Saturday, February 28, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
a letter
rage against the mainstream.
participate in it only as much as is necessary to maintain dignity and respect among those who live it (which I'll warn you is a frighteningly large number of people, by definition).
don't buy things, because you really don't need things, and if you dare to regard 'your things' as merely 'things,' they will start to lose all meaning (kinda like the word things).
if you must buy stuff, do so with confidence that your consumption is not harming anyone else, (has not and will not, too) and purchase pre-loved goods.
before this, though, be creative. reuse jars, rubber bands, fabric, bits of string, and everything else. that's right: everything.
wear what you like and what makes you feel comfortable. don't fall into the traps of brand names and marketing.
value is not made of money.
play equipment-less sports - swim, walk, stretch, practice yoga.
eat things that energize you, and encourage others to do the same. don't feed your guests; nourish them.
invite people over to your home, casualize social situations so that you can blur the lines between norms and normal.
stop talking about community and enact it.
be goofy, accept support, offer your ear when someone else is in need.
seek out the skills and talents of your friends, rather than spending money on impersonal services.
give back in whatever way you can. keep a gratitude journal, plant seeds, volunteer.
acknowledge the greatness of the universe and the miracle of life around you, accepting that you are small within it, but certainly not insignificant.
smile at strangers. exchange expressive glances, because we do not drop out of emotional life the moment we enter public space.
be friendly, because loneliness is rampant (and becoming pandemic) in this plugged in and 'connected' world.
refuse (politely) to accept garbage from others. this includes 'disposables,' blame, paper cups, and self-doubt. let no one rent space in your head.
revel in colour, knowing that its use is powerful, and surround yourself with your favourites.
drink tap water, if you can, because you can, and appreciate that ability.
dance when you feel like dancing. sing when you feel like singing. don't buy into other people's beliefs that there is an appropriate age for doing things. this will make life more fun.
stop killing bugs. stop driving a car. stop flushing your toilet so often.
start a compost pile. start keeping your door open. start living the life you've always imagined, rife with possibilities.
participate in it only as much as is necessary to maintain dignity and respect among those who live it (which I'll warn you is a frighteningly large number of people, by definition).
don't buy things, because you really don't need things, and if you dare to regard 'your things' as merely 'things,' they will start to lose all meaning (kinda like the word things).
if you must buy stuff, do so with confidence that your consumption is not harming anyone else, (has not and will not, too) and purchase pre-loved goods.
before this, though, be creative. reuse jars, rubber bands, fabric, bits of string, and everything else. that's right: everything.
wear what you like and what makes you feel comfortable. don't fall into the traps of brand names and marketing.
value is not made of money.
play equipment-less sports - swim, walk, stretch, practice yoga.
eat things that energize you, and encourage others to do the same. don't feed your guests; nourish them.
invite people over to your home, casualize social situations so that you can blur the lines between norms and normal.
stop talking about community and enact it.
be goofy, accept support, offer your ear when someone else is in need.
seek out the skills and talents of your friends, rather than spending money on impersonal services.
give back in whatever way you can. keep a gratitude journal, plant seeds, volunteer.
acknowledge the greatness of the universe and the miracle of life around you, accepting that you are small within it, but certainly not insignificant.
smile at strangers. exchange expressive glances, because we do not drop out of emotional life the moment we enter public space.
be friendly, because loneliness is rampant (and becoming pandemic) in this plugged in and 'connected' world.
refuse (politely) to accept garbage from others. this includes 'disposables,' blame, paper cups, and self-doubt. let no one rent space in your head.
revel in colour, knowing that its use is powerful, and surround yourself with your favourites.
drink tap water, if you can, because you can, and appreciate that ability.
dance when you feel like dancing. sing when you feel like singing. don't buy into other people's beliefs that there is an appropriate age for doing things. this will make life more fun.
stop killing bugs. stop driving a car. stop flushing your toilet so often.
start a compost pile. start keeping your door open. start living the life you've always imagined, rife with possibilities.
How big are your feet?
I have taken several versions of this quiz, but found this one particularly useful. Try it yourself to find out what your ecological footprint is!
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
The zero hour is coming - the Toronto Star, January 3, 2009
At the start of a financially challenged 2009 one word dominates: "Stimulus" has become the desperate mantra as a fractured world agrees on the need to inject cash and credit into the bed-ridden economy.
