Blue Marble 2012

Nice HD - Blue Marble 2012.

"Water revolution looming"?

A new semester has begun, and it's time to revive the blog.

Here's a Journal-Sentinel article about a relatively new book on water scarcity. Not the gloom and doom you might expect, but I'm not sure I'll be able to drink Evian again, thanks to the author's colorful description. Let me know if you've read it.

Meanwhile, here's one author's take on how to deal with looming water scarcity in cities: increase land use density. (Some nice colorful maps too!)

A geographer's perspective on famine in the Horn of Africa

Here's an excellent column on famine in the Horn of Africa by geographer Bill Moseley, an expert on development and environmental change in Africa. For students taking Geography 125, this is an eloquent, brief, and readable analysis that illustrates how a political ecology perspective differs from dominant, mainstream perspectives on food, hunger, and agriculture (the issues in Chapter 8 of your textbook).

Urban farming and inner-city jobs in Milwaukee

Growing Power has attracted national (and even international) attention for its urban agriculture programs in Milwaukee and Chicago. It is an organization that has long sought to connect urban farming with issues of social justice, including food security and unemployment. Here's a recent news article about a proposed new program through which Growing Power would aim to address the latter issue.