Humus, Humility, and Humanure
The Latin root for humus, humility, and humanure are all the same, and translates as “earth.”
Food
Food & agriculture – Apr 13
The self-sufficient gourmand (on 1/3 acre)
Urban farming thrives in Cuba
WorldChanging on apiculture
Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America
Biofuels are not sustainable or renewable. Why would we destroy our topsoil, increase global warming, deplete and pollute groundwater, destroy fisheries, and use more energy than what’s gained to make ethanol?
(Detailed analysis)
Food & agriculture – Apr 9
Britain’s green revolution on the home front
Edible City: Part 2
The fruited plain: corn boom-and-bust
Biofuels – Apr 7
The Economist agrees with Castro on ethanol
City on fire: biodiesel in Thailand
What is the real cost of corn ethanol?
Pioneering Welsh town begins the transition to a life without oil
The people of Lampeter, a small community in the middle of rural Wales, gathered together earlier this week to mobilise for a new war effort. They decided to plan their “energy descent”.
Palm biodiesel – Apr 4
Palm oil failing as biofuel
Palm oil is not a failure as a biofuel
The biofuel of the future driving an ecological disaster now
Biofuels – Apr 4
Foreign Affairs: Biofuels could starve the poor
Castro: US to starve world
Monsanto 2Q profit boosted by corn sales
Fertilizer shortage this spring due to ethanol
Food & agriculture – Apr 4
Heinberg: Why peak oil mandates a new farming paradigm
Oil, climate threaten food supply: B.C. report
Newsweek gets organic
What’s happening to the bees
Solutions & sustainability – April 2
ELP plan: Economize, Localize & Produce
Chicks teach sustainable community
Peak Moment TV highlights localization
WorldChanging is making lists
CSIRO Sustainability Network newsletter
Lovins: US can cut oil imports to zero by 2040
Stories for sustainable future (Orlov on sailboats)
Next IPCC climate report due Friday: outlook not good
Poor nations to bear brunt as world warms
Climate report maps out ‘Highway to extinction’
GW could bring hunger, melt Himalayas
Global warming puts 60 nations at risk
Australia faces extreme weather rise
Health woes worldwide
Food & agriculture – March 31
Edible City
Food, climate change and the coming energy crises
Punishment for gluttons?
The limits of a Green Revolution?
