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The coming famine: risks and solutions for global food security
Book Details - Science Alert
http://www.sciencealert.com.au/features/20101804-20862.html
Tags: [Global food crisis] [Peak Oil] [Climate change]

Walk Against Warming
Event Details - Walk Against Warming
http://www.walkagainstwarming.org/
Tags: [Climate change] [Activism]

3 Steps Toward a Politics of Global Warming
Article - Yes!
http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/3-steps-toward-a-politics-of-global-warming?utm_source=wkly20100806&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mrMcKibben
Tags: [Climate change]

How Organic Agriculture Can Feed the World & Address Climate Change
Article - Organic Consumers Association
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_15328.cfm
Tags: [Sustainable Agriculture] [Organic Farming] [Climate change]

The New Economics: A bigger picture
Article - nef: economics as if poeple and the planet mattered
http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/new-economics
Tags: [Economic Benefits] [Climate change] [Global food crisis]

Climate Change & the Food System
Audio / Video - Why: Finding Answers for Hunger and Poverty
http://www.whyhunger.org/programs/fslc/topics/climate-change-a-the-food-system/introduction.html
Tags: [Climate change] [Global food crisis]

Hope in a changing climate
Audio / Video - Environmental Education Media Project
http://hopeinachangingclimate.org/watch-the-film/index.html
Tags: [Climate change] [Activism] [Damaged ecosystems] [Community Initiatives] [Soil Health]

Raj Patel & Bill McKibben in conversation
Event Details - FaceBook
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123925380955873
Tags: [Climate change] [Sustainable Agriculture]

The Cochabamba Protocol: People’s Agreement on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
Article - Climate and Capitalism
http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=2255
Tags: [Climate change] [Democracy]

Mother Earth Has a FeverShould geoengineering tests be governed by the principles of medical ethics?
Article - Slate
http://www.slate.com/id/2250462
Tags: [Geoengineering] [Climate change]

Bolivia - People's Conference on Climate Change
Event Details - The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/21/bolivias-peoples-conferen_n_546310.html
Tags: [Climate change]

Feeding our coal addiction: WA’s energy future at the crossroad
Event Details - Conservation Western Australia
http://www.madge.org.au/Docs/Flyer-Environment-Matters-April-current.pdf
Tags: [Western Australia] [Climate change] [Energy saving]

CarrotMob
Website - CarrotMob
http://carrotmob.org/
Tags: [Activism] [Ethical consuming] [Climate change]

Australia's Climate Action Summit 2010
Event Details - Australia's Climate Action Summit 2010
http://www.climatesummit.org.au/
Tags: [Climate change] [Activism]

Michael Pollan on Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual
Audio / Video - Democracy Now
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/8/michael_pollan_on_food_rules_an
Tags: [Social Justice/Inequality] [Agribusiness] [Cover-ups] [Climate change] [Local Food]

SA's fruit bowl losing battle
Article - Adelaide Now
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,26413854-5006301,00.html.
Tags: [Climate change] [Drought]

About the Green New Deal
Event Details - Green New Deal
http://greeninstitute.org.au/gnd/
Tags: [Democracy] [Economic Benefits] [Climate change] [Community Initiatives]

No Impact Man
Audio / Video - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fITT6rVPds
Tags: [Activism] [Climate change] [Ethical consuming] [Junk Food]

Escape from Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream Trailer
Audio / Video - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2y9BbNjLAY
Tags: [Peak Oil] [Climate change]

Dirt! The Movie
Audio / Video - Dirt! The Movie
http://dirtthemovie.org/
Tags: [Soil Health] [Soil Carbon] [Climate change] [Global food crisis] [Water]

SicForests
Website - SicForests
http://www.sicforests.com.au/sicforests/Home.html
Tags: [Deforestation] [Climate change] [Extinction]

ExxonMobil continuing to fund climate sceptic groups, records show
Article - The Guardian UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/01/exxon-mobil-climate-change-sceptics-funding
Tags: [Climate change]

