Book review Part 2 of The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Agriculture features An Amish Perspective by David Kline in which he tells us: “For the first 50 years after being deeded, the farm, with the high fertility of its woodland soils (Wooster silt loam), produced enough wealth for the family to prosper. Then starting around …
Book Review Introduction In Part 5 of Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed we learn that: “The ultimate solution to the social, economic, and ecological problems cited above is a transition to a more decentralized, democratic and cooperative, noncorporate, small-scale organic farming method, as practiced by traditional farming communities, agroecologists, and indigenous peoples …
THE ASCENT OF MAN JACOB BROWNOWSKI MACDONALD FUTURA PUBLISHERS 1973 PART VI Chapter 6: The Starry Messenger The first science in the modern sense that grew in the Mediterranean civilization was astronomy, the science that guides us through the cycle of the seasons. All settled cultures have a calendar to guide their plans. The …
BRUCE LANSDALE HONORARY DOCTORATE PART 7 THE POWER OF MYTH IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT BY Bruce M. Lansdale ATTITUDES TOWARD THE NATION The other myth which has been changing rapidly in my years in Greece relates to the attitude of the rural population to their country, to being Greek, to being a Greek Orthodox. …
THE END OF POVERTY HOW WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN IN OUR LIFE TIME JEFFREY SACHS PENGUIN BOOKS 2005 PART VI Chapter 5: Bolivia’s High-Altitude Hyperinflation Chapter 6: Poland’s Return to Europe Chapter 7: Reaping the Whirlwind: Russia’s Struggle for normalcy Chapter 8: China: Catching Up After Half a Millennium Chapter 9: India’s Market …
THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN 2005 PART I PART I: AGRARIAN AND RURAL PERSPECTIVES Introduction to Part 1: Agrarian and Rural Perspectives by Jules Pretty Part 1 of this Reader in Sustainable Agriculture focuses on seven agrarian and rural perspectives on agricultural sustainability by Albert Howard, Aldo …
Book Review Introduction In Part 4 of Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed we learn that: “This manifesto is the outcome of a joint effort among participants in the meetings of the International Commission on the Future of Food, held in late 2002 and early 2003 in Tuscany, Italy.” “We urge people and …
THE ASCENT OF MAN JACOB BROWNOWSKI MACDONALD FUTURA PUBLISHERS 1973 PART VI Chapter 6: The Starry Messenger The first science in the modern sense that grew in the Mediterranean civilization was astronomy, the science that guides us through the cycle of the seasons. All settled cultures have a calendar to guide their plans. The …
BRUCE LANSDALE HONORARY DOCTORATE PART 6 THE POWER OF MYTH IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT BY Bruce M. Lansdale MYTHS WHICH INFLUENCE THE NATION Two major aspects of people’s thinking have a very profound impact on their attitudes to their country and their sense of pride toward what the Greeks call patrida, something more …
THE END OF POVERTY HOW WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN IN OUR LIFE TIME JEFFREY SACHS PENGUIN BOOKS 2005 PART V Chapter 4: Clinical economics The rich world dominates the training of Ph.D. economists, and the students of rich-world Ph.D. programs dominate the international institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World …
