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USDA report says climate change affecting crops, livestock
Chicago Tribune -
May 29, 2008
Climate change is increasing the risk of U.S. crop failures, depleting the nation's water resources and contributing to outbreaks of invasive species and insects, the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
Topics:
Global Warming
Environment
Civilization's last chance
LA Times -
May 16, 2008
Even for Americans -- who are constitutionally convinced that there will always be a second act, and a third, and a do-over after that, and, if necessary, a little public repentance and forgiveness...
Topics:
Global Warming
Environment
The biofuel myths
International Herald Tribune -
Jul 11, 2007
The term "biofuels" suggests renewable abundance: clean, green, sustainable assurance about technology and progress.
Topics:
Global Warming
Farming
Environment
Drought Is Sapping the Southeast, and Its Farmers
New York Times -
Jul 3, 2007
Northern Alabama has become acre after acre of shriveled cornstalks, cracked red dirt for miles and days of unrelenting white heat.
Topics:
Global Warming
Farming
Environment
Eat your greens
The Guardian -
Jun 7, 2007
The government is keen to start telling us how different foods affect our carbon footprint. But it's not just about food miles.
Topics:
Global Warming
Organic
Farming
Organic food miles offset benefits, Canadian study (or.. why buy local)
foodnavigator-usa.com -
Jun 6, 2007
A study from the University of Alberta has concluded that the environmental impact of food miles ranked up by organic produce cancels out the benefits of growing it according to organic principals in the first place.
Topics:
Global Warming
Organic
Could organic eat itself?
AP-FoodTechnology.com -
Jun 6, 2007
Just when organic food has begun to make a noticeable dent in the overall food market, air freighting - a measure that solves the segment's biggest current problem - is facing potential prohibition in the UK.
Topics:
Global Warming
Organic
Toward a Green Economy
Inter Press Service -
Jun 1, 2007
Humanity is facing historic and truly unprecedented challenges from climate change and the rapid decline of ecosystems that sustain life.
Topics:
Global Warming
Environment
Relocalization: A Strategic Response to Peak Oil and Climate Change
Post Carbon Institute -
May 30, 2007
Many trends of the last century or more, made possible by cheap and abundant energy sources, will soon be reversed. These include population growth, centralization of political and economic power, vastly increased quantity of global trade, and mass tourism.
Topics:
Global Warming
Buy Local
Hope dries up for Nicaragua's Miskito
The Guardian -
May 28, 2007
Central American indigenous farmers are among first to suffer from climate change but least equipped to adapt.
Topics:
Global Warming
Farming
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