Craig Venter: Programming algae to pump out oil
Article - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327186.000-craig-venter-programming-algae-to-pump-out-oil.html
Tags: [Research] [Climate change]

The Big Melt Tour
Event Details - The Big Melt Tour
http://www.thebigmelt.org/
Tags: [Climate change] [Indian farmers]

Biodiversity for Climate protection: nature as climate solution, not casualty
Event Details - Bio Diversity Summit 2009
http://www.biodiversitysummit.org.au/
Tags: [Biodiversity] [Climate change]

Carbon Farmers Of Australia Australian: Soil Carbon Grower Register
Website - Carbon Farmers Of Australia Australian: Soil Carbon Grower Register
http://www.carbonfarmersofaustralia.com.au/Carbon%20Farmers%20Of%20Australia/HOME.html
Tags: [Soil Carbon] [Climate change]

Change in farming can feed world - report
Article - The UK Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/16/food.biofuels
Tags: [Biofuels] [Global food crisis] [Sustainable Agriculture] [Famine] [Biotechnology] [Climate change]

Exxon's Climate-Victim Candles
Audio / Video - The Yes Men
http://www.theyesmen.org/hijinks/vivoleum
Tags: [Activism] [Climate change]

Organic shift would drive healthier diets: report
Article - Food Navigator
http://www.foodnavigator.com/content/view/print/251605
Tags: [Economic Benefits] [Sustainable Agriculture] [Organic Farming] [Healthy eating] [Climate change] [Herbicides and Pesticides] [Fertilizers]

Meat the Truth
Audio / Video - Google Video
http://video.google.it/videoplay?docid=2756277227675684050&ei=ZLwNSvycMZug2ALtoOGsCw&q=meat%20the%20truth&hl=it
Tags: [Climate change] [Animal breeding] [Deforestation] [Dairy Farming]

Get Real on Climate Change
Website - Get Real on Climate Change
http://www.getrealonclimatechange.org/
Tags: [Activism] [Climate change] [Water] [Salinity]

Cargill and the priest
Article - Ecologist
http://www.theecologist.org/take_action/campaigns/271911/cargill_and_the_priest.html
Tags: [Soy] [Climate change] [Deforestation] [Damaged ecosystems] [Agribusiness] [Food Sovereignty] [Patents and Litigation]

Twelve years of GM soya in Argentina - a disaster for people and the environment
Article - Grain
http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=578
Tags: [Soy] [Food Sovereignty] [Climate change] [Herbicides and Pesticides]

Small Farms as a Planetary Ecological Asset.
Report - Miguel A Altieri - Third World Network Penang, Malaysia
http://www.agroeco.org/doc/smallfarmes-ecolasset.pdf
Tags: [Small scale farming] [Climate change] [Sustainable Agriculture]

Soil carbon solution
Article - The Canberra Times
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/content/lifestyle/1254302
Tags: [Soil Carbon] [Global food crisis] [Drought] [Climate change]

HOME
Audio / Video - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/homeproject
Tags: [Activism] [Climate change] [Global food crisis]

LSU scientist finds evidence of 'rain-making' bacteria
Article - Eureka Alert
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/lsu-lsf022808.php
Tags: [Drought] [Water] [Scientific Testing] [Climate change]

Crops to change the weather?
Article - BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/8097966.stm
Tags: [Scientific Testing] [Drought] [Water] [Climate change]

Safe Climate Australia
Website - Safe Climate Australia
http://www.safeclimateaustralia.org/
Tags: [Climate change] [Activism]

Michael Pollan address to Georgia Organics Conference
Audio / Video - Georgia Organics
http://www.georgiaorganics.org/conference/index.php?PHPSESSID=063e7df7a8e7275c51ccba17890bfe1c
Tags: [Biodiversity] [Climate change] [Organic Farming] [Agribusiness] [Herbicides and Pesticides]

Climate Change Human Sign
Event Details - LIVE: Locals Into Victoria's Environment
http://www.live.org.au/index.php/home-page
Tags: [Activism] [Climate change]

