Articles (on-line and print)

Celebrating the Culture of Food

National Trust Magazine, Autumn, 2008

His Royal Highness-Prince of Wales, on a subject close to his heart, "the production of food with integrity." Download pdf article.

Sea Change

The seafood we eat has an enormous impact on our health today and the health of our oceans tomorrow.
Article in Eating Well Magazine, April 2010, by Carl Safina. Download and read article.

Applied Phenology and Gardening
Karen Delahaut, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin - Madison

 Phenology is an area of science that has received a renewed interest in recent years. It can be defined as the timing of natural living processes with weather events. The return of various migratory songbirds, the blooming of wildflowers and woody landscape plants, and the development of locally indigenous insects are all examples of phenological events which are easily observed each spring in any location. Phenology observes the relationship between 1) discrete phenological events, 2) events and the season, 3) events and local weather conditions, and 4) events and climatic changes. Records of such natural events over a period of several years are helpful in determining climatic changes as well as any shifts in native plant or animal populations. Read more.

Learning from Past Civilizations

by Lester R. Brown

To understand our current environmental dilemma, it helps to look at earlier civilizations that also got into environmental trouble. Our early twenty-first century civilization is not the first to face the prospect of environmentally induced economic decline. The question is how we will respond.

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Affordable Health Insurance Elusive In Rural U.S.

by Howard Berkes, NPR June, 2009

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Michael Pollan on What's Wrong with Environmentalism

26 Jun 2008: Interview e-360

In an interview with Yale Environment 360, best-selling author, Michael Pollan talks about biofuels and the food crisis, the glories of grass-fed beef, and why environmentalists must look beyond wilderness to sustainability. Weblink

What's Wrong With What We Eat

In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what's wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it's putting the entire planet at risk.  Video Link

Books

We Want Real Food

Why our food is deficient in minerals and nutrients – and what we can do about it
Author:  Graham Harvey

You Can’t Eat GNP

Economics as if ecology mattered

Author:  Eric A. Davidson

What Einstein Told His Cook

Author:  Robert L.  Wolke

Water Follies

Groundwater pumping and the fate of America’s fresh waters
Author:  Robert Glennon

Dirt

The erosion of civilization
Author:  David R. Montgomery

The Earth Knows My Name

Food, culture, and sustainability in the gardens of ethnic Americans
Author:  Patricia Klindienst

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

A year of food life
Author:  Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver

In Defense of Food

An Eater’s Manifesto
Author:  Michael Pollan

Food Fight

The Citizen’s Guide to a Food and Farm Bill
Author:  Daniel Imhoff
Forward by Michael Pollan

Putting Food By

4th Edition: Newly Revised
Authors:  Janet Greene, Ruth Hertzberg and Beatrice Vaughan

Local Going

Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age
Author:  Michael H. Shuman

Omnivore’s Dilemma

A Natural History of Four Meals
Author: Michael Pollan

Kitchen Literacy

How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get It Back
Author: Ann Vileisis

Emerald City

An Environmental History of Seattle
Author: Matthew Klingle