Wes Jackson

Podcast from the Prairie: The Restless and Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson https://t.co/N4F0KTNDlk (via https://t.co/WyvZg9FxaN) pic.twitter.com/HLxUKpyWi8

— Post Carbon Institute (@postcarbon) March 13, 2021

Wes Jackson and David Orr

In the fifth episode of the #SchumacherConversations podcast, Wes Jackson and David Orr consider the role of politics in transforming the food system, the economic conditions necessary for an inclusive back-to-the-land movement, and more.

Listen here:https://t.co/6Igel2hLho

— Schumacher Center for a New Economics (@Center4NewEcon) November 25, 2020

Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, Mary Berry in Conversation

Schumacher Center for New Economics (Resilience)



Related: "It All Turns on Affection"

The Problem of Agriculture by Robert Jensen

Resilience

Discussion of Farmland Access with Sjoerd Wartena and Veronique Riofol

Post by Schumacher Center for a New Economics.

Call for a Revolution in Agriculture by Wes Jackson

First Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures - Schumacher Center for a New Economics

The Conversation: Wes Jackson

Episode 22



Related:
Episode 18 with David Korten
Episode 19 has Joseph Tainter on the topic of collpase, as one would guess. Andrew Keen.



More videos with Andrew Keen:
The Gregory Mantell Show -- The Cult of the Amateur
TEDxDanubia 2011 - Andrew Keen - Digital Vertigo
Andrew Keen: Fear Facebook and the social web
Triangulation 56: Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen vs. Robert Scoble - LeWeb London 2012 - Plenary 1

His website.
One on One: Andrew Keen, Author of ‘Digital Vertigo’
Andrew Keen: Why 1984 Is Upon Us (Digital Vertigo)

Digital Vertigo

WES JACKSON on the Biggest Threat to America's Food Supply

From 2010

Items of Interest, 17 May 2012

The Tactical Virtues of Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor : The Jack Donovan Interview

Thomas Fleming, The Inalienable Right to Porn

BETA NATION


Russell Kirk and Swords of Imagination

Glory Days: A pundit’s rosy view of the Pax Americana by Andrew J. Bacevich

The Reserved Powers of the Tenth Amendment by Marshall DeRosa

The Tyranny of Liberalism

From July 4, 2010: Skoble's DELETING THE STATE, a review on this Fourth of July

Predator Nation: America as a Shining Drone Upon a Hill by Tom Engelhardt
On Staring Death in the Face and Not Noticing

WILLIAM ASTORE, The National Security State Wins (Again)

GARETH PORTER, The Parchin “Stand-Off”

Lawrence Auster on Buchanan: he overreaches in attempting to read the souls of Buchanans and others on the "right"; I don't think he substantiates the claim that he is different from them in articulating goals and being sad (as opposed to being Nero taking glee in the burning of Rome).

Uncommon Knowledge: Thomas Sowell on the Vulgar Pride of Intellectuals


How Ron Paul is Winning

The Devil Is in the Details by Scott P. Richert (a review of Timothy Stanley's bio of PJB) (via Conservative Heritage Times)

Issa to Holder: Waiting for Fast and Furious documents like waiting for godot

Urban Design and Architecture:
KunstlerCast#205: Prominent New Urbanist Authors (mp3)
A CNU Panel on Classic, Current and Critical New Urbanist Writing

The Social Factor in Sustainable Architecture by Marcin Gerwin (EB)

America's Demographic Future:
Aaron Wolfe, Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Honkers
Vox: Game Over

Economics:
Chris Martenson, Get Ready, We're About to Have Another 2008-Style Crisis

John Williams: The Real Unemployment Rate: 22% – Not 8.1%
The coming fiscal cliff: hyperinflation on track for 2014

Fabius Maximus: Is there a dark swan event ahead for the American economy?

Neo-Feudalism and the Iron Fist

Robb Wolf, The Paleo diet, Sustainability and Economic Growth

Kevin Carson Awarded C4SS’s Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory

FOOD: Tackling the Oldest Environmental Problem: Agriculture and Its Impact on Soil by Wes Jackson

The Next Money: As the Big Economies Falter, Micro-Currencies Rise

Festival of Transition:
In the shadow of the City: A walk through the history of the Corporation
What if... we cancelled the apocalypse
What if… we left the oil in the ground?
What if… land grabbing was banned?


