Media Coverage - Page 20
Over the years, The Land Institute has been recognized in popular media coverage as a thought leader on a wide range of issues including agriculture, sustainability, culture, and more. More recently our perennial crop breeding and ecological intensification research are garnering coverage, and the newly formed ecosphere studies program is attracting attention. Feel free to peruse this chronological list of articles, or review the articles on a specific topic using the category filters.
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National Geographic: Our Good Earth…
Kudos given to TLI soil scientist Jerry Glover National Geographic, September 2008, pp 80-106. Land Institute scientist Jerry Glover is credited for his knowledge of soil and being “indispensable to…
Fields of the future: Perennial grains promise viable yields and soil conservation
Special Bonus Page. Reprinted with permission. Picture this: You’re a wheat grower from Kansas or Washington, or maybe a flax producer from Minnesota. When spring comes, your crops — like…
Smithsonian’s 35 Who Made a Difference: Innovators of our Time
We mark Smithsonian’s 35th anniversary by revisiting scientists, artists and scholars who’ve enriched the magazine — and our lives. Every genius, said the Danish writer Isak Dinesen, is doomed. She…
The Persian Gulf: Why are we there?
A Land Institute open forum June 24 & 26, 2003 The full PowerPoint presentation for this forum is available for download here: Download PowerPoint (5mb)
A Citizen’s Response to the National Security Strategy
THE NEW NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY published by the White House in September 2002, if carried out, would amount to a radical revision of the political character of our nation. Its…
A Citizen’s Response To the National Security Strategy of the United States
This abridged version of Wendell Berry’s essay appeared as a full-page advertisement in the New York Times on Feb. 9, 2003. An even shorter version for newspaper op-ed pages was…
Challenges Facing Kansans: Environmental, Economic and Political
A version of this article was presented as the Kansas Day Lecture at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, on January 29, 2001 On this date, 140 years ago, Kansas became…
Give Consumers Choice on Genetically Altered Food
As a consumer, do you believe that foods should be labeled if they contain genetically engineered (GE) ingredients? Congress is debating bills to require the labeling of such foods. But…
The Destructive Nature of Our Bountiful Harvests
According to an emerging school of thought in archaeology, “human-induced degradation of the environment” has played a far greater role in the fall of civilizations — from Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica…
A Story, as told by E.F. Schumacher
Published in E.F. Schumacher, 1999. Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered: 25 Years Later … With Commentaries. Hartley & Marks. March 1977 E.F. Schumacher visited The Land Institute at Salina,…
Two Stories
Released as a fund raising letter, Winter 1999. I have two stories. They may seem unrelated, but intertwined between them are personal problems, health problems, economic problems and ecological problems….
Why Does McPherson College Offer Only One Major and What Can Be Done About It?
Delivered at McPherson College, November 15, 1999 Don’t be offended by my chosen title. If I were giving this talk at Kansas Wesleyan or Bethany, Harvard or Stanford, Yale or…