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  • Cooking oil

    Can you taste the fuels in your food? 5

    Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago To see fossil fuels in action on a farm, Amanda Little paid a visit to a Kansas corn grower and hitched a ride in his high-tech tractor. This is the fourth installment in a series of exclusive excerpts from Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells -- Our Ride to the Renewable Future.
  • Bioreactor reaction

    Gulf dead zone fix falls flat 6

    Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago It's good to see a big Midwest "land grant" agricultural program that's concerned about the Gulf Dead Zone, and upper Midwest farms' large contribution to it.
  • Our Oil Obsessed Civilization

    The oil intensity of food 0

    Posted 5 months ago

    Today we are an oil-based civilization, one that is totally dependent on a resource whose production will soon be falling. This prospect of peaking oil production has direct consequences for world food security, as modern agriculture depends heavily on the use of fossil fuels.

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