Relocalization:
Jason Peters, Why I Am Not an Environmentalist
False Idyll by J.B. MacKinnon
Seeing only nurture in nature is missing half the point

6 Ideas for Sensible Homes
Small, supportive, affordable, recycled—and you can build your own.

On construction, cake, and local economic regeneration: why we should start with the materials by Rob Hopkins (EB)

Resilience or death: Preparing our farms for the end of agriculture (…as we know it) by Dan Allen

The commons law project: A vision of green governance by David Bollier (EB)

Back to the Land for the Occupy Movement by Jeff Conant (EB)

Food Authors, Writers and Academics Urge UC Berkeley to “Embrace the Gill Tract Farm, Not Police it”

How Small Groups Can Power Big Change by Sarah Byrnes
Progressive social movements don’t often take inspiration from conservative megachurches. But their lessons about organizational structure may be worth a second look.

Why such a lack of common sense about dogs? by Gene Logsdon (EB)

Shannon Hayes, Gainful Unemployment

Energy:
Jeffrey Brown responds to "U.S. energy independence is no longer just a pipe dream"

Translating "Peeking at Peak Oil" by Michael Lardelli (EB)

Commentary: Major oil companies on peak oil by Robert L. Hirsch

Clean Energy as Culture War

Free Energy Does Not Occur in Nature

Catholic:
Mexican Catholics Fight for Christ in Greater Glory

Fr. Uwe Michael Lang on Vernacular Translations

James Matthew Wilson, Misanthropy or Hymenopteraphilia? E.O. Wilson is Ant(i)-Gracehoper

التاسعة للسيدة في صلاة السحر لأَحد الأَعمى


Diet and Health:
MDA: Why We're Missing Out on Real Life

Bring Back Butter... and Cheese, Red Meat and Whole Milk! How Our Low-Fat Obsession May Harm Our Health, Says Nutritionist

Even Art of Manliness has joined the barefoot movement.
(Better than What to Wear on the First Date?)

NPR: Breasts Bigger and More Vulnerable to Toxins
The Thinking Housewife: Walking the Walk, and Breast Cancer Lies

Interview with ‘Wheat Belly’ Author Dr. William Davis

Adam Farrah, The Paleo Dieter's Missing Link

Latest in Paleo

Biological Clock Cannot Be Rewound

Music:
The Timless Traveled Treasures of Jordi Savall

Lonesome River Band


Lindsey Stirling - " Crystallize " Dubstep Violin (music video HD)


Nora Jane Struthers & The Bootleggers


Movies:
Eve Tushnet on Damsels in Distress: Guys and Ladies

TV:
There's A New Sheriff In Town: Dennis Quaid
By Joe Leydon




Julianne Hough on DWTS


Misc:
Me262 at the ILA2006 in Berlin (original sound)

Items of Interest, 9 March 2012

Russell Kirk in Time Magazine

Don’t Subsidize Sex — Or Anything Else by Daniel McCarthy

Kelley Vlahos, Tell the Truth Already (about Afghanistan)

Interview with Paul Gottfried (mp3)

Srdja Trifkovic, Putin's Victory

John Robb, You Don't Need a Cyber Attack to Take Down The North American Power Grid

Mona Charen, Gender Specific Writer (via VFR - see also A new leftist standard on speech is announced)

Fabius Maximus: The hidden dynamics of the 2012 campaign, and what it’s doing to America

After-birth abortion by Stratford Caldecott

Fighting for Women’s Freedom

Wes Jackson, Localism, and the Carbon-Based Community

Prophet and Loss
Environmentalist James Howard Kunstler has a new worry: "techno-narcissism"

Banks Repaid Fed Bailout With Other Fed Money: Government Report

Gardening Without a Garden

Counterpunch:
BRIAN CLOUGHLEY, Training the Afghan Army
KHADIJA SHARIFE, The Blood on Stratfor’s Hands


Peak Oil and Energy:
JOSEPH MANGANO AND JANETTE SHERMAN, The Dangerous Myths of Fukushima
Frontline: Japan's Nuclear Meltdown
No number crunching in Alan Kohler opinion piece on premature peak oil death by Matt Mushalik (EB)

Catholic:
NLM: Book Notice: The Voice of the Church at Prayer, Fr. Uwe Michael Lang
Zenit: Documents: Pius XII Favored a Jewish Homeland in Palestine
Foundation Continues to Unearth Testimony That Pius Was in No Way 'Hitler's Pope'

