Breaking Free From Factory Farms

SUBHEAD: Why foodie farmer, Joe Salatin, believes sustainable farming includes eating meat.By Joel Salatin on 30 March 2011 in The Nation -(http://www.thenation.com/video/159458/joel-salatin-breaking-free-factory-farms)Image above: Aerial photo of feed lot by Pete McBride. From (http://www.petemcbride.com).In this twelfth video in the series “Peak Oil and a Changing Climate” from The Nation and

Start Gardening With a Vengeance

SUBHEAD: More of us should take up the spade, make some compost, and start gardening as if our lives depended on it.By Ellen LaConte on 30 March 2011 in AlterNet - (http://www.alternet.org/food/150428/garden_as_if_your_life_depended_on_it%2C_because_it_does)Image above: Poster circa 1925 with Uncle Sam advocating "Garden to cut food costs!" From (http://gallery.pictopia.com/natf/photo/8612566/).

Permaculture Taking Off in Hawaii

SUBHEAD: Reawakening an appreciation for traditional systems and adding in modern permaculture techniques.By Craig Mackintosh on 28 March 2011 in Peraculture RI -(http://permaculture.org.au/2011/03/28/permaculture-taking-off-in-hawaii)Image above: Setting up a permaculture garden on the Big Island. From (http://permaculturehi.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/

The Local Food Revolution

SUBHEAD: A revolution aimed at rebuilding food security and food sovereignty for all.By Michael Brownlee on 24 March 2011 in Boulder Weekly - (http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-4806-id-like-to-see-a-study-on-the-relative-cost-for-t.html)Image above: Boulder Belt Farm share. From (http://www.localharvest.org/blog/330/entry/boulder_belt_farm_share_inititiative16).Boulder, Colorado -Anyone living

Earth's Scarcest Resource Is Time

SUBHEAD: In the event of a crisis, the US food supply would run out in three days.By Lester Brown on 23 March 2011 in The Nation - (http://www.thenation.com/video/159399/lester-brown-planets-scarcest-resource-time)Image above: Lester Brown in China. From (http://whoami-whoareyou.blogspot.com/2011/01/for-perspective.html).In this eleventh video in the series “Peak Oil and a Changing Climate” from

Radioactive seawater enters ocean

SUBHEAD: Radioactive runoff from damaged nuclear fuel rods leaking back into sea from reactor buildings.By Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada on 22 march 2011 in Bloomberg - (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-22/nuclear-plant-s-fuel-rods-damaged-leaking-into-sea-tokyo-electric-says.html)[Editor's Note: It has become obvious that sea water pumped over damaged radioactive fuel rods are is making

Radiation found in Japanese food

SUBHEAD: Contamination from Japan's stricken nuclear complex had seeped into the food chain.By Shino Yuasa & Eric Talmage on 19 March 2011 for Huffington Post -(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/19/japan-elevated-radiation-_n_837919.html)Image above: Children in Kawamata, Japan, taking preventative doses of potassium iodide on 3/14/11. From (http://wwe.wgbh.org/News/Articles/2011/3/14/

Meltdowns In Progress

SUBHEAD: It's better to be a year early than a day late. So get out there and prepare responsibly.By Chris Martenson on 16 March 2011 in Chris Martenson.com - (http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/alert-nuclear-economic-meltdown-in-progress)Image above: A well stocked root cellar in the basement. From (http://blog.siffordsojournal.com/2008/11/root-cellar-update.html).It is with a heavy heart that

Why Growth Won’t Return - Food

SUBHEAD: Food producers’ ability to meet growing needs is being strained by rising human population.By Richard Heinberg on 10 March 2011 in Post Carbon Instutite -(http://www.postcarbon.org/article/272062-earth-s-limits-why-growth-won-t-return)Image above:Photo of women on food line. From (http://hillary.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/08/24/

Fast Crash?

