Food & agriculture – Feb 19
Sugar rush: consumption jumped from 4 to 90 pounds a year during industrialization
Iraq: Now it is lack of food security
Development gobbling up California farmland
The real cost of bottled water
Food & Water
Biofuels – Feb 17
The real problem with corn-based ethanol
For Ethanol, the Future Is Now
British Millers Worried by Biofuel Subsidy
Biofuel demand unsustainable?
Confectioners questions EU biofuel policy
Biofuels – Feb 15
What is the real cost of corn ethanol?
S. Africa: Making sure it’s worth the candle
Ethanol has fish, wildlife officials worried
Jatropha, the Cinderella plant
Biofuels – Feb 14
Ag economist: Ethanol’s growth and implications for grain producers
Brazil sees biofuel demand as unsustainable
Biofuels will make China, India more thirsty
RFA: Bush’s farm bill not adequate for cellulosic
Food & agriculture – Feb 14
Agri-business exposed (Cargill)
Vandana Shiva’s address to UK Soil Association
Penn. group blasts corporate farming
Environment – Feb 14
Mystery Ailment Strikes Honeybees
Dangerous fungus thrives on Canada’s West Coast
The Importance of Water
Deception on Plan Columbia spraying exposed
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 11
In Niger, trees and crops turn back the desert
A call for a green Enlightenment
Portland stares down global warming
Down and dirty: earthen floors
Peak oil – Feb 9
Interview: San Francisco peak oil resolution
Film review ‘A Crude Awakening-the Oil Crash’
Talk to the Soil Association Conference
ASPO newsletter for February
News discussion: Energy Bulletin
Food & agriculture – Feb 7
Vegetarian is the new Prius
Dale Alan Pfeiffer on eating fossil fuels
Deconstructing dinner: Farming in the city
Cloned food items won’t come with warnings
Biofuels – Feb 6
US News & World Rpt: Is ethanol the answer?
Indonesia: Massive biofuel program to go ahead despite concerns
NYT: The price of corn
Kudzu a potential fuel source
Food industry wants balanced biofuel policy
Bus Week: Food vs fuel
The agenda restated
Quit wishing and start doing. The best way to feel hopeful about the future is to get off your ass and demonstrate to yourself that you are a capable, competent individual resolutely able to face new circumstances.
One of Kunstler’s best. -Ed
Food & agriculture – Feb 4
Agrophilia
Vandana Shiva on Food Relocalisation
City Farmer Interview
Fordlandia
Yes – in 10 years we may have no bananas