Planetary thinking – Aug 31
The nexus of water, energy and climate
Dirt isn’t so cheap after all
Humans now use 25% of the Earth’s productivity
Food
Food & agriculture – Aug 31
Milk is the new oil
Biofuels and small farmers
Food demand and climate straining soils
‘Get Local’ campaign aims at its neighbours
Australia:
Goodman warns of a rise in food prices
Biofuels – Aug 29
Kenya: Biofuels likely to boost energy but increase hunger
The looming food crisis
Nothing is simple, not even biofuels
Food & agriculture – Aug 28
The power of produce (health claims)
Farming the concrete jungle
Study links CO2 to demise of grazing lands
Zimbabwe: Give fertilizer sector priority on power
Useful mutants, bred with radiation
Food & agriculture – Aug 27
Mutiny shakes US food aid industry
To eat …. or to drive?
Goodbye beautiful Britain
The agonies of agflation
Food & agriculture – Aug 25
Wheat prices reach record level
Wheat, forever? Perennial wheat crops
World hunger not an ideal spectator sport
Hurricane Dean robs Maya of livelihood: their trees
Deeper than a mud puddle
Story from the point of view of a farmer in an intentional community in a post-Peak Oil world several years from now.
Deep thought – Aug 23
Urgency and global warming: Interview with physicist Martin I. Hoffert
Topsoil loss – causes, effects and implications
Tipping points in the Earth system
Food & agriculture – Aug 23
Global warming to decimate China’s harvests
Chicago wheat gains on speculation U.S. export demand to rise
Uganda farmers use human urine as fertilizers, pesticide
Bullock brothers homestead- 25-years of permaculture
The bounty around us
The complexity of modern life
Failure of complex systems comes about not because the systems fail to accomplish their nominal purpose, but as a result of unintended consequences of the interactions of the component parts.
Peak phosphorus – the bottom line
What is new and controversial in the article is the assertion that we have passed the point of “Peak phosphorus” – the point of maximum production and consumption of phosphorus. This would mean that over time phosphorus will become more difficult to obtain, and more expensive. This would be a major problem for society, since without sufficient supplies of phosphorus we will have difficulty feeding ourselves.
Food & agriculture – Aug 15
Tanzania families dig deeper into pockets to put food on tables
Prices for key foods are rising sharply
Global warming boosts crop disease
