Information below on Argentina's urban agriculture movement, structured along different lines than Cuba's 'organiponicos'. There are community gardens in many North American cities, but they are often symbolic efforts by community groups that have to fight hard to get even a single vacant lot.

What would it take to get a system like the one in Rosario going in your city? The barriers seen to be mainly political, so the solutions may also be political. Tactics can range from lobbying city governments through existing local gardening organizations to establishing 'guerrilla gardens' on median strips -- gardens publically and overtly set up with a highly publicized commitment to donating all of the food grown to local food banks might be a good Gandhian tactic for converting public grass to food production. Could your city 'fathers' take the political heat for shutting one of these donation gardens down?

The British National Party, a British racist organization, is adopting peak oil as a key part of their policy. The BNP is unusually clear in spelling out how peak oil fits into their long-term plan to achieve power:

"When the BNP does win political power Peak Oil will not be something that we can postpone. It will be happening at the very time that we come to power. In fact it may well be an important catalyst that helps us to win political power because we are the ones talking about it now, the voters might not like us pointing out that the wolf is approaching the chicken coop but they will identify us as the ones who kept speaking about it back in 2005, bringing it to their awareness and understanding.

Here is a reminder that the real price of gas is not paid at the pump, but at the point of production. I understand that Chevron's next outreach venture is going to be called "www.WillYouKillUs.com"...

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Chevron Paid Nigerian Troops After Alleged Killing

Nigerian soldiers guarding Chevron oil rigs billed the company for $109.25 a day after they allegedly attacked two villages in the volatile country, killing four people and setting fire to homes.

The company paid.

The money was requested in a small invoice -- stamped with Chevron's logo and the name of its Nigerian subsidiary -- that surfaced this year as part of a lawsuit against the San Ramon oil giant. Residents of the Opia and Ikenyan villages are suing Chevron in San Francisco's federal court, trying to hold the firm responsible for the fatal attacks in 1999.