food or conservation?

In the New York Times, As Prices Rise, Farmers Spurn Conservation Program:
Thousands of farmers are taking their fields out of the government’s biggest conservation program, which pays them not to cultivate. They are spurning guaranteed annual payments for a chance to cash in on the boom in wheat, soybeans, corn and other crops. Last fall, [...]

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We Feed the World

The 2005 Austrian documentary film We Feed the World has been showing on the Sundance channel in the US recently. (IMDB entry.) It’s incredibly well done.
WE FEED THE WORLD is a film about food and globalisation, fishermen and farmers, long-distance lorry drivers and high-powered corporate executives, the flow of goods and cash flow [...]

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Living Planet Report 2006

Since 2000, the WWF has issued the Living Planet Report every other year. Read about it in this Mongabay news article.
From the forward:
The Living Planet Report 2006 confirms that we are using the planet’s resources faster than they can be renewed – the latest data available (for 2003) indicate that humanity’s Ecological Footprint, our [...]

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biofuels

Emmett Duffy, Professor of Marine Science at the College of William and Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science, at the Natural Patriot has several recent posts on biofuels:

The promise of biofuels: a lot of hot air?
Biofuels and sustainability: the pros weigh in
Amber waves of . . . automotive fuel?

He also points to the collection [...]

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UNEP Year Book 2008

The United Nations Environment Programme’s annual report, UNEP Year Book 2008 (PDF, 62 pg, 7 MB), “documents some of the many insights, events, and issues that have emerged during 2007 and, not surprisingly, it is dominated by the theme of climate change.” (See here for translations and individual sections.)
Excerpt:
If average global temperatures increase 3.4° [...]

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