Wendell Berry’s weapons of mass destruction
Wendell Berry has a massively ambitious plan to save the earth with humility and simple living. Photo: Guy Mendes. I’m pretty sure that in his now-famous press briefing of Feb. 12, 2002, Defense...
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What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth by Wendell Berry, foreword by Herman E. Daly, Counterpoint, 193 pp., $14.95 Wendell Berry is like Howard Stern — you either love him or you have no...
View ArticleTwitter will set you free to Occupy
Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere by Paul Mason, Verso, 237 pp., $19.95. I’m pretty conflicted about computers and the Internet these days. On the one hand, I run an internet magazine, build websites for...
View ArticleSeeing Berry’s Wilderness again
The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky's Red River Gorge by Wendell Berry, North Point Press, San Francisco 1991, 248pp, $15. In the early ’90s I made the conscious decision to drop out of college. I...
View ArticleFarewell to empire
Some nice Yankees up in Vermont are ready to go all Stonewall Jackson on the United States. Peacefully, of course. Photo: ohiorepublic.blogspot.com. For one of America’s smallest states, Vermont has a...
View ArticleWendell Berry: Forget about big solutions to ecological emergency
Wendell Berry does few TV interviews, so fans have welcomed his recent appearance with Bill Moyers. Photo: Vimeo. “We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not,” Wendell Berry...
View ArticleWhy the world needs Transition
New Economy interactive infographic from New England Transition. Click and explore. There are many approaches to the three main crises threatening civilization today, namely, climate change, peak oil...
View ArticleWendell Berry’s Jayber Crow and the loving community
What I saw now was the community imperfect and irresolute but held together by the frayed and always fraying, incomplete and yet ever-holding bonds of the various sorts of affection. There had maybe...
View ArticleA two-century fight for the small, the local and the beautiful
Wendell Berry comes from a venerable tradition of Southern Agrarians. Photo: Center for Interfaith Relations/Flickr. Twentieth-century America witnessed the blossoming of Agrarianism as an intellectual...
View ArticleLocal economy or local-washing?
When a national corporation urges you to buy local, should you listen? Photo: Paul Swansen/Flickr. “Local” has become a buzzword. Today there’s eco-localism, local food and local farming, local media...
View ArticleWendell Berry’s weapons of mass destruction
Wendell Berry has a massively ambitious plan to save the earth with humility and simple living. Photo: Guy Mendes. I’m pretty sure that in his now-famous press briefing of Feb. 12, 2002, Defense...
View ArticleAs farms go, so go the cities
What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth by Wendell Berry, foreword by Herman E. Daly, Counterpoint, 193 pp., $14.95 Wendell Berry is like Howard Stern — you either love him or you have no...
View ArticleTwitter will set you free to Occupy
Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere by Paul Mason, Verso, 237 pp., $19.95. I’m pretty conflicted about computers and the Internet these days. On the one hand, I run an internet magazine, build websites for...
View ArticleSeeing Berry’s Wilderness again
The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky's Red River Gorge by Wendell Berry, North Point Press, San Francisco 1991, 248pp, $15. In the early ’90s I made the conscious decision to drop out of college. I...
View ArticleWendell Berry: Forget about big solutions to ecological emergency
Wendell Berry does few TV interviews, so fans have welcomed his recent appearance with Bill Moyers. Photo: Vimeo. “We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not,” Wendell Berry...
View ArticleWhy the world needs Transition
New Economy interactive infographic from New England Transition. Click and explore. There are many approaches to the three main crises threatening civilization today, namely, climate change, peak oil...
View ArticleWendell Berry’s Jayber Crow and the loving community
What I saw now was the community imperfect and irresolute but held together by the frayed and always fraying, incomplete and yet ever-holding bonds of the various sorts of affection. There had maybe...
View ArticleA two-century fight for the small, the local and the beautiful
Wendell Berry comes from a venerable tradition of Southern Agrarians. Photo: Center for Interfaith Relations/Flickr. Twentieth-century America witnessed the blossoming of Agrarianism as an intellectual...
View ArticleLocal economy or local-washing?
When a national corporation urges you to buy local, should you listen? Photo: Paul Swansen/Flickr. “Local” has become a buzzword. Today there’s eco-localism, local food and local farming, local media...
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