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- Climate change is creating toxic crops and poisoning some of world’s poorest people, scientists warn Wed, 20 Mar 19, 4:00amIt’s always worse than we thought. This article from the The UK Independent paints a stark gloomy picture of food crops adapting to Climate Change about one step below the Day of the Triffids. Popular food crops including...
- Pulling the "magic" Maya Nut tree back from near-extinction Mon, 19 Mar 18, 10:57pmA French-Colombian NGO is racing against time to save the Maya Nut tree from near-extinction. A remarkable tree that produces a highly-nutritious fruit, Brosimum alicastrum once grew in abundance from Mexico to Brazil, but...
- Pre-Hispanic Corn Gods Protest Genetically Modified Maize in Mexico City Thu, 19 Jun 14, 1:20amTo meet surging demand for corn and population growth, Mexico currently imports a significant amount of its corn from the United States, and specifically from mega firms like GM-proponent Monsanto...
- Stunning 3D Installation of Pre-Hispanic Corn Gods Protests Genetically Modified Maize in Mexico City Wed, 18 Jun 14, 11:38pmTo meet surging demand for corn and population growth, Mexico currently imports a significant amount of its corn from the United States, and specifically from mega firms like GM-proponent Monsanto...
- Recycled Wood ‘Garden of Forking Paths’ Pavilion Promotes Slow Living in Santiago, Chile Fri, 21 Jun 13, 6:41amLocated on a hill at the highest point of Santiago de Chile's Parque Araucano, the two yellow cubes are surrounded by native trees and wildlife. In order to access them, people have to use a series of wooden paths—a design...
- Do Increasing Temperatures Lower Crop Yields? Thu, 31 Jan 13, 7:01pmGuest Post by Willis Eschenbach I keep reading these claims that we’re all going to starve because of global warming. People say it’s going to be the death of agriculture, that increasing temperatures will cause...
- The MAiZE: Brett Herbst Creates Incredibly Elaborate Corn Mazes Using GPS Technology Wed, 17 Oct 12, 8:26amSpotted over at Wired Design, Brett Herbst might just be the King of Corn. He made his first corn maze in 1996, and since then he’s created over 2,000 spectacularly elaborate labyrinths as the founder of the company...
- Let there be corn! Reality check on the 2012 drought and corn yields in relation to droughts of the past Thu, 26 Jul 12, 11:03pmThere’s a lot of hype out there regarding the drought and its potential effects on crops. Predictions range from increased food prices to dustbowlification”, a term coined by “Joe Romm. A complicit media...
- Bizarre: Farm workers threatened at gunpoint for ‘causing global warming’ by harvesting crops. Sat, 30 Jun 12, 2:44pmEvery time I think I’ve seen the craziest thing yet about global warming mania…along comes something else. From the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific blog, comes this bizarre story from Thailand that shows...
- Congress ends corn ethanol subsidy Wed, 28 Dec 11, 7:02pmInteresting timing, especially when some biomass companies are switching from wood chips to corn, because they couldn’t turn a profit on wood chips...
- The reverse of UN’s disastrous “oil for food” program: Ethanol uses 40% of US Corn Crop Sun, 6 Mar 11, 10:21amGlobal Food Prices Jump To Record Level Because of Higher Corn Prices – or the alternate title: Cornholing the future There’s lot of gloom and doom being pushed, trying to link food prices to climate change by...