Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Our global food system faces a crisis of unprecedented scope. This crisis, which threatens to imperil the lives of hundreds of millions and possibly billions of human beings, consists of four simultaneously colliding dilemmas, all arising from our relatively recent pattern of dependence on depleting fossil fuels.
From sewage, water for drinking
The (benign) water cops are here
Planetary check-up starts with oceans
Tom Engelhardt: We face worldwide drought with no contingency plan
Perennial crops: The garden that keeps giving
Localise and go organic to avert post-peak famine – Heinberg
Biofuel and diet sow seeds of farm crunch (Malthus revisited)
Down on the farm with your sleeves rolled up
Some plants you should consider growing
Endings aren’t always happy
The freezing point of industrial society
Black Friday: Why this one is especially dark
The world’s unsustainable population
Three’s a crowd
From state-based sovereignty towards bright green governance
World energy to 2050: a half century of decline
Sharon Astyk: Scared? Duh.
Hitting the nail on the head with the hammer…of fear
Film Review- What a Way to Go
The switch has been flipped
Are you on the rebound? (Jevons effect)
Monbiot on The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Fat Man, the Population Bomb and the Green Revolution
Peak oil and famine
White House defends ‘health benefits’ of climate change
Climate change seen hurting poor regions
Rolling Stone on the prophet of climate change: James Lovelock
UN report: Unsustainable development ‘puts humanity at risk’
Should scientists embrace economic growth?
The implications of resource limitations
Can Earth’s plants keep up with us?
Financial monsters
The Archdruid Report‘s exploration of possible societies of the deindustrial future moves from the scarcity industrialism of the near future to the salvage societies further out, when the natural resources that power industrialism have been exhausted but the embodied energy in the material legacies of the industrial world become a major resource.
The farmer’s daughter has spiky black hair, 4-inch heels and rock-star dreams
Urban foraging and guerrilla gardening
Food supply and energy: What is the role of oil price?
