusion after many years of trying to follow an ecologically-sustainable lifestyle out on the ramparts of society.
Food & agriculture – Nov 26
Perennial crops: The garden that keeps giving
Localise and go organic to avert post-peak famine – Heinberg
Biofuel and diet sow seeds of farm crunch (Malthus revisited)
Down on the farm with your sleeves rolled up
Some plants you should consider growing
Food & agriculture – Nov 21
Our oil-based food system will run out of gas
A cause to diet for: local Scottish food
How chocolate can save the planet
China inflation up on food costs
Win-win situations? Don’t trust them, but…
Food & agriculture – Nov 19
More will be asked of us: Revisiting 100 million farmers
Forbes: Food vs fuel
Fuel costs give ag a chill
Farmer of the Year candidate doesn’t use muck
Climate a threat to farming and food supply
Africa: Food production to halve by 2020
One man’s fertilizer is another man’s bomb or illegal drug
Suppose I were to tell you that our most widely used nitrogen fertilizer is an extremely dangerous chemical that in its manufacture, transport, and application has killed and injured thousands of people.
