http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Thu, 23 May 2013 18:56:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/26/the-middle-east-dries-up%e2%80%94another-case-study-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/26/the-middle-east-dries-up%e2%80%94another-case-study-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:05:43 +0000 Lakis Polycarpou http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=13880 As seductive as it is, depleting non-renewable aquifers to grow food is fundamentally unsustainable for the long term, as Saudi Arabia and other nations are finding out. According to a recent article by Lester Brown, in the 1970s the world’s largest oil producer realized it could use oil-drilling technology to tap deep underwater aquifers and—amazingly, [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/26/the-middle-east-dries-up%e2%80%94another-case-study-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus/feed/ 8 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/10/27/changing-the-urban-relationship-to-food/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/10/27/changing-the-urban-relationship-to-food/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:46:46 +0000 Mariapaola Sutto http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=614 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/10/27/changing-the-urban-relationship-to-food/feed/ 4