An excellent article from Richard Heingberg – it’s quite long but well worth reading:
The only way to way avert a food crisis resulting from oil and natural gas price hikes and supply disruptions while also reversing agriculture’s contribution to climate change is to proactively and methodically remove fossil fuels from the food system.
Richar Heinberg’s MuseLetter: The Food and Farming Transition | Global Public Media
Scientists have found that the UK and Ireland’s common or garden earthworms are far more diverse than previously thought, a discovery with important consequences for agriculture.
Here’s a great video made by the biologists who made the discovery:
Meat must be rationed to four portions a week, says report on climate change
• Study looks at food impact on greenhouse gases
• Return to old-fashioned cooking habits urged
* Juliette Jowit, The Guardian, Tuesday September 30 2008
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An excellent article by Richard Heinberg
It’s hard to learn much or do much about sustainability without getting your hands dirty.
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Solar panels are one of the least cost-effective ways of combating climate change and will take 100 years to pay back their installation costs, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has warned.
The environment and economy both suffer from the way forestry, a key natural resource, is being developed here, writes Fintan O’Toole
NOW THAT the boom is over, we have to reflect on two questions. What resources do we have? And how can we use them in a way that is both economically and environmentally sustainable?
These are pretty basic questions – but in the euphoria of the last decade, we’ve pretty much ignored them. The madness that has resulted is probably best illustrated by the example of forestry.
Here’s a simple fact: the State is refusing to take EU money for forestry.
What do GM potatoes mean for future blight control?
What does GM potatoes mean for future blight control? – 07/12/2006 – FarmersWeekly.
This article was from 2006. In September 2008 the Farming Today radio program discussed the issue:
The following program also has a bit of info on the BASF potato at the end of the program:
Also here’s a survey by Taegasc on farmer’s attitudes to growing a GM blight resistant spuds:
GM Potato Survey 2007 (pdf file)
Greenpeace have a concern about a marker gene in these potatoes.
Comments and thoughts appreciated on this issue!
The planned project would use solar power to evaporate salt water, generating cool air and pure water thereby allowing food to be grown
A hard commercial logic dictates that the only way to get good fruit today is to grow your own.
A Grá for straw
Here’s a great video from 6 years ago about straw bale building in Ireland.
You can read more about it and find the links for parts 2 and 3 on Rob’s blog:
A Blast from the Past No.2: Natural Building in Ireland in 2002 » Transition Culture.