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Agriculture Industry’s Oil Addiction Threatens Food Security

July 18, 2009 by Mike Soron

Peak oil is real. It is becoming much more expensive to extract petroleum and the rate at which we do so is dropping. Serious consequences for food production loom.
Lester R. Brown has a solid summary post at Solve Climate:
This prospect of oil production peaking and countries at the same time failing to establish greater energy [...]

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Disobedience, Addiction and Food Choices: New Resilient Digest

February 9, 2009 by Mike Soron

The New Resilient Digest contains links from around the web — news, information, stories and media on food, energy, and economics, and a quick summary of the week gone by.

Stefany Anne Golberg discusses Henry David Thoreau and 19th-century intellectual vegetarianism. Thoreau, not a strict vegetarian, saw the practice as “the destiny of the human [...]

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The forty-year farmland cleanup

February 4, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

Armand and Jeannette Tieulie, a couple of farming north of Edmonton who have been waiting for 40 years for proper cleanup and compensation from salt and hydrocarbon contamination from leaking wells and oil tanks left by poor safety and environmental practices near their site may have to wait another 10 years for proper cleanup. From [...]

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