Eavesdropping on Business-Speak, by John Stodder
Posted in Agriculture, Crime, Dolan Media on Jan 11th, 2008
Oil is not the only commodity getting an historic high price this year. According to the Journal Record, wheat prices have broken $10 per bushel, up from $3 a year ago due to high worldwide demand and bad weather in some wheat-growing places like Argentina and Australia.
So here come the wheat rustlers, writes Brian […]
Posted in Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Trade on Nov 7th, 2007
The biofuel kick, prompted by concern for global warming, is driving up the cost of food in developing nations to the point where the trade has become “a crime against humanity,” according to a UN official quoted in this story from the UK Guardian. Writer George Monbiot begins with a painful allusion to Jonathan […]
Posted in Agriculture, Dolan Media, Environment on Oct 16th, 2007
Colorado Springs Business Journal reporter John Hazlehurst is almost finished with his comprehensive, six-part series about the Colorado River and how western states’ dependence on it is increasingly untenable due to persistent drought.
Part 5 is about Southern California, the bête noire of water geeks. For years, the region’s water wholesaler, the Metropolitan Water […]
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