Biofuels – July 20
Should it matter where your biodiesel comes from?
Ethanol fuels global run-up in food prices
Corn biofuel ‘dangerously oversold’
Report pooh-poohs corn biofuels
Food
Barefoot, bearded and in the kitchen: feminism post-peak
I got an email from a reader named Chris who asked me whether all of my emphasis on producing food and meeting our needs at home wasn’t antifeminist and pushing women back into the kitchen and out of the workforce, and thus, out of the public sphere.
Solutions & Sustainability – Jul 18
Blitzing the ‘burbs
Woman content living in 84-sq. ft. dream home
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Jims Mowing to franchise Permaculture
Agrofuels – Towards a reality check in nine key areas
The rush for ‘biofuels’ is already causing serious damage. Far from being sustainable, the spread of what are more accurately called ‘agrofuels’ – liquid fuels produced from biomass grown in large-scale monocultures – is compromising biodiversity and fuelling human rights violations.
Climate science – July 18
Swiss glacier retreats at a rapid clip
Climate change threatens Italy’s Po River delta
Gulf dead zone to be biggest ever
China says climate change drying up major rivers
Dffects of atmospheric weapons on the environment?
Food & agriculture – July 18
Biofuel demand makes fried food expensive in Indonesia
India: Eight more farmers commit suicide
Ice-cream makers frozen out as corn price rises
Why milk costs more than gas
In West China, saving the go-go juice
Along the way to Lai Tan, I wanted to gaze out of bus windows and simply compare the differences between Chinese and western methods of fossil fuel use and human power, but first I had to get to the bus station.
On the precipice: Energy security and economic stability on the edge
I am a Major in the United States Army. …I set out to discover what some of the best minds in the world had to say about what the world might look like 20-plus years from now. Specifically, I intended to examine population growth, food production, water availability, and energy supplies. What I discovered shocked me. (Online report)
Food & agriculture – July 16
Battle between the bottle and the faucet
UN warns it cannot afford to feed the world
Kenyan fury at threat to organic trade
Groceries gobble up budgets
Italians facing pasta price rise
Astyk: Low energy food preservation
Organic farming can feed the world
Organic farming can yield up to three times as much food on individual farms in developing countries, as low-intensive methods on the same land—according to new findings which refute the long-standing claim that organic farming methods cannot produce enough food to feed the global population.
The case for the electric tractor
In our search for ways to reduce the tension between food vs. fuel comes the latest Energy Farm Demonstration Project: The Electric Tractor.
Not only does this appear to be an economically wise investment, but electric tractors are a pleasure to use.
Solutions & sustainability – July 11
Preaching the anti-shopping gospel
Downsize my dish (less food please)
Green chemistry: changing an industry
Maryland Governor challenge on energy saving