Sandro Magister, The America of Obama, or of Liberty Lost
Even in the homeland of law and democracy, freedom of conscience is in danger. This is the unprecedented accusation that the bishops are hurling against the president of the United States. Here is the confidential letter in which they explain why

Education:
Labor, Leisure, and Liberal Education by Mortimer Adler

History:
The Normans: Three Centuries of Achievement, AD 911-1204
Women's Rights in Early England
Holy Dover!: Castles, Crossbows and the Poor Man’s Trebuchet on the third fantastic episode of Battle Castle
A Social History of the Civil War

Courtship and Feminism:
Of sluts and sexual insecurity
CL: Not shaming sluts does not reduce the shame within sluts
Dalrock: Pathological denial and Treating her like a guy

SLPC is busy identifying bad websites for everyone's good. Dalrock: At least I’m banned in China. (IMF)

Men, Women, and Spatial Intelligence

Diet and Health:
The 3rd MovNat Principle: Universal
Ask the Low-Carb Experts: 9: ‘All Things Calories (Calories 101)’ | Mat Lalonde (mp3)
Saratoga High Toughens PE Program

Links of Interest, 9 February 2012

Rod Dreher, Obama Chose Feminists Over Religious Liberty
Patrick Buchanan, Obama Tramples on God's Turf

Planned Parenthood’s Grand Delusion, by William Murchison

Komen's Karen Handel quits after funding dispute
Komen Exec Quits Over Funding Flap
Former Susan G. Komen VP Karen Handel: Planned Parenthood "Hijacked This Great Organization"

"Court Strikes Down Ban on Gay Marriage in California"
The Ninth Circuit’s Desperate Targeting of Justice Kennedy by Matthew J. Franck

Climate Science Goes Megalomaniacal by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY
From last week: No global warming since 1997
'I Feel Duped on Climate Change'

Iran:
Philip Giraldi, All the Lies Fit to Print

Economics:
Uneconomics: a challenge to the power of the economics profession by William Davies (EB)

Richard Heinberg: Happiness is the ultimate economic indicator

Wee shall overcome: Tiny houses, big plans by Jessica Dur (EB)

Relocalization and Agrarianism:
Localization is the Economics of Happiness

Farmers Go Wild by Abby Quillen (EB)

Cold weather conundrum by Gene Logsdon (EB)

A day in the life of a Transitioner
Charlotte Du Cann, Transition Norwich Blog
(EB)

Wes Jackson, Forever Planting

The Benefits of Gratitude

RJ Snell, Creative Fidelity and Weighty People

10 Reasons to Become Self-Sufficient and 10 Ways to Get There

An interview with Michael Shuman from 2009. His
Local Dollars, Local Sense.
resilience.org

A Toast to Local Farmers with Michael Shuman from Robert Russell on Vimeo.

Woody Tasch and Michael Brownlee at the Wilkinson Public library


Energy:
Roger Ebert reviews Windfall (NYT)


ALAN FARAGO, Big Wind’s Inconvenient Truth

Obama's energy stool by Rolf E. Westgard

Diet and Health:
http://energybulletin.net/stories/2012-02-06/school-lunchrooms-put-planet-and-kids-risk

Christianity:
Let us be Human: Christianity for a collapsing culture by Sam Norton (EB)

Remembering the Jesus Seminar by Rev. George W. Rutler



Education:
Why Russell Kirk's Teaching Humane Literature in High Schools is MUST Reading
by Robert M. Woods

Items of Interews, 23 December 2011

Three Myths about the Detention Bill
If America is a Battleground, Nobody Has Any Rights
“Lawfare” – using the law to undermine the Constitution (a powerful tool in the quiet coup now in progress)

PATRICK COCKBURN, Iraq Trembles Amid Renewed Sectarian Violence

PJB, War with Iran? Make Congress Vote on It

John Robb, The Future of Drone Warfare

Economics:
Rob Hopkins, Can We Manage Without Growth, An Interview with Peter Victor Part Two
The power of sovereign economics: myth vs reality

Energy:
Occupying science: technology for the 99 percent by Erik Curren (EB)
The peak oil crisis: 2012 – apocalypse now? by Tom Whipple (EB)
John Michael Greer, Tweedledoom and Tweedledee

