Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Cuba has become the poster child for a transition away from an agricultural economy based on fossil fuel inputs and for a society focused on self-sufficiency. Strangely, it may owe much of its success in this regard to its relative backwardness and its isolation from the world community.
Luxuries of past become necessities
Fattest people on planet
The exhaustion epidemic
Has politics contaminated the food supply?
Vegetarianism: the choice of the ‘more intelligent’ child
Biodevastation, hunger & false carbon credits
Biofuels seen as a luxury China cannot afford
Sun worship – advantages of biomass
South Africa: Biofuels ‘could drive up staple food price’
How many farmers do we need to change the world?
McKibben On reforming our supersized society
Slow clothing
Spending on imported food hits all-time high
Ag crime wave grows in California
Black market in water stolen from farm tanks
Junk food, junk prices
Search for crops that can survive global warming
Experts worry warmer Earth will slash farm yields
Mixed prairie grasses – best source of biofuel
Biofuel skeptic extraordinaire: David Pimentel
Alternative-energy boom roils Asian environments
As fossil fuels become more expensive, so will chemical agriculture. The emerging science of soil ecology shows ways that food can be grown with less energy and pollution.
Michael Klare: the post-abundance era
ASPO Newsletters for Nov and Dec
Mystery Cassandra
Renewable resources: investment hedge against peak oil
Rhizome-based structures need to replace hierarchical ones, Vail argues, in all areas of our society — social, political, economic, educational etc. to entrench the power and sustainability of self-sufficient communities and render them invulnerable to re-expropriation of that power by hierarchies.
Father of modern arboriculture dies
Pfeiffer’s book on industrial agriculture
Livestock causes 1/5 of human-caused GHGs
BC’s first totally local winter restaurant menu
Ethanol skeptic sees painful realities ahead
Husbanding resources
Earthshakers: the top 100 green campaigners of all time
Pastor chosen to lead Christian Coalition steps down in dispute over agenda
Toxic seed becomes hope for the hungry
Julian Darley on “deconstructing dinner”
Farmers show interest in carbon trading
Diet for a hot planet
