Are you a farmer at heart? Start a ‘Crop Mob’: A growing number of young people are finishing college and resisting the pressure to plunk down in a cube behind a computer. Others skip college altogether—given the spiraling costs involved, it’s hard to blame them—and yearn for meaningful, hands-on work. Community-scale organic farming has emerged as an attractive profession for such talented, energetic youth. Despite problems such as low pay and high land prices, youthful zeal to farm survives. This is a major asset to the sustainable food movement. As current active farmers near retirement age, an emerging generation of keen but landless farmers is rising. One of the main challenges will be to help find them land and create the infrastructure needed to make the new style of farming a viable profession. Read more at:
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/51786

Sustainability: The Five Core Principles - A New Framework by Michael Ben-Eli: "If you wish to fly and want to successfully construct an aircraft in order to do so, you need to understand the basic principles of aerodynamics. Similarly, if we are serious about ensuring a sustainable future, we need to be guided by a set of principles which underlie sustainability as an enduring state." Read more at:
http://www.sustainabilitylabs.org/page/sustainability-five-core-principles

Did the discovery of cooking make us human? It seems that learning to cook created 'big brains’. Cooking is something we all take for granted but a new theory suggests that if we had not learned to cook food, not only would we still look like chimps but, like them, we would also be compelled to spend most of the day chewing. Read more and see the video clip at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8543906.stm

The cult of omega-3: Hardly a week goes by without a new health claim being made of eating oily fish. But is it really as magical as we are told? If there were a top 40 of good foods, a chart rundown of the right things to eat, then anything containing omega-3 fatty acids would have been number one for years. They even have their own international awareness day, which takes place this Wednesday.But how much of this is hype, and how much reality? Is there a danger that a largely fish-derived fatty acid is being turned into a modern-day magic potion? Read more on the argument at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8543172.stm

[Thanks to Ellie F, Vanda R, and John H for the links.]