Farming:
Wes Jackson: A perennial revolution in agriculture by Ken Meter (EB)

Relocalization and the Simple Life:
Lindsay Curren, When down is up: Review of “The Power of Community”
Shannon Hayes, Reclaiming Christmas, Radical Homemaker-Style

Catholic:
Dom Alcuin Reid on Praying the Christmas Liturgy
Dominican Chant for Matthew's Genealogy of Jesus Christ
Tea at Trianon, New Book About Philip of Spain
Heavenly Music From Hildegard Of Bingen, A Soon-To-Be Actual Saint
St. Peter Canisius, Priest, Doctor, and the Second Apostle of Germany

Marianne Cope and ‘Lily of the Mohawks’ to be canonised
Pope Benedict XVI advances Causes of 20 men and women and recognises 64 martyrs of the Spanish Civil War

History:
Hong Kong's unwanted Christmas present By Ronan Thomas

Items of Interest, 13 December 2011

Peter Hitchens, David Cameron’s Phoney War, or A Curse in Disguise
Kelley Vlahos, Iraq: No Comfort in Being Right

Rod Dreher, Russell Kirk, stranger and prophet


FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Why the US & Israel May Agree to Bombing Iran

Fabius Maximus, Why Americans should love Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings – we live there

Distributism:
Some recent posts about "Distributism"
Christopher Ferrera, In Defense of Distributism
Why Socialism and Distributism are Wholly Antithetical

Relocalization:
John Robb, Contagion: The communication of disease from one person to another by close contact.

Transition branching out? Land reform: losing and recovering the Commons
by Justin Kenrick (EB)

Economics:
Economics and the Pursuit of Happiness
Rod Dreher, More on the cult of Wall Street
The Journey Home-Wilhelm Röpke & the Humane Economy by Roger Scruton
Commentary: Oil, climate, agriculture and learning to love limits by Sharon Astyk (original)

OWS:
Kevin Carson, Revolution 2.0: Is Occupy Reaching a Takeoff Point?

Peak Oil:
Talkin’ peak oil blues: The new KunstlerCast book
Top 10 Peak Oil Books of 2011

Water:
As Global Population Grows, Water Matters More - interview

Wes Jackson:
Can We Restore the Prairie—And Still Support Ourselves?

The Atomic Bombings:
The Least Evil Option: A Defense of Harry Truman (via MoJ)

Diet and Health:
Karen De Coster, Austrian Economics Meets Primal Blueprint?

Feminism:
The reduction of masculinity
Decoding the Female Happiness Paradox

Catholic:
Msgr. Gherardini: Vatican II is not a super-dogma
The importance and the limits of the authentic Magisterium

Marshall McLuhan & Chesterton: New Touchstone

Items of Interest, 5 November 2011

Obama: Regrettable Attack on Pakistan Not Deliberate
Fast and Furious Lies
Patrick Buchanan, Did FDR Provoke Pearl Harbor?
Jerry Salyer, Immigration, Loyalty, and Economy
New Wendell Berry Book - The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry
Paul Gottfried, The GOP is Useless
Anthony DiMaggio, A Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Alliance?

Economics:
Steve Keen: How He Saw "It" Coming, and Others Did Not

Relocalization:
The Local Food Shift Meets Occupy Boulder by Michael Brownlee (EB)

Farming:Organic Can Feed the World

The primal/paleo diet frowns upon grains, but I am not at the point at which I would condemn the work of Wes Jackson. Wes Jackson: A Perennial Revolution in Agriculture

Water:
The Parching of the West

Peak Oil and Energy:
How Saudi oil could start World War III
Excerpt: Lethal Trajectories
A Reality Check on U.S. Oil Imports and the Shale Revolution for Mortimer Zuckerman

Diet and Health:
200 Health Holiday Gift Guide Paleo Edition
Bacon-Wrapped Sweet Potato Bites
A short bit on the Gokhale Method - Focus on Posture May Ease Nagging Injuries
New Balance Minimus Shoe Initial Review

Catholic:
O Felix Roma - Ambrosian, Gregorian and Norbertine Chant (Schola Sainte Cecile)



Identity Crisis for the Neo-Catechumenal Way

Education:
Timeo Danaos Et Dona Ferentes*: Why teaching the Classics is still relevant in today's world
Notes on Liberal Education and Eastern Christianity

Feminism:
It was him or me, says the first female soldier to kill in combat who shot Taliban SEVEN times

Daniel McInerny on David Mamet: The Film Director and The Noble Savage

Items of Interest, 29 September 2011

Lewis McCrary, Facebook as digital passport?