Carbon Equity: Ration the Future
Website - Carbon Equity: Ration the Future
http://www.carbonequity.info/
Tags: [Climate change]

Climate Code Red
Website - Climate Code Red: The case for emergency action
http://www.climatecodered.net/
Tags: [Climate change]

Inquiry into the role of government in assisting Australian farmers to adapt to the impacts of climate change
Submission - Parliament of Australia: House of Representatives
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/pir/australianfarmers/index.htm
Tags: [Parliamentry Directories] [Climate change] [Sustainable Agriculture]

Integrated solutions to the Water Agriculture and Climate Crises
Media Release - Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
http://www.iatp.org/
Tags: [Climate change] [Drought] [Agribusiness] [Food Production]

Switch off the CPRS: switch on renewables
Article - Friends of the Earth
http://www.foe.org.au/climate-justice/media/news-items/2009/switch-off-the-cprs-switch-on-renewables
Tags: [Activism] [Climate change]

Implications of Fossil Fuel Dependence for the Food System
Article - Energy Bulletin
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/17036
Tags: [Climate change] [Energy saving] [Economic Benefits]

Climate change and the Australian agricultural sector
Report - Parliament of Australia Senate
http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/rrat_ctte/climate_change/report/index.htm
Tags: [Climate change] [Parliamentry Directories] [Soil Carbon]

Climate Change: New Thinking to Tackle Old Problems
Article - IPS The story underneath
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45905
Tags: [Organic Farming] [Climate change] [Peak Oil]

Escape From Suburbia
Audio / Video - Escape from Suburbia
http://escapefromsuburbia.com
Tags: [Peak Oil] [Climate change]

SustainWeb
Website - SustainWeb
http://www.sustainweb.org/
Tags: [Food Production] [Climate change] [Food in Schools]

Various letters to the editor
Letter - Countryman and Farm Weekly 19-feb-09
http://www.madge.org.au/Docs/WA-media-letters.pdf
Tags: [Climate change]

Why Farmers Need to Speak Out Against War
Article - Farms not arms
http://www.farmsnotarms.org/statements/15_reasons.aspx
Tags: [Climate change]

Food security and global warming: Monsanto versus organic
Article - Grist
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/1/14/23742/0777
Tags: [Global food crisis] [Climate change] [Sustainable Agriculture]

Global crisis more than just financial
Audio / Video - ABC Rural
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/telegraph/content/2006/s2483110.htm
Tags: [Climate change] [Peak Oil] [Global food crisis]

The Myth of Progress, Toward a Sustainable Future - Tom Wessels
Book Details - University of Vermont Press
http://www.upne.com/1-58465-495-3.html
Tags: [Climate change] [Sustainable Agriculture]

Gambling with Gaia
Article - ETC Group
http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=608
Tags: [Climate change] [Geoengineering]

Wiser Earth
Website -
http://www.wiserearth.org/
Tags: [Sustainable Agriculture] [Transition cultures] [Climate change]

First South Atlantic hurricane hits Brazil
Article - USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2004-03-28-brazil-storm_x.htm
Tags: [Climate change]

Fight climate change by watching grass grow
Article - Queesnsland country Life
http://qcl.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness-and-general/general/fight-climate-change-by-watching-grass-grow/1375458.aspx
Tags: [Climate change] [Soil Carbon]

GM crops' green credentials
Article - Border Watch 28/11/2008
http://www.madge.org.au/Docs/Agrifood_BorderWatch_281108.pdf
Tags: [Climate change]

Horticulture takes first steps in measuring carbon footprint
Article - Horticulture Australia (HAL)
http://www.horticulture.com.au/news/default.asp?act=detail&mode=&newsid=246&src
Tags: [Climate change]

Climate Protection Bill
Webpage - GetUp!
http://www.getup.org.au/blogs/view.php?id=1574
Tags: [Climate change]

