Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
As evidence accumulates foretelling the imminent shock of “petrocollapse,” one central concern of communities – including organized neighborhoods and small towns – should be the safety and continuity of their food supply.
People routinely insure themselves against the unlikely, but most have given neither thought nor preparation to the biggest problem facing most of the world: famine.
Eco-party celebrates art of simple living /
The Un-Coal /
Go green, Miliband tells UK supermarket bosses /
Green Wonders of the World (building) /
Is buying local always best? /
Principled eaters gather at grill
Grain Drain /
Wheat price soars as world granaries run low /
India grows a grain crisis /
Zimbabwe: ‘Power Cuts Could Reduce Wheat Yield’ /
Lester Brown: The grain needed to fill an SUV’s tank could feed a person for a year /
Food crisis in Lebanon
Peak oil: keep off the grass /
How the energy crisis will help my diet (agriculture) / Kuwait to clarify its oil reserves within days / Peak oil not piquing the interest of CVRD board in British Columbia
Lester Brown: supermarkets and service stations now competing for grain / How the energy crisis will help my diet / India: organic farming, answer to farmers’ suicides? / Peak oil preview: North Korea & Cuba
Indonesia to spend a massive US$ 22 billion by 2010 to promote biofuels / Lester Brown: supermarkets and service stations now competing for grain / Challenges emerge for wind power (costs up 70%)
Soil Association – Peak Oil Appeal /
Feeding the Deindustrial Future /
Designing Ecological & Caring Futures (Audio) /
Americans Going Green /
G.E.’s Green Gamble /
Vanuatu ranked as happiest place
Fears over health fuel 30% rise in sales of organic food / Deconstructing dinner in Canada /
Rising popularity for organic beer /
Bjorn Lomborg is Environmentalist Baiter Supreme, the one guy with some letters after his name who is wheeled out in the media to represent the scientific face of climate denial.
Tapping the latent power in what’s left around the barnyard / Shell says biofuels from food crops “morally inappropriate” / Malawi: turning the future into charcoal / Malaysia weighs palm oil share for food, energy
Masanobu Fukuoka – natural farming /
Jamie’s School Dinners – 10 Insights for Energy Descent /
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System /
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