Thai farmers turn to cattle to raise rice
Overshadowing all else is the rising global cost of oil; for oil dependence has always been the Achilles heel of the Green Revolution.
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Scientists Urge Shift to Non-Food Crops
Farmers of the world must shift quickly to growing plants for industrial uses such as oils and plastics to replace petrochemicals as the climate warms and crude supplies run out, British scientists said on Monday.
Wartime Rationing helped the British get healthier than they had ever been
During the Second World War (1939-1945) the British government introduced food rationing to make sure that everyone received their fair share of the limited food which was available.
How Long Can We Hang On to our Impossible Lifestyle?
in the United States–we have before us an utterly unsustainable process. For every calorie you consume, ten calories of fossil fuel go up in smoke.
U.N. Says Globe Drying Up at Fast Pace
UNITED NATIONS – The world is turning to dust, with lands the size of Rhode Island becoming desert wasteland every year and the problem threatening to send millions of people fleeing to greener countries, the United Nations says.
Peak Oil and Permaculture: David Holmgren on Energy Descent
David Holmgren, co-originator of the permaculture concept and author of ‘Permaculture: Principals and Pathways Beyond Sustainability’, speaks with Adam Fenderson from Energy Bulletin.net about permaculture and its role in an energy constrained world.
Oil and grains soar, CRB nears record
Crude oil prices set a record high Tuesday on fears that top exporter Saudi Arabia was vulnerable to terror attacks while soaring grain prices also pushed commodity price indexes back toward multiyear highs.
US: Rising Energy Costs Straining Farmers
The U.S. Agriculture Department’s chief economist, Keith Collins, said rising energy and fertilizer costs could add $1 billion to U.S. crop production costs.
Report: Regional Footprint 33 Times Too Large for Sustainability
OAKLAND, Calif.– A new analysis of the Bay Area’s ecological impact by Redefining Progress, done in conjunction with the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities, shows that the Bay Area relies on the equivalent of more than 146 million acres to sustain itself. This area is nearly the size of the states of California and Oregon combined.
‘The Oil We Eat’ Following the Food Chain back to Iraq
The journalist’s rule says: follow the money. This rule, however, is not really axiomatic but derivative, in that money, as even our vice president will tell you, is really a way of tracking energy. We’ll follow the energy.
The larder is almost bare
After four consecutive meagre harvests, the result of heat waves, droughts and pestilence,the world’s stockpile of grain is perilously low. Is it a harbinger of ‘gastronomical Armageddon?’
Look forward to a darker world, ‘Global dimming’ may stop the Earth overheating.
It’s official: the world is getting darker. Scientists are now agreed that as cloud cover and particles in the atmosphere increase, the amount of radiation reaching us from the Sun is falling.