Food & agriculture – Aug 4
Forget the farm bill: For now, local politics is the way to effect ag-policy change
As imports of foreign produce increase, California farmers lose out
Ag professor urges ‘sustainable’ solution, not biofuels
Food
Food & agriculture – Aug 2
Rethinking biochar (loma preta)
Meet the new yard [with climate change]: tropical plants, invasive species and drunken trees
Ambitious Maverick Farms promotes local food – and the future of farming
Permaculture and peak oil – Aug 1
David Holmgren on peak oil, energy descent and permaculture (video)
Online permaculture talks: “The Era of Post Carbon Transition”
Biofuels – July 31
David Blume’s Alcohol Can Be A Gas book
LS9 promises ‘renewable petroleum’
Poison plant could help to cure the planet
The ethanol effect
Worrying about food – July 31
UK floods underline urgency of achieving national self-reliance in food crops
Copper thieves cripple farms in California
Copper theft spoils food bank groceries ($484,000 worth)
History prof: Worry about bread, not oil
WSJ: Green Revolution at risk of going bust
Upside down economics
The entire economy stands on the shoulders of agriculture, forestry, and mining (especially the extraction of oil, gas, coal and uranium) and on the utilities that deliver the energy mined in usable form.
Peak oil – July 29
Africa’s power crisis
Buying shotgun shells will put a bigger hole in your wallet
Trinidad & Tobago: Peak oil- expensive food
Building circles of community: “Lone Rangers” cannot survive collapse
ODAC News- 29 July
Biofuels – July 27
The unintended consequences of the ethanol quick fix
Struggles between Big Oil, ethanol industry
A dark side to the ethanol boom?
Food & agriculture – July 27
Huge U.S. farm bill offers more of same for agribusiness
Oregon studies high failure rate of farmer’s markets
CSM on Community Supported Agriculture
Fermenting revolution (beer)
More on CSAs
Biofuels – July 26
Buy feed corn: They’re about to stop making it
One-tenth of Scotland’s farmland earmarked by power firm
Pa. biodiesel producers struggle to stay alive
Science, food, survival – July 26
Ozone hampering plants’ absorption of CO2
Meat production ‘beefs up emissions’
Reviews: Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
WAG YOUR BELL for P.O.
A comprehensive acronym for the things that each of us can do to deal with Peak Oil.
