Biofuels – June 2
Will milk become America’s new oil?
As pork prices soar, Chinese put brakes on corn for ethanol
Cargill chief warning on biofuels boom
Food
The peak oil crisis: Preparing for depletion
There are two areas of energy consumption we, as individuals, can do something about: transportation and buildings.
Food & agriculture – May 30
Ban considered on organic labelling of airfreighted food
Not easy to eat local, community learns
Who killed the honeybees?
Strengthening Domestic Fair Trade
Bank of England chews over food prices
Biofuels – May 30
Ancient plant has potential as biofuel (camelina)
Rapier: The mythical ethanol threat
South Africa: Biofuel making staple food more expensive
Mexico: Ethanol plan meets resistance
Ethanol boom may fuel shortage of tequila
Where does your food come from?
Do you know where your fish is from?
Has big business turned organics into ‘yuppy chow’?
British film-makers ask: what is the hidden cost of your £2 latte?
From a Chinese oil refinery to your Twinkie
Digging dollars: make-work, agriculture and empire
If, all of a sudden your work was to disappear from the planet – no one was doing it – how much would anyone really suffer?
Food & agriculture – May 28
Building a strong local food system via the 100 mile diet challenge
Astyk: reduce energy consumption- eat seasonally
BC conference: Changing ecologies of food and agriculture
Germany: Biofuel boom jacks up price of beer
Food & agriculture – May 24
Barbara Kingsolver: Eating locally and debunking the red-blue divide
Kingolver talk (video)
How green is your garden? Not as much as you might think.
Food & agriculture – May 22
Biochar (terra preta) turns a negative positive
British prawns go to China to be shelled
Sky-high corn means hogs get candy
Why food costs more
Tilling our own soil: Preparing a surge capacity for food
The system of getting nearly all our food from industrial agriculture located elsewhere works as long as petrochemicals are cheap. If the world reaches the “peak” of petroleum (and later of natural gas) production, the price of food would most certainly increase If we take this contingency of expensive food seriously, what is to be done?
Biofuels – May 19
Rise of biofuel crops threatens native tribes
Forestry leaders debate biomass potential
Food & agriculture – May 19
Eating organic on a food stamp budget
Bitter-sweet Harvest- a beekeeper’s year
