"Our food, in the vision of the globalizers and the vision of the total economy, will come from wherever in the world it can be produced most cheaply, freeing American labor and land for higher uses. I frankly don’t know what higher use there is for labor and land than growing food" … Michael Pollan …
An Interview with The Maya Seed Ark Project founder Camila Martinez, who is establishing seed banks in Central America and educating Maya people about the risks of genetically engineered seeds Interview by Arty Mangan ARTY: Why is biodiversity important, and why specifically is the Maya region important? CAMILA: The Mezzo-American biological corridor, which the Maya …
Organic farming pioneer, Amigo Cantisano, is carrying on the work of Felix Gillet, the father of perennial agriculture in the West. The discovery of 100-year-old orchards has saved a wealth of fruit and nut genetics ARTY: Who is Felix Gillet and why is he important? AMIGO: Felix Gillet was an early settler of the gold …
Five organic movement and industry leaders discuss their vision, the potential risks and the pathways for organic agriculture to become the dominant farming system. What is Your Vision for Organic Food in the Next 20 Years? Bob Scowcroft: Responding to questions like this presumes some basic assumptions, like any one of us would have the …
By Nina Simons As I read about Sheryl Sandberg's new book, Lean In, with recent reviews in the Nation by Katha Pollitt and in the NYT Book Review by Anne-Marie Slaughter, I appreciated how each of them decries the immediate array of attacks on Sandberg from other women, and eschews women’s tendency toward a kind …
Greg Watson We offer our congratulations and gratitude to Board member Greg Watson upon his April appointment by Governor Deval Patrick as the Massachusetts Commissioner of Agriculture. A polymath, Greg has a deep background in food and farming issues and previously held the same post from 1990-1993. Most recently Greg was one of …
Hilary and Pete Giovale Bioneers inspires us to give generously. We first attended the conference in 2010. In 2011, as we prepared to attend the conference again, we braced ourselves for the experience being different (and not as spectacular) the second time. Happily, we were wrong. We came each day thinking we would …
Kenny Ausubel Reimagining Western Civilization that respects the wisdom of Nature Listen to Kenny's interview:
Resilience. Communities. Networks. Questions. Possibilities. Hopes. Challenges. By Scott Spann, Innate Strategies This is the second short glimpse into what we’re up to in this domain of “resilience” – who’s focusing on it, how and why. Last time we touched on “how”, and this time we’ll look at the “why” and a little of the …
Dateline smoke-filled room. Our esteemed media partner Mother Jones sent shock waves through the election landscape on September 17th with the release of a private videotape of Mitt Romney shot at a private Republican fundraiser. Romney dismisses 47% of the electorate as “victims” and freeloaders on “entitlements” of government aid such as food, education, and …