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  • Nature as Measure

    The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson

    by Wes Jackson ...
    An essential and timely collection of wise and compelling essays from one of the longtime leaders of the sustainable agriculture movement in America.Wes Jackson, “a well–known and admired advocate for sustainability especially as it relates to agriculture, has the rare ability to transform his convictions into captivating prose . . . Jackson’s thoughts are still as significant and profound as they ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Hogs Are Up

    Stories of the Land, with Digressions

    by Wes Jackson ...
    Hogs Are Up: Stories of the Land, with Digressions reveals what makes Wes Jackson tick. What kind of lessons does he draw from his unique life experiences, and how do they shape his profoundly revolutionary worldview? Sometimes funny, sometimes wistful, always insightful, this volume demonstrates that when telling a good story, digressions can be the main point. Born during the Great Depression, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Consulting the Genius of the Place

    An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture

    by Wes Jackson ...
    Locavore leaders such as Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and Barbara Kingsolver all speak of the need for sweeping changes in how we get our food. A longtime leader of this movement is Wes Jackson, who for decades has taken it upon himself to speak for the land, to speak for the soil itself. Here, he offers a manifesto toward a conceptual revolution: Jackson asks us to look to natural ecosystems—or, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Becoming Native to This Place

    by Wes Jackson ...
    In six compelling essays, Wes Jackson lays the foundation for a new farming economy grounded in nature's principles and located in dying small towns and rural communities. Exploding the tenets of industrial agriculture, Jackson seeks to integrate food production with nature in a way that sustains both. His writing is anchored in his work with The Land Institute, lending authenticity to topics that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Becoming Native to This Place

    by Wes Jackson ...
    Series series Blazer Lectures
    In this essay collection, one of the foremost voices in sustainable agriculture sets out a new approach to farming and community engagement.In these six compelling essays, Wes Jackson lays the foundation for a new farming economy grounded in nature's principles and located in dying small towns and rural communities. Exploding the tenets of industrial agriculture, Jackson seeks to integrate food ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Sustaining the Land

    by Wes Jackson ...
    Narrated by Michael Toms ...

    Unabridged

    56 min

    Re-connecting to the land and living in harmony with the natural environment are the twin touchstones of this eloquent advocacy of sustainable agriculture. Jackson says that only by returning to nature's roots can we see a valid way out of the fossil fuel farm, which breeds costly high technology, ecological damage and bankrupt small farmers. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Inconvenient Apocalypse

    Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity

    by Wes Jackson, Robert Jensen ...
    Confronting harsh ecological realities and the multiple cascading crises facing our world today, An Inconvenient Apocalypse argues that humanity’s future will be defined not by expansion but by contraction.For decades, our world has understood that we are on the brink of an apocalypse—and yet the only implemented solutions have been small and convenient, feel-good initiatives that avoid unpleasant ... Read more

    $18.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    An Inconvenient Apocalypse

    Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity

    by Wes Jackson, Robert Jensen ...
    Narrated by Graham Rowat ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 10 min

    For decades, our world has understood that we are on the brink of an apocalypse—yet the only implemented solutions have been small and convenient, feel-good initiatives that avoid unpleasant truths about the root causes of our impending disaster. Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen argue that we must reconsider the origins of the consumption crisis and the challenges we face in creating a survivable ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • A Conversation Between Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson

    by Mary Berry, Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.At the 36th Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures Mary Berry–Executive Director of The Berry Center–moderated a conversation between Berry and Jackson, during which they discussed the urgent problems that farmers are facing and the deep cultural divide ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Call For A Revolution In Agriculture

    by Wes Jackson, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Wes Jackson points to agriculture—in particular to the methods of till agriculture, which cause soil loss and destroy the soil's water-holding capacity—as our "number one environmental problem, aside from nuclear war" (and today he would undoubtedly ... Read more

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  • Becoming Native To This Place

    by Wes Jackson, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Co-founder of The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, and pioneer in sustainable agriculture, Wes Jackson is here too a pioneer—for sustainable communities. Years of seeing the harm done to his beloved prairies through the implementation of corporate ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Bioneers Series 2-05: Tree of Knowledge - Tree of Life: Towards an Agriculture of Relationships

    by Joel Salatin, Fred Kirschenmann, Wes Jackson ...
    Narrated by Michael Toms ...

    Unabridged

    29 min

    Agriculture, or industrial farming, as it is practiced today, may be the single most destructive human activity against the Earth that we currently employ. In response, a movement toward Restorative Farming, that looks to nature for its direction, is gaining momentum. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus