Food supply – Feb 26
Fighting a losing battle, UN admits
China staring at grain imports
Venezuela limits food exports
America’s grain stocks running short
Wheat: the unstable staple
Hog breeding cut – grain cost
Health
Food & agriculture – Feb 16
Michael Pollan: The omnivore’s next dilemma
Energy Farms – blogging from the epicenter of relocalization
AI (Agricultural Intelligence)
Obesity – key driver for food localization?
Two reports at odds on biotech crops
Food & agriculture – Feb 7
Fermentation and food: The revolution will not be microwaved
Farming the Amazon with a machete and mulch
Homogeneous horror in agriculture
Bob Waldrop on local food systems
The birth of a farmers’ market
Dysfunction – Feb 5
Obesity becoming world crisis
The world’s rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
Wilderness under threat as visitors stay indoors
Up from dysfunction – Jan 31
Move it, you just might get younger
California to probe development of ‘green’ chemicals
From buses to blogs, a pathological individualism is poisoning public life
Dysfunction – Jan 22
Immigrants find help in fat-food nation
Fury in UK as fuel poverty soars close to a 10-year record
Plan for radio-controlled thermostats nixed
Some say bulbs threaten environment
Climate – Jan 17
Warming climate accelerated Greenland’s thaw
Mediterranean faces climate change
Minnesota’s peat bogs- a climate ‘wild card’
Australia’s outback could get tougher
Japan temps could rise 5 degrees by 2100
Tropical dengue fever may threaten US
Peak oil – Jan 17
BP says world oil demand to peak
Benchmarks mark our likely advance to PO
Astyk: Making the case for PO and climate change
Kunstler and Kathy McMahon of PeakOilBlues
Personal – Jan 10
Stress of blogging can be a hazard to your health
How to reduce, prevent and cope with stress
Sharon Astyk: On finding my work
Dysfunction – Jan 9
£1,290 car delights Indians, horrifies greens
Thieves target catalytic converters
Are the suburbs a health hazard?
Petrochemicals in beauty aids
Junk mail box
Climate – Jan 4
Melting ice may not explain warming Arctic
Nature and man jointly cook Arctic
Australia: This drought may never break
California feels health hazards
A nomadic life destroyed in Senegal
Medicine at the crossroads of energy and climate change
If medicine would regard peak oil as likely to occur within 12 years, in line with most predictions, then it will choose strategies which automatically address climate change as well. If the health care industry fails to lead, it will suffer the draconian consequences of having ignored the driving forces of the opening decades of the 21st century.
