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How do we change? How can we focus the efforts of responsible consumers, small farmers, environmentalists, authentic corporate citizens, labor and environmental and social activists to change the basis of our profit driven society? How will we feed our children's hungry stomachs, our soils, and our souls so that Spirit and humanity will transcend our insatiable greed and imbalanced need for material wealth and technological solutions?
readings of note:
Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture
Edited by Andre Kimball, 2002 by the Foundation of Deep Ecology
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture Wendell Berry, 1997
"A healthy farm culture…nourishes and safeguards human intelligence of the earth that no amount of technology can satisfactorily replace. The growth of such a culture was once a strong possibility in the farm communities of this country. We now have only the sad remnants of those communities. If we allow another generation to pass without doing what is necessary to enhance and embolden the possibility now perishing with them, we will lose it all together. Then we will not only invoke calamity but we will deserve it."
-Wendell Berry
Fast Food Nation, The Dark Side of the All American Meal
Eric Schlosser, 2002
Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic Traditions, Flavors, and Recipes
Corby Kummer, 2002
Lichens of North America
Brodo, Sharnoff, and Sharnoff, 2001
Mississippi Floods
Anuradha Mathur and Dilip Cunha, 2001
The Quilts of Gee's Bend Beardley, Arnett, Arnett, and Livingston, 2002
Metamorphoses: the Fiber Art of Judith Scott, Creative Growth Art Center, 1999
Green Business Strategy, Harvard Business School Press, 2007
The Cultural Creatives, Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson, 2000
Earth From Above: 365 Days, Yann Arthur Bertrant, 2001
Sustainable Fashion: Why Now? A Conversation about issues practices, and possibilities, Janet Hethorn, Connie Ulasewicz, 2008
Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis, 2009