Many governments have taken unprecedented stimulative measures and promise more.
In Ottawa the opposition "coalition" threatened to overthrow the Conservative government for not following suit. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, desperate to evade defeat, is negotiating a "stimulus" budget with the Liberals.
During the holiday shopping season, Premier Dalton McGuinty exhorted Ontarians to contribute their own stimulus by hitting malls and car showrooms. He didn't urge us to buy things because we need them: The aim is to save jobs, profits and tax revenues.
His advice was predictable: It is common, unshakeable wisdom that a healthy economy must expand. The mere suggestion of the oxymoronic "negative growth" is grounds for dismay; panic ensues if it persists for six months – officially a recession.
We don' t appear to mind that the definition of recession is based on gross domestic product, which simply totals the supposed value of all the goods and services a country produces and ignores a wide array of social and ecological costs.
Even many environmentalists trumpet growth, cloaking it in green. With clean, efficient, carbon-free technologies, they say, we can have more of everything and keep the planet habitable.
One recent example was a "groundbreaking" study by the Pembina Institute and David Suzuki Foundation. It claimed that within 12 years Canada could cut its greenhouse gas emissions to 25 per cent below 1990 levels and still expand its economy by 20 per cent and create 1.2 million jobs.
Researchers at the highly respected Potsdam Institute, in Germany, calculate annual growth at 2.5 per cent in their models of the steps required to prevent runaway climate change. They insist on expansion even though it would require massive use of techniques such as carbon capture and storage – grabbing carbon dioxide from smokestacks and burying it underground – that, they say in private, they don't actually trust. The pressure to accept growth is just too great to resist.
But some impressive thinkers argue we need to contemplate something different. They say not only that Earth won't sustain relentless expansion – since we're consuming its limited natural resources far faster than they can be replenished – but also that we'd be better off in a steadier state.
It's a small, disparate band of economists, philosophers and ecologists that dares to challenge our economic orthodoxy, and to develop the ideas in earlier books like Ernst Shumacher's Small is Beautiful and the Club of Rome-sponsored Limits to Growth.
"No growth" advocates have faced a tough battle to be taken seriously, even though most of the general predictions made 35 years ago in Limits to Growth were accurate. And they won't sweep the world in 2009. We're still closer to the extreme represented by the frenzied Long Island mob that figured a Wal-Mart employee's life was worth less than a sale-priced toaster.
The concept runs counter to almost every piece of expert advice about how to cope with the current downturn, and its proponents admit that a period when most indicators are headed south is not the time for an abrupt change in course. But they do say that this confluence of economic and climate change crises ought to cause us to think seriously about the longer term.
"There's a growing concern about where we are," says Peter Victor, a senior economist at York University, who recently published his latest book, Managing Without Growth. "People are looking for alternatives."
In his book, Victor asks: "Will the capacity of Earth to provide and accommodate the flows of material and energy on which economies depend constrain future economic growth?" His answer is "Yes," and it comes with a warning: "If we do not address this issue, then, the next generation or two may have to do it anyway without any preparation for the task whatsoever. That is not a legacy for which they would thank us."
"The implicit assumption is that the planet can cope with endless growth," he said in an interview. "It's the desire to question that assumption that's the primary driver of my work."
What's wrong with growth?
In the first place, Victor says, it hasn't fulfilled the promise of full employment, less poverty and a better environment: "Growth has been disappointing."
We don't require endless improvement in material wealth, he adds. "Above a certain level of income there's no relationship between wealth and happiness."
In fact, Victor and others say, the focus on growth diminishes us, largely because two-thirds of our economy is based on consumer spending: If we don't work and earn so we can keep stuff flying off store shelves and into ever-larger homes, our industrial machine sputters and wheezes. Other important aspects of life – family, friends, relaxation, contemplation, health, hobbies and interests – are trampled in the mad frenzy to ensure the wheel stays spinning.
In a 2007 article promoting his book Consumed, American political scientist Benjamin Barber says capitalism is stymied. Originally an effective way to ensure people got what they need, it now renders us infantile by convincing us to embrace artificial needs and desires, so that we must have the latest toys and gadgets – right now!
"In order to turn reluctant consumers with few unsatisfied core needs into permanent shoppers, producers must dumb down consumers, shape their wants, take over their life worlds, encourage impulse buying, cultivate shopaholism and invent new needs," Barber says.
