Food & agriculture – March 15
Linking regional farmers and buyers in Idaho
An experiment in back yard sustainability
Big Food’s lie about feeding the world
Malaysia: Fast food sector bows to ministry’s ad demands
Food
Scientists need to confront economists about peak oil
Letter published in Nature from co-founder of Beyond Oil South Australia, responding to recent Thats Oil Folks article.
Food and agriculture – Mar 10
Challenges, threats and opportunities for sustainable agriculture, Part II
Food sector vulnerable to emergencies, says study
The Man Who Farms Water
And on This Farm She Found a Future
Biofuels & Latin America – Mar 9
Bush hails biofuels pact in Brazil
Brazil’s ethanol slaves
US looks to Brazil to fuel energy revolution
Cuba-Venezuela: Making biofuels without wasting food
Tortillas spark inflation, drive down Mexico’s peso
Biofuels – March 5
UK Independent: The big green fuel lie
Brazil accused of growing biofuel under conditions like slave labor
Gasification may be key to U.S. ethanol
A moral solution to our energy problem
‘We’ve got to have more corn,’ expert says
Food & agriculture – Mar 5
Challenges, threats, and opportunities for sustainable agriculture
And on This Farm She Found a Future
Has Real Estate Lost Its Sizzle? Not on the Farm
NYC Fast-Food Chains Pull Calorie Info
Malaysia Proposes New Fast Food Rules
Five questions for the 21st Century
“Matthew Simmons, a distinguished petroleum investor who is no liberal Democrat tree-hugger like me, he is one of the Bush family’s close friends. He’s a conservative Republican. He says we have 35 years of recoverable oil left.”
Biofuels – March 3
Ag dept: Ethanol to bump up food prices
Attack of the cereal killers
DOE to fund 6 cellulosic ethanol plants
BioenergyWiki – sustainability standards
CounterPunch: The ethanol scam
The silence of the bees – March 2
Big Gav on the silence of the bees
NYT:
Honeybees vanish, leaving keepers in peril
Bee here, now – victim of industrial agriculture
Honeybees dying at alarming rate
State insect at risk
Deaths of honeybees puzzling
Food & agriculture – March 2
Cambodians make big gains with organic farming
Food of the future, and the future of food
Exploring a free kitchen in Delhi
Appreciation: The Soil and Health by Sir Albert Howard
Food & agriculture – Feb 27
How global warming goes against the grain
Michael Ableman – Fields of Plenty
Land Trusts – Keeping Local Agriculture Alive
Linking Land Use Planning and the Food Environment
Biofuels – Feb 26
How will biofuels affect global hunger?
MIT:
Will cellulosic ethanol take off?
Grain pain harms the biofuel industry
We’ll run out of beer before we run out of oil
Biofuels play major role in energy future
Rising corn prices put squeeze on dairies
Alternative fuels and the selling of snake oil
