<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/cf.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="64" /></span>If you want to see the landscape of hell painted prettily on a farmland horizon, watch a field of corn on fire.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/sin_maiz1.thumbnail.png" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="47" /></span>A viable mechanism to reduce fossil fuel CO2 emissions, such as Cap and Share, is a necessary part of any coherent action plan to avoid catastrophic climate change, and end fossil fuel depende

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/tomatoes.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="75" /></span>The international media had a field day headlining a Stanford university dissing significant nutritional benefits of organic food.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/global-land-grab-sm.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="72" /></span>-Land grabbing and food sovereignty in West and Central Africa<br />
-Africa: Land, Water and Resource-Grabbing and Its Impact on Food Security

<p>High temperatures have combined with the worst drought in half a century to wreak havoc on American farms and ranches. Some 80 percent of U.S. farm and pasture land experienced drought.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/jellies-480x256.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="53" /></span>Late last month, the California State Assembly passed new legislation that would assure legal status for small-scale cottage industries that sell baked goods and other "non-potentially h

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/orangeSustainablog.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="67" /></span>-Spinach power gets a big boost<br>-Will EU subsidies be enough to encourage greener farming?<br>-In San Francisco, a secret project bears fruit</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/kanazawa-autumn-paper1.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="56" /></span>Various traditional industries rely on the water resources of the region, from paper, gold leaf manufacturing and silk dyeing, to sake and soy sauce production.

<p>40% of all food produced worldwide, and nearly half of all food produced in the US goes to waste. When you break down the realities of food waste, you see that in the developing world, much of the waste is due to lack of ability to preserve food -- no refrigeration means that sheep you slaughtered is waste if all of it isn't eaten or dried or otherwise preserved immediately.</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/NotreDameDeRumengolThumb.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-_original" width="100" height="67" /></span>The last month has seen exciting U.S. sail-transport developments.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/bib.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="70" height="100" /></span>Historians like to say that we can’t “go back” to the past and that certainly is true in a general sort of way.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/Haider_Figure1.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="67" /></span>This apparent disconnect between the symptoms of a failed state and the remedies suggested by what is seen to constitute its healthy counterpart makes it difficult to imagine a way out of

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/rhode.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="66" /></span>For the past two years gardening has been my great obsession.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/geo_cover.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="67" height="100" /></span>The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one of scarcity. Over the last decade, world grain reserves have fallen by one third.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/Planting-Food-150x150.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="100" /></span>This Spring my farming partners and I found ourselves landless...Last year I wrote an article, "Who Will Feed The People?", discussing the challenges to small-scale agriculture in