"This is capitalism's all-too-logical way of solving the problem of too many goods chasing too few needs."
But even if growth were beneficial to the human psyche, it couldn't continue, Victor says. The finite Earth won't tolerate it. A "green economy" would only delay the day of reckoning.
"The faster an economy grows, the higher the rate it has to decarbonize," or replace fossil fuels with renewable energy and conservation, he says. "No matter how efficient you get, you have to use carbon."
Victor isn't saying we should let the economy continue its current collapse: "`No growth' can be disastrous if implemented carelessly." But, he says, the crisis ought to encourage us to think of a new strategy.
His plan calls for growth to decelerate until around 2030. At that point, we'd be materially better off than now and enjoying life more.
We'd get there, he says, through policies that include:
Stabilizing population by letting immigration offset the forecast natural decline. Maintaining current levels of family reunifications and refugees, but allowing fewer economic immigrants.
Cutting resource use and waste emissions through taxes, cap-and-trade systems and other measures to reduce consumption of goods and increase emphasis on services.
Reducing the time each person works and spreading the jobs around.
Taking increased productivity as leisure time.
Assessing the environmental and social impacts of new technologies before they can be produced.
Promoting local economies.
If these items sound Draconian, Victor says, we should remember they're already in use in some form. And if we consume less, he notes, we'll leave room for growth in poorer parts of the world.
He admits it won't be easy: "The scope of change required for managing without growth is so great that no democratically elected government could implement the requisite policies without the broad-based consent of the electorate. Even talking about them could make a politician unelectable."
That's especially true because, "as a species, we evolved having to deal with short time spans and a relatively small spatial scope. The problem now is that we have big impacts that are global and long-term. The question is, are we capable of thinking at that level?"
So far, we've shown little inclination to make the leap. In fact, the usual reaction to "no growth" is ridicule or hostility. That doesn't faze Victor. "I don't back away from an idea simply because there's a backlash."
Many governments have taken unprecedented stimulative measures and promise more.
In Ottawa the opposition "coalition" threatened to overthrow the Conservative government for not following suit. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, desperate to evade defeat, is negotiating a "stimulus" budget with the Liberals.
During the holiday shopping season, Premier Dalton McGuinty exhorted Ontarians to contribute their own stimulus by hitting malls and car showrooms. He didn't urge us to buy things because we need them: The aim is to save jobs, profits and tax revenues.
His advice was predictable: It is common, unshakeable wisdom that a healthy economy must expand. The mere suggestion of the oxymoronic "negative growth" is grounds for dismay; panic ensues if it persists for six months – officially a recession.
We don' t appear to mind that the definition of recession is based on gross domestic product, which simply totals the supposed value of all the goods and services a country produces and ignores a wide array of social and ecological costs.
Even many environmentalists trumpet growth, cloaking it in green. With clean, efficient, carbon-free technologies, they say, we can have more of everything and keep the planet habitable.
One recent example was a "groundbreaking" study by the Pembina Institute and David Suzuki Foundation. It claimed that within 12 years Canada could cut its greenhouse gas emissions to 25 per cent below 1990 levels and still expand its economy by 20 per cent and create 1.2 million jobs.
Researchers at the highly respected Potsdam Institute, in Germany, calculate annual growth at 2.5 per cent in their models of the steps required to prevent runaway climate change. They insist on expansion even though it would require massive use of techniques such as carbon capture and storage – grabbing carbon dioxide from smokestacks and burying it underground – that, they say in private, they don't actually trust. The pressure to accept growth is just too great to resist.
But some impressive thinkers argue we need to contemplate something different. They say not only that Earth won't sustain relentless expansion – since we're consuming its limited natural resources far faster than they can be replenished – but also that we'd be better off in a steadier state.
It's a small, disparate band of economists, philosophers and ecologists that dares to challenge our economic orthodoxy, and to develop the ideas in earlier books like Ernst Shumacher's Small is Beautiful and the Club of Rome-sponsored Limits to Growth.
"No growth" advocates have faced a tough battle to be taken seriously, even though most of the general predictions made 35 years ago in Limits to Growth were accurate. And they won't sweep the world in 2009. We're still closer to the extreme represented by the frenzied Long Island mob that figured a Wal-Mart employee's life was worth less than a sale-priced toaster.
