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Towards Sustainability: One Couple’s Working Model (Part II)

Thumbnail image for Towards Sustainability: One Couple’s Working Model (Part II) April 6, 2009 by Jonathan Wright

This is part 2 of a series of articles penned by Jonathan Wright, a Calgary area farmer and co-founder of one of the city’s first community supported agriculture programs. Jon operates a zero-emission farm called Thompson Small Farm near Carbon, Alberta with his partner Andrea.
Thompson Small Farm has different ideas about “sustainable” from those of [...]

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Towards Sustainability: One Couple’s Working Model (Part I)

Thumbnail image for Towards Sustainability: One Couple’s Working Model (Part I) March 30, 2009 by Jonathan Wright

Over the next few weeks, the New Resilient will be featuring several articles penned by Jonathan Wright, a Calgary area farmer and co-founder of one of the city’s first community supported agriculture programs. Jon operates a zero-emission farm called Thompson Small Farm near Carbon, Alberta with his partner Andrea.
I used to be a conservationist. [...]

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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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