Whatever The Economist might think, DEFRA is worried about bees and is on the job.
Featured: Fruit
Luigi on Tropical fruit cocktail:
The business of sustainability
Emeka Okafor at Timbuktu Chronicles has turned me on to Sustainable Food Lab, a consortium of 70 businesses and social organizations dedicated to “accelerating the shift of sustainable food from niche to mainstream.” Among other agrobiodiversity-related things, they have a project on Allenbackia, which is what got Emeka excited in the first place. I like the geographic interface.
14th Berry Go Round…
…is up, at Gravity’s Rainbow. Welcome, everyone!
Sea level rise
Forget 59 cms. Talk is of about a metre sea level rise by 2100. “Greenland alone will raise sea level by seven metres” says Stefan Rahmstorf, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Bye bye Bangladesh. So long Myanmar.
Question: how fast can mangroves migrate?