The concept runs counter to almost every piece of expert advice about how to cope with the current downturn, and its proponents admit that a period when most indicators are headed south is not the time for an abrupt change in course. But they do say that this confluence of economic and climate change crises ought to cause us to think seriously about the longer term.
"There's a growing concern about where we are," says Peter Victor, a senior economist at York University, who recently published his latest book, Managing Without Growth. "People are looking for alternatives."
In his book, Victor asks: "Will the capacity of Earth to provide and accommodate the flows of material and energy on which economies depend constrain future economic growth?" His answer is "Yes," and it comes with a warning: "If we do not address this issue, then, the next generation or two may have to do it anyway without any preparation for the task whatsoever. That is not a legacy for which they would thank us."
"The implicit assumption is that the planet can cope with endless growth," he said in an interview. "It's the desire to question that assumption that's the primary driver of my work."
What's wrong with growth?
In the first place, Victor says, it hasn't fulfilled the promise of full employment, less poverty and a better environment: "Growth has been disappointing."
We don't require endless improvement in material wealth, he adds. "Above a certain level of income there's no relationship between wealth and happiness."
In fact, Victor and others say, the focus on growth diminishes us, largely because two-thirds of our economy is based on consumer spending: If we don't work and earn so we can keep stuff flying off store shelves and into ever-larger homes, our industrial machine sputters and wheezes. Other important aspects of life – family, friends, relaxation, contemplation, health, hobbies and interests – are trampled in the mad frenzy to ensure the wheel stays spinning.
In a 2007 article promoting his book Consumed, American political scientist Benjamin Barber says capitalism is stymied. Originally an effective way to ensure people got what they need, it now renders us infantile by convincing us to embrace artificial needs and desires, so that we must have the latest toys and gadgets – right now!
"In order to turn reluctant consumers with few unsatisfied core needs into permanent shoppers, producers must dumb down consumers, shape their wants, take over their life worlds, encourage impulse buying, cultivate shopaholism and invent new needs," Barber says.
"This is capitalism's all-too-logical way of solving the problem of too many goods chasing too few needs."
But even if growth were beneficial to the human psyche, it couldn't continue, Victor says. The finite Earth won't tolerate it. A "green economy" would only delay the day of reckoning.
"The faster an economy grows, the higher the rate it has to decarbonize," or replace fossil fuels with renewable energy and conservation, he says. "No matter how efficient you get, you have to use carbon."
Victor isn't saying we should let the economy continue its current collapse: "`No growth' can be disastrous if implemented carelessly." But, he says, the crisis ought to encourage us to think of a new strategy.
His plan calls for growth to decelerate until around 2030. At that point, we'd be materially better off than now and enjoying life more.
We'd get there, he says, through policies that include:
Stabilizing population by letting immigration offset the forecast natural decline. Maintaining current levels of family reunifications and refugees, but allowing fewer economic immigrants.
Cutting resource use and waste emissions through taxes, cap-and-trade systems and other measures to reduce consumption of goods and increase emphasis on services.
Reducing the time each person works and spreading the jobs around.
Taking increased productivity as leisure time.
Assessing the environmental and social impacts of new technologies before they can be produced.
Promoting local economies.
If these items sound Draconian, Victor says, we should remember they're already in use in some form. And if we consume less, he notes, we'll leave room for growth in poorer parts of the world.
He admits it won't be easy: "The scope of change required for managing without growth is so great that no democratically elected government could implement the requisite policies without the broad-based consent of the electorate. Even talking about them could make a politician unelectable."
That's especially true because, "as a species, we evolved having to deal with short time spans and a relatively small spatial scope. The problem now is that we have big impacts that are global and long-term. The question is, are we capable of thinking at that level?"
So far, we've shown little inclination to make the leap. In fact, the usual reaction to "no growth" is ridicule or hostility. That doesn't faze Victor. "I don't back away from an idea simply because there's a backlash."
Saturday, September 20, 2008
---- Young Farmers, a call to arms! ----
co-written by Severine v T Fleming and Zoe Bradbury.
posted on Grist.
Coast to coast, thousands of people are inspired to dig in and grow food! Yet access to the land, capital, market savvy, and skills requires for successful farming is available only to a dauntless few. Those few are brave, strong, and delightful advocates of the purposeful life, but it will take more than a few to reclaim a food system of industrial monocultures, labor abuse, and toxic factory conditions. This is the injustice our movement seeks to repair.
