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seed banking 2008-04-23 11:11:29 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:banking
organic versus genetically modified 2008-04-22 12:58:55 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:modified
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peak clothing and peak water 2008-04-26 12:28:54 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:water
the long emergency pt.1 2008-04-26 12:02:29 Jim Kunstler talking about the long emergency.
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James Kunstler interview 2008-04-26 11:59:28 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:interview
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an alternative agriculture is possible - the politics of food is politics 2008-04-26 06:30:08 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:politics
do not start panic buying 2008-04-27 09:46:46 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 [...]
“capitalism is literally consuming itself” 2008-04-27 05:46:43 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:literally
mr. potato heads off food crisis 2008-05-01 18:59:49 Another inspiring article about food and the wonders of hemp.
The latest “crisis” spreading throughout the world, the food crisis, may actually backfire on the giant capitalists reaping great profits from all they have sown without mercy for nearly a century. The US food crisis is in part being experienced because during the past 80 [...]
building raised beds 2008-05-01 18:13:31 Ok, its not specifically about bringing down civilisation, or even news about what our industrial society is doing to the planet. But, the more people who learn how to grow their own food, reducing their reliance on capitalism, the better. We plan to publish and create links to a wide variety of ‘how to’ information [...]
why food is complicated 2008-05-01 12:40:10 Another great article by Sharon Astyk.
I have come to feel that the term “mess” does not adequately describe the complexity of our present food crisis. In fact, the whole thing reminds me of that old Calvin and Hobbes cartoon in which Calvin complains that scientists give things lame names, and that the “big bang” [...] Read more:complicated
one of history’s great atrocities: the corporate theft of the public’s natural right to water 2008-05-04 07:08:36 The current 1.1 billion people worldwide without access to potable water
only opens one of the smaller windows on the injustices and the multiple casualties being wrought by private water-related industries. In fact, many are clueless to the magnitude of the victims — present and projected — of the growing water crisis as well as [...] Read more:corporate
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global famine 2008-05-03 12:09:36 Michel Chossudovsky points out in this article that the present food ‘crisis’ is the result of economic restructuring and investor speculation, exacerbating problems created by climate change, poverty and
other factors causing reduced supplies.
The media has casually misled public opinion on the causes of these price hikes, focusing almost exclusively on issues of costs of production, climate and other factors which result in reduced supply [...]
building a composting toilet 2008-05-04 07:52:07 Very simple version. After each use of the toilet, a handful of straw, ashes, or other compostable material should be dropped in to cover the ‘doings’. When full the bucket should be emptied onto your compost heap, and again covered with other material (kitchen waste, weeds, grass, straw etc). This keeps down smells and flies. [...]
how to make mud cookies 2008-05-09 07:01:15 In Haiti people are eating ‘cookies’ made from mud, vegetable fat and salt, baked in the sun. Many simply cant afford food, and even mud cookies have now increased in price so many cant even afford them - while speculators and investors grow rich from the present world food ‘crisis’. This article from Counterpunch by [...]
independence days challenge 2008-05-13 10:14:00 What are you doing towards making yourself food independent?
I challenge myself and all of you to work on creating food Independence Days this year - that all of us try to do one thing every day to create Food Independence. That means in each day or week, we would try to:
1. Plant something. [...]
what organic homesteading is all about 2008-05-13 09:52:14 An article by Gene Logsdon (originally written in 1973).
I’m sure if I had to cultivate gardens ten hours a day every day for someone else, I’d think of it as work. But the beauty of the organic homestead is that “work” is self-willed, not commanded from on high or dictated by economic necessity. “Work” becomes [...]
ecological seeing: walking in a sacred manner 2008-05-15 09:39:06 Another sane article from Cyrano’s Journal, by Charles Sullivan.
Belonging to a family entails responsibility, just as belonging to a community involves accountability to it. Knowledge about interdependence and connectivity requires that one share that knowledge and act responsibly upon it. It would be considered irresponsible and immoral to exploit one’s own family for private gain. [...] Read more:ecological
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civilization, as we know it, is largely the creation of psychopaths 2008-05-14 08:48:18 BEWARE OF THE PSYCHOPATH MY SON, By Clinton Callahan
I make the effort to share this information because it gives me, at last, a plausible answer to a long-unanswered question: Why, no matter how much intelligent goodwill exists in the world, is there so much war, suffering and injustice? It doesn’t seem to matter what creative [...]
sam suds and the case of PVC: the poison plastic 2008-05-17 21:28:06 PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastic, commonly referred to as vinyl, is one of the most hazardous consumer products ever created. PVC is dangerous to human health and the environment throughout its entire life cycle, at the factory, in our homes, and in the trash. Our bodies are contaminated with poisonous chemicals released during the [...]
The Bio Da Versity Code 2008-05-17 21:17:53 we need to convince humans that they are part of the web of life
Learn more and take action: www.daversitycode.com
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public health and welfare 2008-05-21 08:56:33 An excerpt from Sharon Astyk’s book, Depletion and Abundance:
If we were to ask “Where do we need energy the most?” we would get a very different answer. Perhaps the most bang for our fossil-fueled buck comes in health care. In fact, when anyone suggests moving to a much lower-energy society, the most disturbing and frightening [...]
eco-anger: a worldview under threat 2008-05-21 08:08:09 An Eye-Opening Personal Experience on Eco-Anxiety.
Stage One: Denial
With recent documentaries, widespread news reports, and nearly unanimous scientific consensus on the challenges arising from environmental issues, it has to be harder now to deny their existence or significance. This may account for why there were not too many outright denials and for the edgy tone of [...] Read more:anger
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evolve or die: can we shed our moral primitivism before it’s too late? 2008-05-20 07:45:36 Article by Dr Steve Best.
“As ye sow, so shall ye reap…”
Endless resource wars, globalization, privatization, profits over life, exploitation, raping the Earth, poisoning and irradiating the environment, exponentially criminal levels of unnecessary suffering caused by the concentration of wealth into the hands of a few, Climate Change, alarming rates of species extinction, Peak Oil, a [...] Read more:evolve
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