Deep thought – Sept 28
Vaclav Havel: Our moral footprint
Sharon Astyk: The water fountain
Global food shock real, says former Australian political leader
The Internet: our last hope for a free press
Food
Waste – Sept 27
From Scotland to the Channel Islands the cry goes up: ‘Banish the plastic bag’
Making sewage water good to drink
Food & agriculture – Sept 26
Rise of the anti-restaurant
Factory farming hard on the planet
Frog deformities linked to farm pollution
Only a handful are lords of the food harvest
Food & agriculture – Sept 22
Book Review: Guerrilla Gardening
Lunch With Alice Waters, food revolutionary
Restricting calories may lead to longevity
The peasant in present day India
NY Times: A chicken on every plot
Amazon farmers grow grain, save the forest
Agriculture in a post-oil economy
Agriculture in the future will be largely a “family affair”: without motorized vehicles, food will have to be produced not far from where it was consumed. But what crops should be grown? How much land would be needed? Where could people be supported by such methods of agriculture?
Biofuels – Sept 20
NY Times: The high costs of ethanol
The myths of biofuels (new video)
OECD report: the high costs of biofuels
Swiss report on biofuels
Food & agriculture – Sept 17
Can’t we all just … be vegans?
Return of GM in UK: climate concerns may reduce backlash
Fuel shortages may hurt corn harvesting
Make or break time for Australian harvest
Biofuels – Sept 16
Toxic jatropha not magic biofuel crop
The biofuel backlash
Farmers tout alfalfa as fuel
Exploring options, spotlight on “Earthwise”
Interview with Lisa McCrory and Carl Russell in rural Vermont who teach a variety of skills for sustainable living, including the use of draft animals in raising organic crops.
Food & agriculture – Sept 15
Taking a class, joining a tribe (Master Gardeners)
Sharon Astyk:
Vegeculture: Further rethinking how we eat
Taste, nutrients decline as size of crops grows
Can China clean up its food by going organic?
Farm runoff feeds dead zone
Is eating local the best choice?
Water – Sept 14
Water crisis squeezes California’s economy
Hydro hogs in Portland
Running out of water in Australia
Climate science – Sept 12
Mediterranean’s rich marine life under threat
FAO warns climate change could be major threat to food security
Britain’s mosquito explosion
