The Obamas’ organic veggie garden is getting plenty of goodwill from environmental activists, but will it have any real effect on US food policy?
Organic farming
What the GFC can teach us about our intertwined food system
Just like the financial sector, the food system has dramatically globalised over the past generation, even as it has become increasingly concentrated.
Stuff we like: superbugs and organic farming in India
Attention, not money, is the new currency. “Attention,” write Thomas Mandel and Gerard Van der Leun in their 1996 book Rules of the Net, “is the hard currency of cyberspace.” They’re dead on. As the Net becomes an increasingly strong presence in the overall economy, the flow of attention will not only anticipate the flow of […]
State of the planet
We’ve heard the sceptics. Now let’s act on climate change … Survey finds indifference in Europe and the US … Too big for the planet? … Can organic farming feed the world?
