Playing Fair in Love and Climate Change
Today’s’ guest post comes from Mallory McDuff, the author of the soon to be released book Sacred Acts: How Churches …
Keyword: agriculture
Urban Agriculture
Ideas and Designs for the New Food Revolution
You don't have to journey to a rural paradise to find the farm of the future. It's your neighbor's suburban lawn, the roof of your uptown condominium, or the co-op market garden in the vacant lot down the street. Urban Agriculture is a detailed look …
related subjects: Food and Gardening
The Biochar Solution
Carbon Farming and Climate Change
Conventional agriculture destroys our soils, pollutes our water and is a major contributor to climate change. What if our agricultural practices could stabilize, or even reverse these trends?
The Biochar Solution explores the dual function of biochar …
related subjects: Food and Gardening , Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil
A Nation of Farmers
Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil
Once we could fill our grocery carts with cheap and plentiful food, but not anymore. Cheap food has gone the way of cheap oil. Climate change is already reducing crop yields worldwide. The cost of flying in food from far away and shipping it across …
related subjects: Food and Gardening
Alcohol Fuel
Making and Using Ethanol as a Renewable Fuel
Dwindling petroleum supplies and growing environmental concerns are significantly impacting the cost of petro-fuel and its infrastructure. The search for alternative fuel sources has led to ethanol, a gasoline substitute that is already in the …
related subjects: Energy
Eating Fossil Fuels
Oil, Food, and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture
The miracle of the Green Revolution was made possible by cheap fossil fuels to supply crops with artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. Estimates of the net energy balance of agriculture in the US show that ten calories of hydrocarbon …
related subjects: Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil
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