Oil prices threaten pushing the economy into a “double-dip recession,” says the International Energy Agency, and why the loss the sunspots won’t lead to a new “little ice age”
“Mining” Groundwater in India Reaches New Lows
Small-scale rainwater harvesting and new crops could fill the gap
Skill up, party down
Transition Towns plan a gentle descent from oil dependence—and have a blast in the process
Resilience links: Waste water, water storage, and cooperatives
Water storage could help during droughts and floods, and ….
Potato power saved the Irish (for a while)
A lesson from the Irish potato famine is that growing a diversity of crops is crucial
Read: “With Pious Regret”
Chapter 1 of Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty
The hanging gardens of Brooklyn
Windowfarms are new, innovative hydroponic microfarms that hang in your window
“Mother Nature also had to worry about pests, nutrients, water and other factors that modern farmers have under control.”
—journalist Brendan Keim, on Wired.com
Read: “Waste” by Tristram Stuart
When your mom said, “Don’t leave food on your plate—kids are starving in China”, she was right
Desertification & Container Gardening
blog by retired professor Willem Van Cotthem