Indeed, it will take the muscle and heart of a large-scale, young-farmers movement: thousands upon thousands of hands on the land -- the hands of women and immigrants, the hands of fourth-generation farm kids, the hands of college graduates and former farmworkers-turned-farmers. It will take thousands of new growers of fruits, nuts, vegetables, grains, dairy, and livestock to transform the landscape of sprawling development and corporate control into a dignified, livable, and culturally rich mosaic of ecological farming.
The young farmers now emerging onto the land seek to reclaim, restore, and resettle the deserted rural towns of America. We are similarly poised to revive the fabric of urban life with markets, gardens, bees, corn patches and waterways. Motivated by a force of intention that cannot be rationalized economically, with lives driven by an instinct for direct action and stewardship that honors the planet, people, and place, we are the allies of every American. Our instincts are emboldened by the mercury shatter of dew on the broccoli plants at dawn, by the roar of pollinators in a flowering crop of buckwheat, and by the river of neighbors streaming through the farm-gate clamoring for "real" tomatoes and happy chickens. The hands of young farmers on the land seek to push forward an agenda of sustainability on a human scale.
There is much to learn, and there is much, as a culture, that we risk forgetting. We need these bodies, we need their work, we need their food and their protagonism. We need young farmers to succeed and we need that success to be rewarded.
As fledgling farmers and activists within this community, we see these to be some of the key political, economic, and cultural requirements for that success:
* A hospitable policy environment that prioritizes a next generation of food producers -- not massive corporate subsidies, not cheap imports from across the world
* A regulatory framework friendly to smaller producers
* Affordable credit for capitalization of diversified farms
* Public-private partnerships to give aspiring farmers better access to farmland
* University research focused on low-input, resilient, sustainable production
* Practical, school-based, agricultural training programs (hands in the soil)
* Reformed land-use proscriptions at the community and state level -- some land and soil should never be developed
* Incubator farms to rear and train fledgling farmers and an Agricultural Journeymen program to help people navigate the path from aspiring farmer to successful new farmer.
* Processing infrastructure and facilities for fruits, meats, dairy, etc. at the local scale
* State-sponsored direct-marketing venues -- covered markets, public markets, and friendly zoning for farmers markets and farm-stands
* Comprehensive, affordable health insurance for farmers and food-workers
* Improved state-sponsored nutrition programs for at-risk, elderly and civic establishments.
* Start-up grants and an expansion of Individual Development Accounts, matched-savings program for qualified young farmers, to afford irrigation, tools, equipment, fencing, land, production infrastructure, etc.
* A cultural revaluation of farming as an ambitious, worthwhile life-venture, celebrated by family, church, and society
* Fiscal underwriting of farm-supportive NGOs and programs
* Songs, dances, parties, and festivals for young farmers in the countryside
* High-speed internet connectivity in rural places
* New farmer forums for networking, marketing, resource-sharing, processing, and farmer-to-farmer exchanges
* Access to locally grown seed and protection from transgenic pollution
* Fair wages and equal labor rights for all farmworkers, even those with "illegal" status
* Consumer education about the realities and true cost of food production
* More consumer/producer alliances such as community supported agriculture and community food cooperatives
And what is success? Success is an edible future, when local populations are fed by local fields and sensible nutrition is affordable and accessible. Where we address poverty and hunger, not with biotechnology, but with long-term access to the means of production, and with proximity to that productive plenty which we can achieve only with careful stewardship of our soil and land base -- a wealth immeasurable in dollars. Success is a smooth energy transition, a satisfying daily bread, a culture in which we have restored honor, and respect to the profession of farming.
Call to arms
Arms strong and hands calloused, eyes open to the beauty of every morning. Our spirits are prepared for the long row still to hoe, our hearts full with the support of family and community. Let us unite, young farmers! Let us fight for the right to farmable land! To the pursuit of an equitable marketplace, and for recognition from society. We are here, we are indispensable, we are a cornerstone of the future of food. Let us welcome many new entrants into agriculture, striving to share our lessons, seeds and stories with generations to come. Now is the time for action.
posted on Grist.
