Cultivating a suburban foodshed (audio and video)
Talking directly, and kindly, to believers in the eco life - (profile of "Ask Umbra")
Little Farm in the City(text and video)

"Stuffed & Starved" by Raj Patel - a review
An interview with Bob Waldrop
Cambodians eat rats to beat global food crisis
Why urban farming isn't just for foodies

Eight years ago my husband Richard and I, the eccentric new kids on the block, snuffed out our front and back lawns with sheets of cardboard and turkey mulch and planted edibles. Lately, in my strolls around the ’hood I’ve noticed more than a few shrinking or altogether disappeared lawns, some sporting edible replacements. It appears as though rising food and energy costs have finally hit mainstream and human adaptability may be kicking in.

Plan seeks neighborhood leaders in capital city
Rediscovering bicycles, and her inner kid
New bike commuters hit the classroom, then the road
Pinching pennies like your grandparents

Masanobu Fukuoka, 1913-2008 - Long live 'do-nothing farming'
Australia's gardening icon Peter Cundall going strong at 81
Rich countries once used gunboats to seize food. Now they use trade deals

“We, the undersigned, believe that a healthy food system is necessary to meet the urgent challenges of our time,” begins the final draft of the Declaration for Healthy Food and Agriculture. Initiated by Roots of Change and half a year in the drafting, it will be released August 29 at Slow Food Nation (SFN) at San Francisco’s City Hall.

A hypothesis is presented whereby phosphorus is considered in two broad forms: “easy” which is able to be mined quickly, but already peaked in 1990, and “hard” which has large remaining reserves and is yet to peak, but cannot be mined as quickly. ... Ultimately we must develop a recyclable phosphorus supply if humans are to continue living on this planet.

National Geographic on Our Good Earth: The future rests on the soil beneath our feet
Let them eat rats
Food, fuel and water crises converging
Tackling the global fertilizer crisis (Bangladesh)
TVA fertilizer technology used worldwide -- but few new products since 1970s

Walkable Seattle
NYC's Summer Streets a success!
Tyranny of distance fuels rising grocery prices in Australia
Choking suburbs to stop global warming

Rosie Boycott: People are recognising that food is the great binder
Growing green in Detroit
Ten steps for individuals from Post Carbon
An inside look at an emergency survival kit
Maasai 'can fight climate change'
Extreme carbon negativity: 280 ppm by 2050