Center for Environmental Literacy
For May, the Center for Environmental Literacy offers several articles of interest:via EB
The Challenge of Peak Oil by Richard Heinberg
In this month's Thinking outside the Lunchbox essay, author Richard Heinberg reviews evidence of limitations on our ability to continue producing oil at the rates demanded by growing economies. Because of the climatic consequences, oil can't just be replaced by other fossil fuels, nor is it likely that renewable sources can fully meet current levels of energy use. A lower-energy way of life is possible, he believes, but only through a "coordinated effort on a scale not seen before in human history." Education for sustainable living means assessing such arguments and imagining their implications for food, transportation, and every other oil-dependent aspect of our lives.
You Are What You Grow: Will This Year's Farm Bill Make Us Fatter and Sicker? by Michael Pollan
According to journalist and author Michael Pollan, "The Farm Bill essentially treats our children as a human disposal for all the unhealthful calories that the Farm Bill has encouraged American farmers to overproduce." The first step toward changing this situation, he suggests, is to stop thinking that the Farm Bill is about "farming" and start viewing it as an opportunity to "[align] agricultural policy with our public health and environmental values...with incentives to produce food cleanly, sustainably, and humanely."
New Barbara Kingsolver Book Explores Eating Locally
Best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver's first nonfiction narrative, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, chronicles her family's move to rural Virginia, committed to eat only food grown by themselves or in their neighborhood. During a 12-state book tour, the author will read at benefits for several regional sustainable agriculture organizations... Visit the Animal, Vegetable, Miracle website
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