As the earth turns: Going global with perennial polyculture agriculture
by Robert Jensen


Welcome to the Social Reporting Project! by Charlotte Du Cann (EB)

A Barn Full of Bats by Gene Logsdon (EB)

Green economy: fix our 'ends' not just our 'means' by Olivia Bina (EB)

Liquidity Networks: local trading systems using a debt-free electronic currency
Graham Barnes (EB)

Where Does Money Come From?



Facing economic insecurity together by Thomas Atwood

Paleo diet or 'caveman' diet gains traction despite controversies; 'This is not Fred Flintstone'



Benchmade’s Newest Battle Blade Is Ready for Abuse

Basic Training: The Making of a Soldier, React to Contact

Basic Training: The Making of a Soldier, React to Contact from Fort Benning Television on Vimeo.

English Baroque Soloists
The Project
Sir John Eliot Gardiner: The British conductor on his Bach Pilgrimage with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists

How much paleo diet advocacy?

I was reading Katherine Dalton's Eating for Another Fifty (Centuries); I had been a supporter of the work of The Land Institute in the past, but now that I've rejected grains...

Some people may be able to stay healthy with a diet that includes grains, but should grains be kept as a staple simply because they are a cheaper source (especially with regards to resource inputs) of energy? (Is this really true?)  It seems to me that permaculture can be used to produce the food for a paleo diet, but how much land would be necessary to support one family?

Urban Permaculture Guild

Food: Tackling the oldest environmental problem: Agriculture and its impact on soil
Wes Jackson, Energy Bulletin

I want to talk about the 10,000-year-old problem of agriculture and how it is both necessary and possible to solve it. Were it necessary but not possible this idea would be grandiose, and were it possible but not necessary it would be grandiose. But it has passed the test of grandiosity.

(original)

Items of Interest, 14 July 2010

Rod Dreher, Coming: BP's methane volcano? and io9, Methane bubble "doomsday" story debunked
Rod Dreher, Monsanto's genetically-modified Eucharist
CHT, Obama the Liar on Free Trade

Mark Richardson on the link between liberalism and multiculturalism: Identity lite.

John Robb, JOURNAL: A Mechanism for Economic and Political Concentration

Steve Sailer, How to get into college

Energy Bulletin:
The 50-year farm bill (original)

Wes Jackson, Solutions

We need new strategies for agriculture that emphasize efficient nutrient use in order to lower production costs and minimize negative environmental effects. The trouble is, the best soils on the best landscapes are already being farmed. Much of the future expansion of agriculture will be onto marginal lands where the risk of irreversible degradation under annual grain production is high. As these areas become degraded, expensive chemical, energy, and equipment inputs will become less effective and much less affordable.

Fireflies In July (original)
Gene Logsdon, OrganicToBe.org

Most of us have only a little knowledge of the awesome events going on in nature right around us all the time. That’s why we must ceaselessly travel in search of distraction far and wide. There are wonders at work right under our noses but we don’t notice. It is even more lamentable now that we have abandoned the real world for the electronic world.

Counterpunch:
Ellen Brown, How Brokers Became Bookies
Mark Weisbrot, Exacerbating the Crisis in the Eurozone
Jonathan Cook, Remote-Controlled Killing
Dean Baker, Reckless Drilling: BP's Carnage
Deepak Tripathi, The Dwindling of Afghanistan's Coalition of the Willing

John Todd visits The Land Institute

Back to our roots (original)

John Todd, Solutions

Last September I attended the Prairie Festival at The Land Institute in Salinas, Kansas. At the institute, Wes Jackson and his colleagues are undertaking one of the most important agricultural research projects in the world. They have gone back to first principles and are breeding new grain crops that are perennials rather than annuals...They have taken the long view.

The Land Institute

(source)
35 Who Made a Difference: Wes Jackson
"The Genius of Place"

Fora.TV: Wes Jackson: The Next 50 Years on the American Land

CityBeat Podcast 44: Wendell Berry (original)

Stephen Carter-Novotni, CityBeat

Philosopher-farmers Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson and Gene Logsdon discuss the future of agriculture, the environment and changing our ideas about growth and progress.

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