Today, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released it’s food price indices for May 2011. It was a mixture of somewhat encouraging news and not so encouraging news. There [ … ]
Tag: economics
The World Food Prices Spike Continues (4th Installment)
The FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN) released their global food price index data today showing what happened in April. Last month there had been a glimmer of [ … ]
“Monoculture” May Not Mean What You Think It Means
In one of my favorite movies, The Princess Bride, the character Inigo Montoya challenges Vizzini about his use of the word inconceivable: “You keep using that word. I do not think it [ … ]
By the Numbers – Data Highlights from World on the Edge
The hundreds of data sets that accompany Lester Brown’s latest book, World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, illustrate the world’s current predicament and give a [ … ]
The Rebound Effect: Did Sisyphus Support Energy Efficiency?
If you’ve increased the insulation in your home, weatherized or replaced leaky doors and windows, and installed energy efficient lighting and appliances, are you now more likely to go out [ … ]
Solar Power Uptake in Australia Boosted by Electricity Price Hikes
Australia’s solar power industry is experiencing a boom in customer demand thanks in part to a significant increase in current electricity prices, and a forecast of more price hikes to [ … ]
Simple Living… with a Sense of Humor: Warren Johnson’s Muddling Toward Frugality
Editor’s note: This review is our contribution to Eco-Libris’ Green Books Campaign 2010. Eco-Libris arranged for a free review copy from Easton Studio Press. We Americans like our simple, direct, [ … ]
The Emerging Politics of Food Scarcity
By Lester R. Brown A dangerous geopolitics of food scarcity is emerging in which individual countries, acting in their narrowly defined self-interest, reinforce the trends causing global food security to [ … ]
Find Out How Rich You Are On Global Rich List
Ever wonder how rich you are? Or more reasonably put, how your income compares to that of everyone else in the world? Just how rich is rich, and how poor [ … ]
Book Review: Life, Money and Illusion
Life, Money and Illuision is not about the magical arts or wizardry, though it does demystify money and Wall Street’s greedy aspirations abetted by the global push for more growth [ … ]
Offshore Wind: The Best Energy Investment America Could Make?
By Stacy Feldman, originally published June 24, 2009, at SolveClimate.com Washington is starting to wake up to something that’s been obvious to marine scientists for years. The winds blowing off [ … ]
A Warming World Could Mean More Destructive Storms
By Lester R. Brown Elevated global temperatures bring a number of threats, including rising seas and more crop-withering heat waves. Higher surface water temperatures in the tropical oceans also provide [ … ]
Bjorn Lomborg on Who the Environmentalists Forgot
When the headlines told us that the global warming debate was over, it seemed like we environmentalists could breathe a collective sigh of relief. The United States elected a cap-and-trade-sympathetic [ … ]