Bless them, the Guardian have published the internal World Bank document that suggests that biofuels are responsible for up to three quarters of the recent food price increases. It has so dramatically pushed up the estimate of the share of biofuels in the current crisis that even Robert Zoellick has said
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The San Francisco Victory Garden is well underway, as you can see here. For me, one of the most exciting parts of this lies in the thinking behind the planting.

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So the San Francisco Victory Garden is underway. Above, the breaking of ground and the removing of sod. It’ll start getting more interesting as the beds are prepared and laid out. Ultimately, it’ll look like this:

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