Research aims to get rail transport back on track
Article - Southern Cross University
http://discover.scu.edu.au/2008/issue7/index.php/12/
Tags: [Climate change] [Peak Oil]

MANIFESTO ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE FUTURE OF FOOD SECURITY
Report - The International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture
http://www.arsia.toscana.it/petizione/documents/clima/CLIMA_ING.pdf
Tags: [Climate change]

Terra Madre notes: Vandana Shiva rocks the house
Article - GRIST
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/10/25/904/94558
Tags: [Soil Carbon] [Climate change]

WALK AGAINST WARMING 2008
Event Details - Environment Victoria
http://www.envict.org.au/inform.php?menu=5&submenu=1279&item=1900
Tags: [Climate change]

The Growers and Eaters Forum - A better fresh food deal for farmers and consumers
Event Details - Cultivating Community
http://www.madge.org.au/Docs/The Growers and Eaters_Forum.pdf
Tags: [Local Food] [Farmers Markets] [Climate change] [Global food crisis] [Market control]

David Holmgren and Su Dennett Present: Future Scenarios and Solutions
Event Details - CERES
http://www.ceres.org.au/farm/David%20Holmgren%20flyer2.pdf
Tags: [Permaculture] [Peak Oil] [Climate change]

Why Prince Charles is right about agribusiness
Article - Guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/13/gmcrops.food
Tags: [Climate change] [Sustainable Agriculture] [Agribusiness]

What does food have to do with Climate Change?
Conference Paper - Madge - Climate Justice Seminar
http://www.madge.org.au/Docs/climatechange.pdf
Tags: [Climate change]

Green carbon is part of the climate change equation
Article - The Wilderness Society
http://www.wilderness.org.au/articles/green-carbon
Tags: [Deforestation] [Climate change]

Special Online Collection: Forests in Flux
Article - American Association for the Advancement of Science
http://www.sciencemag.org/forests/
Tags: [Climate change] [Deforestation]

Take real action on climate change
Article - The Wilderness Society
http://www.wilderness.org.au/articles/take-real-action-on-climate-change
Tags: [Climate change] [Deforestation]

Carbon Smart
Website - Landcare
http://www.carbonsmart.com.au/
Tags: [Soil Carbon] [Climate change]

GM push will be hard to resist: Burke
Article - Yahoo News
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/4773671/gm-push-hard-resist-burke
Tags: [Economic Benefits] [Climate change]

Climate Justice Seminar Agenda
Event Details - The Greens
http://www.madge.org.au/Docs/climatejustice.pdf
Tags: [Climate change]

Burke tour to include talks on GM crops, drought, climate change
Article - ABC Western Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/08/2297485.htm?site=wa
Tags: [Drought] [Climate change] [Western Australia]

CANCELLED - Major Landcare EXPOSITION Fathers’ Day Sunday September 7 Melbourne
Linked text: "Unfortunately the Landcare expo for the 7th Sept at Birrung Marr has been cancelled"
Event Details - Landcare
http://www.madge.org.au/Docs/ExpoAnnouncement Public.pdf
Tags: [Climate change] [Drought] [Sustainable Agriculture]

Regenerative 21st Century Farming: A Solution to Global Warming
Report - Rodale Institute
http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/files/Rodale_Research_Paper.pdf
Tags: [Climate change] [Peak Oil] [Soil Carbon] [Sustainable Agriculture]

Biotech giants demand a high price for saving the planet
Article - The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/biotech-giants-demand-a-high-price-for-saving-the-planet-842480.html
Tags: [Patents and Litigation] [Drought] [Climate change] [Agribusiness]

Climate Emergency Rally and Human Sign
Linked text: "Blogspot: Climate Emergency Rally organising group"
Event Details - Climate
http://climaterally.blogspot.com/
Tags: [Climate change]

Climate change will probably beat us: Garnaut
Article - The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/national/climate-change-will-probably-beat-us-garnaut-20080605-2m8l.html
Tags: [Climate change]

