Food & agriculture – Oct 24
Economic growth leaves water, food supplies and people in the dust /
Climate change forces farming innovation /
Farming in the age of expensive oil /
Forget oil, look at food prices
Food
Bioneers: the corporate media, storytelling and more
Over 3000 people attended the 17th Annual Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California, Oct. 20-23. The gathering was beamed by satellite to another 10,000 at 18 remote sites from Honolulu to Anchorage to Houston to Massachusetts. According to founder Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers seeks “to bring biological pioneers together to restore the Earth.”
Food & agriculture – Oct 22
Climate change forces farming innovation /
Farming in the age of expensive oil /
Seeking life in the desert, on the desert’s terms
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 21
Seed balls /
UK: win a place on the Life After Oil course /
Becoming native /
David Korten on the Great Turning: from empire to earth community /
Green chimney could save the planet
Climate: Australian drought – Oct 19
Aussies busy battling worst drought ever /
Wheat harvest forecast slashed /
Plan to ship water /
Farmers told to move north ‘where water is’ /
When all the rivers run dry /
Australian farmers driven to suicide by drought
Food & agriculture – Oct 15
Grain stockpiles at lowest for 25 years
Australia: Farming economy in ‘drought crisis’
Kansas: Aquifer crisis for agriculture
The Vegetable-Industrial Complex
The Politics on Our Plates
Organic®
Food & agriculture – Oct 13
How Long Can the World Feed Itself?
Time to become a “locavore”
Locavores in Willits?
Breakfast of Chumps
Green is the New Black in Ethical Britain
Economics: The Sound of Aunt Edna’s Knitting
As today’s economics of imaginary wealth comes apart under the stress of peak oil, talk about a “new economy” misses the point. What’s needed — and can be built, starting with actions on a personal scale — is an old economy, in which money exchanges play a much smaller role.
Water – Oct 10
Water for millions at risk as glaciers melt
Monbiot: The freshwater boom is over
$3 water purifier could save lives
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 29
Billy goat not gruff about his responsibilities
Urban farming: city pickers
A summer spent killing—and eating—Seattle’s small game
A reflection on cities of the future
We will be lucky if we can make the transition from our current circumstances to a future of re-sized, re-scaled cities and a reactivated productive rural landscape outside them, with a hierarchy of hamlets, villages, and towns in between, and some ability to conduct commerce and manufacturing.
Permablitzing the suburbs
A permablitz is a permaculture-inspired backyard makeover where people come together to share knowledge and skills about organic food production in urban gardens while building community and having fun.
