Farming is not adapted to large-scale operations because of the following reasons: Farming is concerned with plants and animals that live, grow, and die. – “Ancient” agricultural textbook (Cornell University, 1942) Social systems are not adapted to large-scale operations, because social systems are concerned with humans that live, grow, and die. Part of the problem…
Monthly Archives: September 2009
#EcoMonday And Living Green One Day A Week
Every Monday, a whole host of tweets go out under the tag #EcoMonday, #MeatlessMonday and #MeatFreeMonday. In #EcoMonday, people tweet what they’re reading, recommend other Twitter users to follow, and have conversations about sustainability, climate change, green living, and everything else “eco.” Tweeters in #MeatlessMonday and #MeatFreeMonday choose to eat no meat for a day,…
The Sustainable Agriculture Fad
“Yearning in the human soul to smell a flower, pet a pig, and enjoy food with a face has never been stronger,” preaches Joel Salatin, the man responsible for Polyface Farms, one of the best known working cases for commercially viable sustainable agriculture. I hope – no, pray – that he is correct. Because sometimes…
What Are Your Priorities?
The Washington Post has a very interesting, albeit buggy, little doodad: the POTUS tracker. It is a calendar that creates a graphical representation of how President Obama’s schedule. The idea is to generate a picture of what issues, groups and individuals are getting the President’s time and attention, to give the viewer a clearer impression…
