If you haven't heard about SXSWEco, then you should take a moment and jump over to sxsweco.com - here's the brief run down about what the event is about:
SXSW Eco is a three-day conference addressing the need for a concerted, cross sector approach to solving the recognized challenges facing the economy, the environment and civil society. In its second year, SXSW Eco will be held October 3rd-5th, 2012 at the AT&T Conference Center in Austin, Texas.
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If you haven't heard about SXSWEco, then you should take a moment and jump over to sxsweco.com - here's the brief run down about what the event is about:
SXSW Eco is a three-day conference addressing the need for a concerted, cross sector approach to solving the recognized challenges facing the economy, the environment and civil society. In its second year, SXSW Eco will be held October 3rd-5th, 2012 at the AT&T Conference Center in Austin, Texas.
Hosting an international audience of on-the-ground innovators and executive level decision makers from the public and private sectors as well as thought leaders from academia, this event will drive the conversation of sustainability beyond rhetoric and towards solutions. SXSW Eco is for professionals at the forefront of the post-recognition Continue... 
Recently we've heard the same old arguments being pumped out by industrial agriculture, especially in reaction to the droughts in the US.
The argument goes: "There's almost 7 billion people on Earth, and there's 1 billion hungry. We need more food to feed the world. We must intensify agriculture; bigger & better, and we've got the answer - we call it a Sustainable Agriculture". That 'Sustainable Agriculture future' is typically large-scale intensive agriculture, GMO, and more sophisticated 'scientific' farming methods. Inevitably the cost of this agriculture is greater, and farmers must have all of the latest information, tools, machinery & chemicals to make it happen. It also, coincidentally, means greater profits for the big boys of industrial agriculture