Posts Tagged ‘fred kirschenmann’

David Korten: Capitalism’s Threat to Democracy, part 2 (video)

David Korten: Capitalism’s Threat to Democracy, part 2 (video)

David Korten, author, and co-founder of Yes! magazine shares his views on the importance of building local, community-based economies.

A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings-Part 2 (video)

A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings-Part 2 (video)

Cummings believes a handful of global agrichemical companies are threatening the livelihoods of farmers.

A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings-Part 4 (video)

A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings-Part 4 (video)

In Claire Hope Cummings book, Uncertain Peril, she writes about the importance of preserving biodiversity, and native plant species.

A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings-Part 3

A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings-Part 3

Claire Hope Cummings, in this third segment of interviews hones in upon the essential problems plaguing our agriculture system, she argues is a direct result of the industrialization of agriculture. “Our bodies are not machines”, Cummings reminds us, all the parts of a biological (agriculture) system must remain healthy if we are to produce healthy [...]

A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings

A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings

Permaculture: the use of ecology as the basis for designing integrated systems of food production, housing, appropriate technology, and community development. Permaculture is built upon an ethic of caring for the earth and interacting with the environment in mutually beneficial ways. —National Sustainable Information Service (ATTRA) In this 4-part series, journalist, environmentalist, and author of [...]

Fred Kirschenmann: The Future of Agriculture— An Introduction

Fred Kirschenmann: The Future of Agriculture— An Introduction

Fred Kirschenmann, a long-time leader in the sustainable agriculture movement, Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, and a third-generation farmer (an organic farmer himself), offers some thoughtful reflections upon the future of agriculture. Kirschenmann points out that much of what made modern industrial agriculture possible, depended upon relatively mild and stable climate [...]