When Will Food Riots Break Out Across the U.S.?

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Loss of topsoil, land degradation and desertification are global phenomena, which are rapidly destroying our ability to feed the world population

Unless comprehensive action is taken globally to stop the deadly trends, food riots will be commonplace throughout the world in the very near future.

Severely degraded land. Photo: Unesco. Image may be subject to copyright.

Related Links:

• Topsoil
• First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
• China suffers great losses from desertification

• Food Crisis
• Fight For Food!
• 2009: The year of steep food price rises

• Desertification: A Most Powerful Mechanism of Collapse
• China’s Topsoil Nightmare Is Real
• Desertification

A Good Move Generally in the Right Direction

Working Toward Low-Energy Communities

Volunteers from Transition Forest Row in East Sussex cut grass and weed around gooseberry bushes in a field loaned to them by a nearby college. (Courtesy of Mike Grenville). Source: Christian Science Monitor.

Transition Movement

Christian Science Monitor published the following report about the “Transition Movement,” which apparently started in England and is becoming popular here in the US.  (www.transitiontowns.org)

“Transition Towns (or districts, or islands) designate places where local groups have organized to embrace the challenge of adapting to a low-oil economy.”  CSM reports. More …

Related Links:

• Intelligent Communities: 286W
• First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities