Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Items of Interest, 7 July 2010

Daniel Larison, Pre-Existing Rights
Joseph Pearce, The Education of E. F. Schumacher

Energy Bulletin:
Pancakes from perennial wheatgrass grain (original)
Gene Logsdon, OrganicToBe.org

Wes Jackson, the celebrated plant geneticist, author, farmer (and years ago a fairly good football player), has been experimenting for decades now with the bold idea that perennial grains can be developed to take the place of annual grains, thus revolutionizing agriculture by making it unnecessary for so many millions of acres to be cultivated annually. I raise my forkful of wheatgrass pancake and I salute you, Mr. Jackson.

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