Chapter 5. Eroding Soils Darkening Our Future Lester R. Brown www.earth-policy.org/books/fpep/fpepch5 Over the next several weeks, we will be releasing Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester R. Brown in installments. Look for a new chapter about every other week. Supporting data, videos, and …
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Lessons from cockroaches could inform robotics
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Lessons from cockroaches could inform robotics Forecast is for more snow in polar regions, less for the rest of us The lifetime journeys of manure-based microbes Stash of stem cells found in a human parasite Has evolution given humans unique brain structures? Vibrant mix of marine …
Against The Grain
Farmland LP expects healthy dividends that are not correlated with oil by relying on the ultimate bio-fuel By Ellie Winninghoff While farmland is a hot alternative vehicle among institutional investors like Harvard University and TIAA-Cref, some wonder how alternative an investment it really is. “[The price of] farmland is traditionally …
Earth Policy Release – World in Serious Trouble on Food Front
Lester R. Brown http://www.earth-policy.org/plan_b_updates/2012/update104 Earth Policy Release Plan B Update July 24, 2012 In the early spring of 2012, U.S. farmers were on their way to planting some 96 million acres in corn, the most in 75 years. A warm early spring got the crop off to a great start. …
US Drought Disaster Will Cause Global Food Insecurity
When National Climate Disasters Go Global: On Drought, Food, And Global Insecurity ThinkProgress.org/Climate : 18 Jul 2012 02:49 PM PDT by Francesco Femia and Caitlin Werrell, via The Center For Climate and Security The national Drought Monitor recently declared [abnormally dry conditions or] a drought for almost 80% of the …
Water Quality Cap-and-Trade Pilot Underway
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded $1 million to an industry-led cap and trade system for … Read more Click here for the Environmental Leader Newsletter…