Comments on: Transition Town Totnes Bulletin #6. February 22nd 2007. http://transitionculture.org/2007/02/22/transition-town-totnes-bulletin-6-february-22nd-2007/ An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:35:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ellie baker http://transitionculture.org/2007/02/22/transition-town-totnes-bulletin-6-february-22nd-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-58015 ellie baker Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:46:21 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/02/22/transition-town-totnes-bulletin-6-february-22nd-2007/#comment-58015 <p>Great site and positive ideas, just scanning the web for thoughts of self build and very nice to find an initiative of such complexity.</p> Great site and positive ideas, just scanning the web for thoughts of self build and very nice to find an initiative of such complexity.

]]> By: Robert Morgan http://transitionculture.org/2007/02/22/transition-town-totnes-bulletin-6-february-22nd-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-23814 Robert Morgan Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:32:53 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/02/22/transition-town-totnes-bulletin-6-february-22nd-2007/#comment-23814 <p>Anyone in doubt that we need to localise food production might like to take a look at the article below about the effect of the Australian drought on grain productoon there. Quote included. Transpose even a fraction of those sorts of losses onto the world's major grain producing regions and you have a frightening picture.</p> <p>http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/crop-production-worst-in-20-years/2007/02/20/1171733730091.html</p> <p>"Rice production will plummet 90 per cent to just 106,000 tonnes. ABARE is tipping grain sorghum production to fall 51 per cent to 996,000 tonnes. Wheat production is estimated at 9.8 million tonnes, down 61 per cent on the previous season. Barley production fell by 62 per cent to 3.7 million tonnes, and the canola harvest dropped 64 per cent to 513,000 tonnes."</p> Anyone in doubt that we need to localise food production might like to take a look at the article below about the effect of the Australian drought on grain productoon there. Quote included. Transpose even a fraction of those sorts of losses onto the world’s major grain producing regions and you have a frightening picture.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/crop-production-worst-in-20-years/2007/02/20/1171733730091.html

“Rice production will plummet 90 per cent to just 106,000 tonnes.
ABARE is tipping grain sorghum production to fall 51 per cent to 996,000 tonnes.
Wheat production is estimated at 9.8 million tonnes, down 61 per cent on the previous season.
Barley production fell by 62 per cent to 3.7 million tonnes, and the canola harvest dropped 64 per cent to 513,000 tonnes.”

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