Perspectives on India:
Why Dream Borrowed Dreams (S. Visvanathan) Mad for Mumbai (C. Taylor) Letter from India (A. Kapur)In the News:
Organic farming in India led by Navdanya (June 2011) Feeding the world with sustainable farming (March 2011) Bike sharing in Mumbai! (Feb. 2011) The impact of endosulfan in Kerala (Jan. 7, 2011) Problems with microcredit (Jan. 5, 2011) The many layers of poverty in India (Nov. 18, 2010) U.S. Supports India for U.N. Security Council (Nov. 8, 2010) On Kashmir (Nov. 8, 2010) Obama in India (Nov. 7. 2010) Environmentalist Hindu sect (Oct. 7, 2010) A new language found in India (Oct. 5, 2010) Monkeys on patrol at Commonwealth Game, New Delhi (Sep. 29, 2010)My Reading List (suggestions welcome!):
Silent Spring (Rachel Carson) Food First (Raj Patel) Biopiracy The Violence of the Green Revolution (Vandana Sheeva) Stolen Harvest (Vandana Sheeva) Soil Not Oil (Vandana Sheeva) Our Stolen Future (Theo Colborn) A Sand County Almanac (Aldo Leopold) The One-Straw Revolution (Masanobu Fukuoka) The Gift of Good Land (Wendell Berry)
The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (Masanobu Fukuoka)
Hey Jason- Thanks!! Someone else recommended that book to me here as well. It’s in the school’s library so I’m planning to go get it at some point.
How’s life in Hendricks Hall? Anything new? Good to hear from you!
Hi Lindsey- I dig the blog, you’re a great writer! Life in Hendricks hasn’t changed much, although they did move the basement fridge.
One might think a book about growing oranges and rice naturally would lack in pizazz, but The One-Straw Revolution is a real page-turner.
Just finished “The Gift of Good Land”, inspiring book, can’t believe I never read any Wendell Berry before, nice reading list choice.
A couple more for you to consider…Natural Capitalism (Hawken and Lovins)…a bit dry and lacking Berry’s great prose, but outlines a nice industrial/agricultural methodology where inputs become outputs and outputs become inputs creating a low waste/no waste process
…and…
Ecofeminism (Shiva/Mies)…a nice essay style co-write linking feminist philosophy and sustainable ecological practices.