Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The American economy has reached a dangerous new phase. We are now in the “recovery” period, but what kind of rebound will we have? In No L, Professor James Hamilton (along with Paul Krugman) takes note of some positive news from the Fed.
-China’s ‘carbon intensity’ commitment means nothing
-Let’s Try Cap-and-Trade on Babies
-Illusions on the edge of a precipice
-How to stop doubting and love the climate models
-Baffin Island reveals dramatic scale of Arctic climate change
-The Economic Case for Slashing Carbon Emissions
-The Cold we Caused
Crop To Cuisine goes global with Oktoberfest in Palestine & The 2009 World Food Prize. We also take on Breast Cancer Awareness Month with a report connecting diet and breast cancer. Finally we hear from the CDC about their newly released findings on “state by state” fruit and veggie consumption. All that and more.
We know that fresh water is essential to life. While we can survive for weeks without food, even a few days without water can be a problem. One rule of thumb as to the amount of water needed for drinking is two quarts (1.9 liters) per person per day. If one includes uses other than drinking, obviously more is needed.
-A New Direction on Research at the USDA? The Experts Weigh In
-USDA and EPA Pushing Coal Ash for Growing Crops
-‘We need to pay farmers … to protect nature’
-Economic crisis exposes fragile global food system, new UN report says
-How the Government could easily fix our food chain
-A Harvest of Golf Courses From Vietnam’s Farmland
-Farm subsidy system ‘in a mess’
-French farmers protest over price fall
-Green Fields: Economist’s advice to Big Food: Change or face fate of GM
-Global leaders gather in Iowa for World Food Prize, talks on food, agriculture security
-Bill Gates reveals support for GMO ag
-Gates gives $120 million to help poor nations farm
Developing a sustainable agriculture is a necessary part of creating a sustainable society. The root of the word sustainable is the verb, to sustain, which means to nourish and prolong. In social and environmental contexts we say something is sustainable when we believe it can persist indefinitely without exhausting resources or causing lasting damage.
-Conservationists rip water policy, quit state panel
-Finding Water from Outer Space
-Melting Himalayan ice prompts conflict fear
-How Can Bright Green Cities Thrive Without Capital?
-A Blueprint for Restoring the World’s Oceans to Health
-Nudging Recycling From Less Waste to None
-The Second Wave of Mining
In the 1930s and 1940s, decades after steam engines had made wind power obsolete, Dutch researchers obstinately kept improving the – already very sophisticated – traditional windmill. The results were spectacular, and there is no doubt that today an army of ecogeeks could improve them even further. Would it make sense to revive the industrial windmill and again convert kinetic energy directly into mechanical energy?
In July 2009, UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband unveiled the government’s UK Low Carbon Transition Plan, a bold and powerful statement of intent for a low-carbon economy in the UK…There is, though, a key flaw in the document, which also appears in much of the wider societal thinking about climate change. This flaw is the attempt to address the issue of climate change without also addressing a second, equally important issue: that of resilience.
