Agreeable Agriculture With Eric Toensmeier
Can simply changing how and what we grow really make a difference to a changing climate?
Act: Inspiration
A Time for Retrovation
Most people in today’s industrial society believe, or think they believe, in progress: they believe, that is, that human history has a built-in bias that infallibly moves it from worse things to better things over time.
Young farmers, Brexit and Future Prospects
While there remains a good deal of uncertainty, it is clear to me that Brexit provides an opportunity to advocate for a more sustainable approach to agriculture, to boost its profile on what will be a new national policy agenda for food and farming.
California Seed Sharing Bill Signed into Law
Seed sharing in California took a major step forward on Friday when Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the California Seed Exchange Democracy Act, an amendment to the California Seed Law. It’s the latest victory in a global movement to support and protect seed sharing and saving.
At Standing Rock, a Sense of Purpose: “This Is How We Should Be Living”
Here, with a purpose that threads through generations, work, celebration, and activism are a seamless whole.
Why the Food Movement is Unstoppable
In the simplest terms possible, the opposite of neoliberal ideology is not communism or socialism, it is the food movement.
Book Review and Competition: ‘Born on Third Base’ by Chuck Collins
“Wealthy friends and neighbours”, he writes, “it is time to come home”, and “to come out of your gated communities and gated hearts”.
Two Tribes
After two centuries of relentless urbanist propaganda, we’ve almost lost even the very language with which we might plausibly set out radical ruralist alternatives.
New Forms of Network-based Governance
To return to our original question: How can we develop new ways to preserve and extend the democratic capacities of ordinary people and rein in unaccountable market/state power?
Placemaking and Health
There is growing evidence showing that place impacts people’s health on multiple scales.
Exploring the Gap Between Business-as-Usual and Utter Doom
As long as we’ve had language—for tens of thousands of years, at last estimate—we’ve been able to formulate the question, “What will tomorrow bring?”
To Monopoly, Reasoned Argument is Lost Amongst Meaningless Cries of Sea Birds
We converse with each other, but to the monopolies, we are a noise – a sea bird colony at nesting time…
