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North American Agriculture: A crisis in awareness and participation

Thumbnail image for North American Agriculture: A crisis in awareness and participation April 3, 2009 by Jon Steinman

The following article is Deconstructing Dinner host Jon Steinman’s reflections on the talk given by farmer, author and photographer Michael Ableman’s in February of this year in Nelson, British Columbia. The talk can be found here.

Michael Ableman is a farmer, author and photographer.
His interest to change the way in which North Americans access food [...]

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Coal, Wendell Berry, Bill McKibben and the new civil disobedience

February 1, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

There is an updated website for the event at Capitol Climate Action.
On March 2nd, scholar and author Bill McKibben and writer/farmer/activist Wendell Berry are organizing a mass act of “civil disobedience” against a coal-fired powerplant in Washington D.C. near the White House. This could be the first large non-violent demonstration against climate change in history, [...]

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