Food Shortages
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Society
Change… and Hope
Sometimes change asks more of us than we have to give, and we break. Sometimes (hopefully more often than not, but…
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General
House Cows, Golden Eggs, and the True Cost of Cheap Supermarket Food – Part 3 – Updated
In the previous part of this Series we explored how the drive for more and more “golden eggs” in large…
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General
Growing Grains at the Home-Scale Farm
I dream of growing grains, of being so far down the line in establishing a kitchen garden, a vegetable garden,…
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World Food Day? How about World Food Life?
Next Wednesday, October 16, sees the marking of a rather bizarrely-named festival, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)…
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A Computer Geek Starts a Garden, Part I – Background, Design and Initial Implementation
The yard in winter, before work begins… A great many people today are living in fear. The future looks uncertain,…
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A Civilisational Tipping Point
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute In recent years there has been a growing concern over thresholds or tipping…
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Can We Feed Ourselves in a Post Peak Oil World?
At the end of 2007, the UK’s Simon Fairlie released what is essentially an update to figures produced back in…
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Convert Your Eco-Unfriendly Swimming Pool into a Biologically Active and Attractive Fish Farm!
Could converting swimming pools into fish ponds be another way to increase food security as we head out onto peak…
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Permaculture Food Gardening Course – July 2009
Geoff discusses soil structure and biology with students Gardening is increasingly popular now as food and job security are becoming…
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Rich Nations Buying Up Land in Poor Countries at Escalating Rate
As concerns over food security – and maintaining a lavish lifestyle – deepen, people in poor nations are seeing their…
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Monsanto Runs Into Wall. Yes!!
Say NO to Monsanto, GMOs, and the patenting of life The frustration about this company – Monsanto – and others…
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The Oil Intensity of Food
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Today we are an oil-based civilization, one that is totally dependent on a…
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