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Summer 2000 Issue - Table of Contents
Food for Life
The Brink of Opportunity
by Hal Hamilton
Industrial agriculture is a parody of the life-sustaining farming
practiced over thousands of years. But there are signs of new life
Twenty Acres and a Hen
by Rachel Bagby
Rachel Bagby rediscovers her roots (in the soil) and learns about the creatures she shares it with
Hog Heaven
by Brian DeVore
There is an alternative to factory farms, and it makes everybody -
farmers, neighbors, consumers, and especially pigs - lots happier
New Life at the Roots
by Carol Estes
Farmers and consumers bypass industrial agriculture and work together to create a new American agriculture
Experimenting with Life
by David Suzuki
A geneticist says biotech experiments should be done in the lab - not on people or on fragile ecosystems
Wild Rice Moon
by Winona LaDuke
The ancient, wild rice-centered culture of Minnesota's Anishinaabeg people confronts cultivated "wild" rice
Farms of the Future
by Senator Byron Dorgan
Contrary to myths about the efficiency of corporate agriculture, family
farmers are the most efficient producers - and they produce much more
than food
Tomato Days
by Margot Ford McMillen
Farm auctions and bankruptcies are forgotten as neighbors with tomatoes and canning jars get together in a church basement
global shift
A Conscious Revolution by Sarah Ruth van Gelder
The ripple effect of the convergence born in Seattle and continued in Washington DC - democracy may yet prevail
heart & soul
Simplicity Double Speak by Vicki Robin
When big media attempts to horn in on the simplicity movement, author
and voluntary simplicity spokeperson Vicki Robin draws a line in the
sand
Indicators
~ Climate changing
~ Social investing hits new highs
~ Massachusetts fights for right to boycott Burma
~ Community-owned sports teams
~ Starbucks bows to activists and vows to trade fair
positive futures network news
From DC: A New Global Solidarity
by Frances F. Korten
Protestors put their bodies and hearts on the line for poor countries and international solidarity
YES! … But How?
by Annie Berthold-Bond & Doug Pibel
To water lawns or to xeriscape? That's the question. Plus green light bulbs and homemade moth balls departments
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