Small farmers create jobs. Here’s why
TreeHugger - 3/2/2012.By Sami Grover – Yesterday I referenced the incredible job creating potential of local foods, using it as a starting point to rant against the nonsense accusations of elitism that are often leveled at the locavore foodie crowd. Those musings went off on some tangents, covering everything from anti-Volt distortions to the tax dodging, job killing mischief of the true elite. But that opening observation is worth a post in itself – because investing in local food really does create an awful lot of jobs. |
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Our co-owned future
Yes! - 3/2/2012. By Gar Alperovitz – The explosive force of Occupy Wall Street – and more than a thousand other local efforts—offers hope that a movement committed to long-term change might one day achieve a fundamental transformation of the American political-economic system. Quietly, a different kind of progressive change is emerging, one that involves a transformation in institutional structures and power, a process one could call “evolutionary reconstruction.” |
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Maine gardeners, growers asked to help feed the hungry
Bangor Daily News - 3/2/2012.By Kathryn Olmstead – Maine is the most food-insecure state in New England – ninth in the nation. That means one in five children under the age of 16 in this state lives in a household uncertain of having, or unable to acquire, enough nutritious food for all its members. |
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$5 gas = long, hot, crazy summer
Post Carbon Institute - 3/1/2012. By Richard Heinberg – Here in northern California gasoline is now retailing for $4.20 a gallon. Prices haven’t been this high since mid-2008. Forecasts for $5 per gallon gas in the US this summer are now commonplace. What’s driving prices up? |
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