From Pornography to Agriculture: Challenging Hierarchy
By Robert Jensen, MerionWest
Whatever the future of this broken world, today we can attend to the work of repair and restoration. That does not require hope in what is to come but, rather, a belief in our ability to manage our lives without hierarchy and a faith in each other’s capacity for mutuality.
Podcast from the Prarie: Methodism in my madness
By Robert Jensen, Wes Jackson, Podcast from the Prairie
In this episode of “Podcast from the Prairie,” Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen discuss the role of religion, both in Jackson’s life and in our human future.
Transforming life on our home planet, perennially
By Wes Jackson, Aubrey Streit Krug, Bill Vitek, Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
With nearly eight billion people on the planet, we aren’t going back to hunting and gathering. But around the world, often under the banner of agroecology, people are using modern science and traditional knowledge to develop ways of farming that are less ecologically and socially destructive.
Podcast from the Prairie: Mad About Science
By Wes Jackson, Robert Jensen, Podcast from the Prairie
In Episode 3, titled “Mad about Science,” host Robert Jensen asks Wes how formal science differs from, and is similar to, the folk science he learned on the farm growing up.
Who is “we”?
By Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
We humans have made a mess of things, which is readily evident if we face the avalanche of studies and statistics describing the contemporary ecological crises we face. The question is, can we—all of us—face what lies ahead without diversion and without illusion?
Podcast from the Prairie: Respecting your Tools
By Robert Jensen, Wes Jackson, Podcast from the Prairie
In this episode, Jackson reflects on the importance of honoring the people and tools one works with, on the sweat and joy that comes in committing fully to a task, and the kind of work necessary if there is to be a sustainable future.
Podcast from the Prairie: Intellectual Grounding
By Robert Jensen, Wes Jackson, Podcast from the Prairie
Welcome to “Podcast from the Prairie.” Wes Jackson, one of the founders of the sustainable agriculture movement, tells stories that take us from lessons learned growing up on a Kansas farm to the front lines of crucial debates about ecological crises and social struggles
Seize a Wrench and the Day
By Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
Rex points out what many sociologists have observed: In small communities with limited resources, people get things done through collective effort, which means spending lots of time together, which creates real bonds.