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Apr. 2nd, 2014 10:35 amDire predictions regarding climate change: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/business/energy-environment/a-200-year-old-forecast-for-food-scarcity-may-yet-come-true.html?action=click&module=Search®ion=searchResults%231&version=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry887%23%2FClimate%2Bchange%2Fsince1851%2Fallresults%2F2%2Fallauthors%2Fnewest%2F
The preservation of working class foodways in Italy: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/dining/italian-dj-fights-to-keep-culinary-traditions.html?src=me
And this blog entry about the disappearing knowledge of gold thread manufacturing: http://thistle-threads.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-time-is-now-how-our-textile.html
Human ingenuity pitted against a changing enviornment, and the need to preserve and develop traditional skills and products without industrializing them.