Posted in collapse, resistance, sane words on Apr 27th, 2008 No Comments »
So says one of the suggestions on a recent post by Sharon Astyk. Good advice.
So don’t buy rice right now. Take a deep breath again, and recognize that you and I will always be able to outbid poor people for rice, and that part of why food storage buying made sense is because my […] Read more »
Posted in devastation, news on Apr 27th, 2008 No Comments »
The Role of Speculators in the Global Food Crisis
By Beat Balzli and Frank Hornig
Biofuels and global warming have been blamed for shortages driving up the price of food, and both trends have played their role. The planet’s grain reserves are almost empty for a number of reasons, including global population growth and greater prosperity in […] Read more »
Posted in news, peak oil, water on Apr 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
A BBC article warning that consumers should prepare for the price of clothing to increase.
“It all comes down to energy,” explains Bradley George, head of commodities and resources at Investec Asset Management. “We are basically short of power in the world right now.”
Hence, it is not only a question of whether land should be used […] Read more »
Posted in books, peak oil on Apr 26th, 2008 No Comments »
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Posted in peak oil, useful media on Apr 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Jim Kunstler talking about the long emergency.
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Posted in books, sane words on Apr 26th, 2008 No Comments »
How will the U.S. have to adapt?
Virtually anything organized on a grand scale is liable to fall into trouble—government, finance, corporate enterprise, agribusiness, schools. Our gigantic metroplex cities will prove to be inconsistent with the energy diet of our future. I think our smaller cities and towns will be reactivated. We are going to be […] Read more »
Posted in beyond organic, sane words on Apr 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Another sense-filled article. Orginally published at Counterpunch. By DE CLARKE and STAN GOFF.
Why do we tolerate it — and the near-totalitarian control exercised over our food supply by a handful of giant agribiz combines? In part we tolerate monopoly and lousy quality in our food economy because the public believes industry propaganda that (in Margaret […] Read more »
Posted in sane words on Apr 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
Another article worthy of a full reprint:
Is the Western consumerist culture that we inflict upon the rest of the world truly the pinnacle of our evolution? If it is, I resign my membership in the human race. Though I don’t fear that I’ll be compelled to tender my resignation any time soon because our so-called […] Read more »
Posted in beyond organic, peak food, saving seeds, selfsufficiency on Apr 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
As the world’s seed supply is increasingly owned by multinational companies, farmers and gardeners are losing control of the seeds available to them. Vegetable varieties that were valued for their superior flavor are being replaced by varieties that can withstand traveling across the country, or across the world, in today’s global food market.The seed bank […] Read more »
Posted in beyond organic, sustainability, useful media on Apr 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
A recent issue of the ecologist has two articles:
10 reasons why organic can feed the world
9. Seed-saving
Seeds are not simply a source of food; they are living testimony to more than 10,000 years of agricultural domestication. Tragically, however, they are a resource that has suffered unprecedented neglect. The UN FAO estimates that 75 per cent […] Read more »
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