Lester R. Brown: Falling water tables, falling harvests
Book Details - Earth Policy Institute
http://www.earthpolicy.org/Books/Seg/PB3ch04_ss2.htm
Tags: [Climate change]

Patenting the “Climate Genes”… And Capturing the Climate Agenda
Article - ETC Group
http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=687
Tags: [Patents and Litigation] [Climate change] [Agribusiness]

Mothers Unite to Clean Up Our Climate!
Event Details - [supplied]
http://www.madge.org.au/Docs/mothersdaycleanup.pdf
Tags: [Climate change]

Land and biodiversity at a time of climate change
Website - DSE
http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/DSE/nrence.nsf/LinkView/523B19576C368289CA2572C0007B3BEA554FC9C681B6CAB6CA2572C600036DB1
Tags: [Climate change] [Damaged ecosystems] [Biodiversity]

Cartaret Islands: Residents First To Relocate Because Of Climate Change, Rising sea levels will totally submerse them by 2015
Webpage - Envirotalk
http://www.envirotalk.com.au/forum/index.php?showtopic=7080
Tags: [Climate change]

Climate Change|Social Change conference
Audio / Video - YouTube
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=lh_z_SwyFHU
Tags: [Climate change]

Transition Towns, Cities, Villages and Islands!
Website - transitiontowns.org
http://www.transitiontowns.org/
Tags: [Climate change] [Peak Oil] [Transition cultures]

Extended Forecast: Bloodshed
Article - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/opinion/13kristof.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Tags: [Climate change]

The International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)
Website - http://www.agassessment.org/
The International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development
Tags: [Climate change]

The climate engineers
Linked text: "Background briefing interviewed scientists who see shooting sulphur particles into the atmosphere to mimic a volcanic eruption as a possible solution to climate change"
Audio / Video - ABC: background Briefing
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2008/2204410.htm
Tags: [Climate change]

Climate Change |Social Change
Linked text: "MADGE will be running a workshop this Sunday pm with Greenpeace and Adam Breasley at the Climate Change/Social Change conference in Sydney this weekend"
Event Details - Green Left
http://www.greenleft.org.au/conference.php/
Tags: [Climate change]

Green Roofs Australia
Website - http://greenroofs.wordpress.com/
http://greenroofs.wordpress.com/
Tags: [Vegetable gardens] [Climate change]

Food Security and Environmental Change - Conference Sessions
Conference Paper - www.foodsecurity.elsevier.com
http://www.foodsecurity.elsevier.com/
Tags: [Climate change] [Global food crisis]

Academy endorses GM crops
Article - The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/12/17/1197740182396.html?s_cid=rss_ article
Tags: [Climate change] [Scientific Testing] [Food safety]

GM Soy in Brazil Will Kill the Amazon and Boost Global Warming by 50%
Linked text: "This article gives a sobering overview of the reasons for the development of GM crops and the effect"
Article - Brazil magazine
http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8964/1/
Tags: [GM Concerns] [Seed Saving] [Climate change] [Crop contamination] [Herbicides and Pesticides]

What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out?
Linked text: "Agribusiness and conventional farming systems are facing unprecedented challenges"
Article - www.richardheinberg.com
http://www.richardheinberg.com/museletter/188
Tags: [Climate change] [Biofuels] [Peak Oil]

Small scale sustainable farmers are cooling down the earth
Article - La Via Campesina
http://www.viacampesina.org/main_en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=457&Itemid=1
Tags: [Climate change] [Sustainable Agriculture]

Big food companies accused of risking climate catastrophe
Linked text: "Palm oil, an ingredient in many processed foods, is creating climate change."
Article - Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/08/climatechange.biofuels
Tags: [Climate change] [Oils]

Carbon and Catchments Inspiring REAL CHANGE in natural resource management
Linked text: "benefits of storing carbon in soil"
Conference Paper - Amazing Carbon
http://www.amazingcarbon.com/JONES-Carbon&Catchments(Nov06).pdf
Tags: [Soil Carbon] [Soil Health] [Climate change]