Wes Jackson
Author
Language
English
Description
In this essay collection, one of the foremost voices in sustainable agriculture sets out a new approach to farming and community engagement.
In these six compelling essays, Wes Jackson lays the foundation for a new farming economy grounded in nature's principles and located in dying small towns and rural communities. Exploding the tenets of industrial agriculture, Jackson seeks to integrate food production with nature in a way that sustains...
In these six compelling essays, Wes Jackson lays the foundation for a new farming economy grounded in nature's principles and located in dying small towns and rural communities. Exploding the tenets of industrial agriculture, Jackson seeks to integrate food production with nature in a way that sustains...
Author
Language
English
Description
Re-connecting to the land and living in harmony with the natural environment are the twin touchstones of this eloquent advocacy of sustainable agriculture. Jackson says that only by returning to nature's roots can we see a valid way out of the fossil fuel farm, which breeds costly high technology, ecological damage and bankrupt small farmers.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Confronting harsh ecological realities and the multiple cascading crises facing our world today, An Inconvenient Apocalypse argues that humanity's future will be defined not by expansion but by contraction. For decades, our world has understood that we are on the brink of an apocalypse--and yet the only implemented solutions have been small and convenient, feel-good initiatives that avoid unpleasant truths about the root causes of our impending...
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Featuring live action and animation, this movie examines the history and current state of the living organic matter that we come from and will later return to.
