Act: Inspiration

When we finally take the off ramp

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If you are in one of the cars rushing by on the freeway, your efforts are just as important as mine as a farmer to develop post-fossil fuel agriculture. Part of the solution is political. To a large extent, the present rural landscape in much of America is the result of federal policy that subsidizes massive production of just a few, easily industrialized crops — corn, soybeans, wheat. This policy has caused the loss of soil, biodiversity, localized food markets and farmers, resulting in a fragile system dependent on increasingly tight and insecure supplies of petroleum.

Food & agriculture – Aug 28

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– Alice Waters: Slow food nation

– One thing to do about food: A forum

  (Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, Wendell
  Berry, Winona LaDuke, Dr. Vandana Shiva…)

– Stewards of wine land (sustainable vinyards)

– California seeks to clear hemp of a bad name

– Black farms, black markets

– Local food in small towns (interviews)

The New Frontier

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As an unusually long and sweltering heat wave enveloped the traditionally mild San Francisco Bay Area, power outages knocked out air conditioning, and gas prices under $3.00 a gallon seemed like leisure suits or vinyl LPs, relics of a long forgotten era, those who have been warning of the consequences of global warming and the eventual decline of a fossil fuel-based life felt an awkward sense of vindication.