Climate, Energy and Sustainability in 2011 – Year in Review
December 1, 2011 4 min. read

The year is certainly not over yet – the annual international UN climate conference is ongoing in South Africa for the next ten days.  Nevertheless, here’s a quick look at what we’ve seen – and what we might expect in 2012. Casting back to my look at 2010 and beyond, I predicted witch hunts from […]

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Glorious Food
June 13, 2011 2 min. read

I wrote last week about some of the ins and outs of food insecurity relative to climate change.  (Forgive me, not incidentally, for not writing so much or so often in recent weeks.  I’ve been finishing up a big writing project and I’ve been pretty focused on that.  It’s done, finally, as of this past […]

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Why Not Meat?
February 10, 2011 3 min. read

I’m a Paul Krugman devotee.  (How can you not be?)  His column from this past Monday, Droughts, Floods and Food, had nothing but good sense:  rapidly rising food prices have mostly to do with bad weather, namely the fires and drought in Russia and Ukraine this past summer and the floods in Queensland this winter.  […]

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NYC Food and Climate Summit
January 5, 2010 3 min. read

I went to this event several weeks ago and came away with a great feeling about where urban agriculture and the global movement for “cooler” approaches to farming and eating are heading.  I’ve written any number of times here about food and agriculture, including this view into the work of one particularly amazing urban farmer. […]

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