Lessons from our ancestors about the countryside
For a year five experts ditched theory for practice, running a Welsh farm using 17th Century methods. (What our great- great- great- … grandparents can teach us about saving the world.)
Food
Biofuels – July 10
Fuel rules soak soap makers
Could jatropha be a biofuel panacea?
Brazilian ethanol ‘slaves’ freed in raid on plantation
The case for turning crops into fuel
Food & agriculture – July 10
The new food crusade (U.S. farm bill)
How to stop cows burping
End of cheap-food era bad news for poor
Where have all the bees gone?
Eco-Kosher movement heeds tradition, conscience
Rising sea levels pose threat to rice
The dark side of soy
Pray for rain: stories from the drought bus
Australia is in the seventh year of the worst drought in the country’s history. Farmers and business people, and drought bus workers, tell their stories of drought.
Food & agriculture – July 6
Sharon Astyk interview
California’s Boxer’s push to protect honeybees
McDonald’s goes green- but not all customers are lovin’ it
Preparing for permaculture
Interview with permaculture expert Robyn Francis in New South Wales, Australia, about the evolution of farming, peak oil and hope for the future.
Climate – July 3
EU paper shows options on warming Europe
Livestock to breathe easy (methane)
Warming could increase U.S. death rate
Sad – July 3
For poor families, a burden of too many pets
How did it come to this? (eco-sabotage trials)
The new age of ignorance (about science)
Our place on Earth – July 3
How many people have ever lived on Earth?
Human greed takes lion’s share of solar energy
Empty plates tomorrow
Food & agriculture – July 1
Toward a garden truce in New York City
UK organic food under threat- too much demand
Conservative Hanson: Fuel and food create spiral of rising prices
Call for a moratorium on EU agrofuel incentives
Population & environment – June 30
This planet ain’t big enough for the 6,500,000,000 of us
UN warns urban populations set to double
American Institute of Biological Sciences on population, environment
The carbon cycle: Implications for climate change and Congress (gov’t report)
Biofuels – June 29
BBC: Charity attacks rush for biofuels
Groups unite to halt EU biofuels rush
Audio discussion on BBC
Energy Secretary Bodman announces three new labs, federal funding for biofuels
