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Sustainable farming mania is frustrating me

By Erik Curren | September 4, 2013

farm display

I'm certainly no farmer. I work at a computer all day. So it's odd that the books that get me most jazzed up these days are not about the big problems of the day -- the economy or politics or climate and energy. They're about farming. For me, that's a real about face. I used to revel in the skulduggery of the Koch Brothers and scorn the subtleties of heirloom … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Transition Tagged With: community gardens, farming, Joel Salatin, Michael Pollan, urban farming

Cheer up — things really are as bad as you think

By Erik Curren | November 13, 2012

dark mountain

In last week's election, Obama may have been a better choice than the alternative, but no American president is likely to have much positive impact on climate change, peak oil and the worldwide economic crisis anytime soon. Given the sorry state of national governments, controlled as they are by rapacious corporations driven by the profit motive, there's little chance of either … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: local government, optimism, Paul Kingsnorth, pessimism, philosophy, urban farming

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