Media Coverage - Page 23
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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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…
Analogy: A Driver and Natural Systems Agriculture
Natural Systems Agriculture represents a radical alternative to essentially all of the agricultural arrangements that dominate agricultural lands. Even our friends working in the general area of sustainable agriculture are…