Food Shortages
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Eating Fossil Fuels
Editor’s Note: The most significant ‘gift’ globalisaton has given to the world is the ‘Green Revolution’, the post-WWII industrialisation of…
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Colony Collapse Disorder – a Moment for Reflection
Preamble: The issue of massive bee die-offs was hot in the mainstream media news last year, but now it seems…
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Food Futures Now – Feeding People & Place Without Fossil Fuels
It’s time to pull the world back from the brink — we can do it! We live in interesting times,…
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Food Miles, or ‘Fair Miles’
When you make your purchases, are you struggling over the decision to ‘shop local’ or ‘support the poor in distant…
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Phosphorus Matters
Part One: Closing the Phosphorus Cycle Phosphate mine on Nauru island. Currently part of it is reforested. Photo: Jon Harald…
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A Better Way of Making a Living for Humanity
We are no more able to find our way forward living as Homo modern as we are living as Homo…
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Global Warming, Hitler and World War II Rationing
Peer pressure, national pride, and legal mandates worked together against the common evil It’s an unusual title, I know –…
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The Food Crisis: “A Perfect Storm” – and How to Turn the Tide
A recently released study, the largest of its kind, examines the root causes of, and solutions for, a food crisis…
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Powering Down – Will We?
Most underestimate the implications… Through our Hollywood-tinted glasses we’re accustomed to happy endings. The instinctive “it won’t happen to me” mentality…
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The Rise and Predictable Fall of Globalized Industrial Agriculture
Today I’d like to introduce you to a (well written and beautifully presented) report, titled – ‘The Rise and Predictable…
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