James McCanney: Energy, Food, Water — Challenges and Solutions
01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 07 Health, 12 Water, Earth IntelligenceWayne Jett: Worth A Look – The Farmer’s Footprint
01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 11 Society, Earth IntelligenceJ. C. Cole: Global Food Supply Chains Beginning to Erode, Crisis Looms?
01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 06 Family, 07 Health, 11 Society, Earth Intelligence
As predicted by the Gray Swan reports.
Global Food Supply Chains Beginning to Erode, Crisis Looms?
Phi Beta Iota: The “foodshed” is not just about growing and processing food, but about transport, cleaning, packaging, and so much more. A very fragile chain.
J. C. Cole: Food & Fuel Crisis Looms in the USA
01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 05 Energy, 07 Health, 11 Society, Collective Intelligence, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Officers CallIn one of my first posts on Gray Swans I focused on food sustainability:
JC Cole: American Gray Swans USA 14 Feb 2019
Most Americans mistake “Food Production Volume” with “Food Security”. Obviously they are not the same. In America we have a substantial “Food Production Volume” but we have no “Food Security”. Food Security is “Food Production Volume” plus “Food Accessibility”. As stated earlier, our sophisticated “Just in Time Delivery” system is quite vulnerable. Think of it as a well tuned Swiss Watch. Just one hammer and it stops.
Below I also add our lack of refineries and vulnerability in relation to fuel.
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Robert Steele: Christian Collectivism, Anti-Fragile Localization — A Second American Revolution?
01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 05 Energy, 06 Family, 11 Society, 12 Water, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government
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I've been spending a lot of time thinking about how to resurrect America the Beautiful. My reading on the goodness of America the Beautiful is bracketed on one end by Kevin O'Keefe's The Average American–The Extraordinary Search for the Nation’s Most Ordinary Citizen and most recently by the gloriously uplifting book by James and Deborah Fallows, Our Towns – A 100,000 Mile Journey into the Heart of America by James and Deborah Fallows BONUS 1 Minute Video.
J. C. Cole: America’s Food Chain: Points of Failure
01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, CommerceThe first map of America’s food supply chain is mind-boggling
Most of our food is moved across great distances—and through many different forms of transit—before it reaches our plates.
Map of chock points below the fold.
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