Japan’s ordeal upsets and confronts onlookers because of the way tragedies unfolding from the natural disaster of an earthquake and tsunami touched off the unraveling of a more ominous human mistake – construction of a nuclear power plant in a known earthquake zone. Other disasters of recent years – such as tsunamis in Indonesia and Thailand, hurricanes in New Orleans,…
Month: March 2011
The Pillars of Cheap Food are Cracking
The worldwide price level of food is taking a great leap upward for the second time in less than five years. My bet is that this food price hike will match a rise in oil prices for wrenching impact on geopolitics, especially as the two are intimately connected. Food cannot be fertilized and shipped without imports of cheap fossil fuels,…
Wayne Roberts at Alberta Pathways 2 Sustainability Conference
Wayne’s spoke in Red Deer, Alberta, at their exciting Pathways2Sustainability conference; a reporter’s preview of the talk is available here: https://permaculturebc.com/Wayne-Roberts-Food-Security-Organic
The First and Most Important Thing to Know About Food
Check out my lead-in to a special issue of Alternatives magazine on food; I give away the first and most important thing to know about food. Read More…