SUBHEAD: If oil supply declines quickly, how do we deal with it?By Gail Tverberg on 9 March 2011 in Our Finite World - (http://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/03/09/if-oil-supply-declines-quickly-how-do-we-deal-with-it/#more-1595)Image above: Daniel Boone escorting settlers through the Cumberland Gap by George Caleb Bingham 1851-52. From (http://woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com/2010/01/

Eco-Farming Feeds the World

SUBHEAD: "Agroecology seeks to improve the sustainability of agroecosystems by mimicking nature instead of industry".By Paula Crossfield on 9 March 2011 in Huffington Post -(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paula-crossfield/un-ecofarming-feeds-the-world_b_833340.html)Image above: Organic fruit at Kauai farmer's market. From (http://theessenceofblogging.blogspot.com/2010/12/

Small scale farms are sustainable

SUBHEAD: UN study finds organic outperform conventional farms where the hungry live, especially in unfavorable environments.By Matthew McDermot on 8 March 2011 for Treehugger - (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/03/small-scale-sustainable-agriculture-double-developing-nations-food-10-years.php)Image above: Harvesting organic vegetables on small Indian farm. From (https://picasaweb.google.com/

Wa`a Moloka`i

SUBHEAD: The Permaculture Research Institute will conduct courses on Molokai to achieve food security through restoration of ahupuaa systems.By Nichole Ross on 9 March 2011 in Permaculture RI - (http://permaculture.org.au/2011/03/09/waa-molokai-island-sized-food-security-through-a-21st-century-living-canoe)Image above: Partial ahupuaa map of Molokai by Juan Wilson for WesPac. From (https://

The Truth About GMOs

SOURCE: Kenneth Taylor (taylork021@Hawaii.rr.com)SUBHEAD: GMO Lie #1 - Developing countries want and need GM crops.By Staff on 5 March 2011 for GMWatch - (http://www.gmwatch.org)Image above: Young adults demonstrate against Monsanto BT Brinjal (eggplant) in India in 2008. From (http://www.greenpeace.org/india/en/news/youth-outrage-at-geac-meeting/).The last 12 months have seen a number of

Why Growth Won’t Return - Water

SUBHEAD: Users of water, and uses of water, compete for access to dwindling supplies.By Richard Heinberg on 4 March 2011 in Post Carbon Institute - (http://www.postcarbon.org/article/269759-earth-s-limits-why-growth-won-t-return)Image above: water jugs are lined up for 6 hour wait at pump in Abu Shouk camp in Darfur. From (http://postconflict.unep.ch/sudanreport/sudan_website/index_photos_2.php?

Is Peak Population Almost Here?

SUBHEAD: The convergence of climate change and Peak Oil has enormous implications for population growth.By Paul Chefurka on 22 February 2011 in Limits to Growth - (http://paulchefurka.ca/Peak%20Population.html)Image above: 'The Waiting Room" by George Tooker, 1959. From (http://weimarart.blogspot.com/2010/11/george-tooker.html).After 40 years of beating the drum of overpopulation, I have

GMO danger to livestock

SOURCE: Ken Taylor (taylork021@Hawaii.rr.com)SUBHEAD: Alert! Pathogen new to science found in Roundup Ready GM Crops causing spontaneous abortions in livestock.By Mae-Wan Ho on 21 February 2011 for Inst. for Science in Society - (http://www.i-sis.org.uk/newPathogenInRoundupReadyGMCrops.php)Image above: British white beef cow and calf "suitable" for feeding either on grass or in GMO feedlot. From

One Harvest From Chaos

SUBHEAD: If the world has a poor harvest this year, food prices will rise to previously unimaginable levels.By Lester R. Brown on 15 February 2011 in Earth Policy Institute - (http://www.earth-policy.org/plan_b_updates/2011/update91)Image above: A bad harvest in Malawi, Africa, 2005. From (http://news.webshots.com/photo/1373664085070223871LxsgjN).In early January, the U.N. Food and Agriculture

Climate Change Is Priority #1

SUBHEAD: The carbon in our atmosphere threatens global food production and may render the Earth uninhabitable.By Bill McKibben on 16 February 2011 in The Nation -(http://www.thenation.com/video/158009/bill-mckibben-why-climate-change-most-urgent-challenge-we-face)Image above: Detail of painting "Mother Earth" by Jeness Cortez Perlmutter. From (http://www.americanmeditation.org/mother_earth.htm).

Overcoming Systems Stupidity

SUBHEAD: Systems thinking would make it impossible to continue pretending that Americans can go on living their current lifestyles much longer.By John Michael Greer on 2 February 2011 in The Archdruid Report - (http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2011/02/overcoming-systems-stupidity.html)Image above: Night traffic in Las Vegas, Nevada. From (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pbo31/2191506873/).