Big ideas and the harsh deadline of climate change
SALINA, Kan. — Bill McKibben didn’t always make a habit of getting arrested. He was a wunderkind, a Harvard graduate who became a staff writer at the New Yorker at…
Rena Detrixhe’s ‘Red Dirt Rug’ shares landscape of Oklahoma
Salina-based artist Rena Detrixhe spent Friday creating a “Red Dirt Rug” that embodies the history of humanity’s relationship with the nature of a certain state. Detrixhe imprinted the rug on…
Perennial crops on view during research tour
In recent months, the institute captured headlines for its progress commercializing perennial wheat — technically, in this case, an intermediate wheatgrass — produced under an identity-preserved system and trademarked with…
A Countercultural Agriculture
Last weekend, along the high banks of the Smoky Hill River a few miles south of Salina, Kansas, more than a thousand revolutionaries from all over the country gathered to…