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Cultivating an ecological conscience : essays from a farmer philosopher /
Theologian, academic, and third-generation organic farmer Frederick L. Kirschenmann is a celebrated agricultural thinker. In the last thirty years he has tirelessly promoted the principles of sustainability and has become a legend in his own right. Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Culture of the land.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Editor's Introduction
- Preface
- Theological Reflections while Castrating Calves
- On Behalf of American Farmers
- Pilgrimage to a Barnyard
- Low-Input Farming in Practice
- A Transcendent Vision
- Expanding the Vision of Sustainable Agriculture
- The Role of Independent Beef Producers in Rural Development
- Foreword to Farming with the Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms and Ranches
- On Being an ""Objective"" Farmer
- Being at Home
- The Pleasure of Good Eating
- Is Sustainability in Our Energy Future?
- A Journey toward Sustainability
- On Learning to Farm Ecologically on the Prairie
- Can Organic Agriculture Feed the World? And Is That the Right Question?
- Biotechnology on the Ground
- Questioning Biotechnology's Claims and Imagining Alternatives
- Why American Agriculture Is Not Sustainable
- What Constitutes Sound Science?
- And Then What?
- Food as Relationship
- Is the USDA Accounting for the Costs to Farmers from Contamination Caused by Genetically Engineered Plants?
- Placing the Pew Commission Report in Context
- Redefining Sustainability
- What's an Education for?
- Resolving Conflicts in American Land-Use Values
- What About the Next Twenty Years?
- Rediscovering American Agriculture
- Spirituality and Cooperatives
- In Search of Objectivity, or How to Create a Credible Certification Program
- On Becoming Lovers of the Soil
- Challenges Facing Philosophy as We Enter the Twenty-first Century
- A Pig's Tale
- A Bright Future for ""Famers of the Middle
- Revitalizing Rural Communities
- Rethinking Food
- Using What We Know to Make a Difference
- Afterword
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index