Coast to coast, thousands of people are inspired to dig in and grow food! Yet access to the land, capital, market savvy, and skills requires for successful farming is available only to a dauntless few. Those few are brave, strong, and delightful advocates of the purposeful life, but it will take more than a few to reclaim a food system of industrial monocultures, labor abuse, and toxic factory conditions. This is the injustice our movement seeks to repair.
Indeed, it will take the muscle and heart of a large-scale, young-farmers movement: thousands upon thousands of hands on the land -- the hands of women and immigrants, the hands of fourth-generation farm kids, the hands of college graduates and former farmworkers-turned-farmers. It will take thousands of new growers of fruits, nuts, vegetables, grains, dairy, and livestock to transform the landscape of sprawling development and corporate control into a dignified, livable, and culturally rich mosaic of ecological farming.
The young farmers now emerging onto the land seek to reclaim, restore, and resettle the deserted rural towns of America. We are similarly poised to revive the fabric of urban life with markets, gardens, bees, corn patches and waterways. Motivated by a force of intention that cannot be rationalized economically, with lives driven by an instinct for direct action and stewardship that honors the planet, people, and place, we are the allies of every American. Our instincts are emboldened by the mercury shatter of dew on the broccoli plants at dawn, by the roar of pollinators in a flowering crop of buckwheat, and by the river of neighbors streaming through the farm-gate clamoring for "real" tomatoes and happy chickens. The hands of young farmers on the land seek to push forward an agenda of sustainability on a human scale.
There is much to learn, and there is much, as a culture, that we risk forgetting. We need these bodies, we need their work, we need their food and their protagonism. We need young farmers to succeed and we need that success to be rewarded.
As fledgling farmers and activists within this community, we see these to be some of the key political, economic, and cultural requirements for that success:
* A hospitable policy environment that prioritizes a next generation of food producers -- not massive corporate subsidies, not cheap imports from across the world
* A regulatory framework friendly to smaller producers
* Affordable credit for capitalization of diversified farms
* Public-private partnerships to give aspiring farmers better access to farmland
* University research focused on low-input, resilient, sustainable production
* Practical, school-based, agricultural training programs (hands in the soil)
* Reformed land-use proscriptions at the community and state level -- some land and soil should never be developed
* Incubator farms to rear and train fledgling farmers and an Agricultural Journeymen program to help people navigate the path from aspiring farmer to successful new farmer.
* Processing infrastructure and facilities for fruits, meats, dairy, etc. at the local scale
* State-sponsored direct-marketing venues -- covered markets, public markets, and friendly zoning for farmers markets and farm-stands
* Comprehensive, affordable health insurance for farmers and food-workers
* Improved state-sponsored nutrition programs for at-risk, elderly and civic establishments.
* Start-up grants and an expansion of Individual Development Accounts, matched-savings program for qualified young farmers, to afford irrigation, tools, equipment, fencing, land, production infrastructure, etc.
* A cultural revaluation of farming as an ambitious, worthwhile life-venture, celebrated by family, church, and society
* Fiscal underwriting of farm-supportive NGOs and programs
* Songs, dances, parties, and festivals for young farmers in the countryside
* High-speed internet connectivity in rural places
* New farmer forums for networking, marketing, resource-sharing, processing, and farmer-to-farmer exchanges
* Access to locally grown seed and protection from transgenic pollution
* Fair wages and equal labor rights for all farmworkers, even those with "illegal" status
* Consumer education about the realities and true cost of food production
* More consumer/producer alliances such as community supported agriculture and community food cooperatives
And what is success? Success is an edible future, when local populations are fed by local fields and sensible nutrition is affordable and accessible. Where we address poverty and hunger, not with biotechnology, but with long-term access to the means of production, and with proximity to that productive plenty which we can achieve only with careful stewardship of our soil and land base -- a wealth immeasurable in dollars. Success is a smooth energy transition, a satisfying daily bread, a culture in which we have restored honor, and respect to the profession of farming.
Call to arms
Arms strong and hands calloused, eyes open to the beauty of every morning. Our spirits are prepared for the long row still to hoe, our hearts full with the support of family and community. Let us unite, young farmers! Let us fight for the right to farmable land! To the pursuit of an equitable marketplace, and for recognition from society. We are here, we are indispensable, we are a cornerstone of the future of food. Let us welcome many new entrants into agriculture, striving to share our lessons, seeds and stories with generations to come. Now is the time for action.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008
so it's not just me
I get up every morning determined both to change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult.--E.B.White
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