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Food – it’s literally everywhere, we need it to survive, and yet we know less about it today than ever before. The way food is planted, cultivated, harvested, distributed, prepared and consumed holds the power of life and death for our planet, people, health, and resources. A growing, spontaneous movement is afoot to re-educate ourselves about food and truly celebrate our culinary traditions, rather than just feel confused and guilty about what we’re supposed to eat. What follows is a fairly comprehensive blog and website roundup of the Sustainable Food movement – here you will find diverse-but-complimentary perspectives on how to start an urban (or suburban) garden, how to support regional farmers, what national and international policy changes would support health and freedom, who to connect with to recover local food varieties and swap recipes with – and who to party with!
Bon Appetit!
To Orient
I recommend you begin by viewing Food Systems in Nine Minutes, a brief KedgeForward presentation by Frank Spencer & I
Articles
The Nation’s Food Issue – An excellent starting point (see this summary)
Eating Right – The American Conservative (anytime our flagship progressive & conservative intelligencia publications agree on something, you know it must be true!)
Christianity Today on Global Hunger Crisis
Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food – Time Magazine
The Power of Food – Yes! Magazine
The Ethics of Eating – NPR
Become an Urban Homesteader – Reality Sandwich
Blogs & Resources
Abundant Nutrition with Brooke Evans
Animal Vegetable Miracle the book! The movement! By Barbara Kingsolver
Bread For The World National & global food policy
Center for Urban Education and Sustainable Agriculture
Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Culinate Eat to Your Ideal
Deconstructing Dinner Radio Show
Eating Well A documentary film exploring Christian perspectives on factory farming
The Ecological Farming Association
Ecological Farming Association
The Ethicurean Chew the right thing.
Feeding America Was Second Harvest; working within today’s corrupt food system to liberate excess so others might simply live
Finding Balance Eating, Image, and Life
The Food Pantry Peace on Earth & Food for All; helpful guidelines here
Hyperlocavore – Yardsharing Community
Holma 35 – Integral farm!
Heifer International “Ending hunger, Caring for the earth”
Journey to Forever – A plethora of resources
Local Harvest Find fresh tasty local food close to you!
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
Northwest Local Mandi: an exploration of local food and community in the Pacific Northwest
Organic Schmorganic “Debunking the Myth of Organic”
Organic Working Group of the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (see also CropWatch)
Raj Patel – see also his amazing three-year-long Stuffed & Starved blog
Slow Food Movement (See also Slow Food USA and the Slow Food Wikipedia article)
Soul Food with the Ecclesia Collective
Take This Bread by Sara Miles
The Snail – publication of Slow Food USA
True Food Network Calling attention to genetically modified foods
What Would Jesus Eat? with Lucas Land
World Community Cookbooks from the Mennonites
World Hunger and Poverty Scott Hughes, Hartford, CT
World Hunger Relief Sustainable Agriculture & Hunger Relief
The World Institute of Slowness
Documentaries
Bad Seed: The Truth About Our Food
The Greenhorns (see their blog)
Signs of Life Part 5 – Key Integral Blogs
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Mike here again, as Tim’s time in the Middle East continues this week – Brian McLaren has been writing some great updates from the trip by the way; you should check them out.
Today I’m going to introduce you to some of the most influential integral blogs. What is integral, you ask? It’s a way of seeing reality that attempts a comprehensive view of, well, everything, that’s open to – and indeed seeks to catalyze – growth. It’s become something of a movement, among specialists and non-specialists (Amateurs! Lovers!) alike. For more on integral theory, see this Wikipedia entry. Otherwise, read on…
This is a fairly comprehensive list of what I’ve found and read these last couple of years; if I have on gripe, it’s that intgrally-minded folks don’t blog nearly consistently enough. There are a ton of great blogs I had to omit simply because they haven’t updated since 2007. (I’m thinking Integral Life, or some such agency, should host a collaborative blog for voices with something to say but who don’t say things that often…) Anyway, dive right in – and feel free to nominate anyone I’m missing in the comments.
Creative Emergence – Michelle James
Indistinct Union – Chris Dierkes
Integral Journal – Matt Holbert
Mythos for Creatives - Manny Otto
Numinous Nonsense – Vincent Horn
Thank God For Evolution – Michael Dowd
Integral Practice Notes and The Integral Company – Tom Goddard
Other Notable Integral Sites
Integral Life (blog-ish archives here and here)
iEvolve: Global Practice Community
Want to follow some of these folks on Twitter? Go here. (Tim is @post_christian by the way. I’m @zoecarnate) Want more blogs? Go here – but some of these are quite out of date.
Happy reading!
Signs of Life Part 3 – Best Futurists’ Blog Roundup
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Greetings! Mike here again whilst Tim is in the Middle East. Today we’re going to look at some top futurist blogs. What’s a futurist, you ask? Futurism – or strategic foresight – is a social sciences discipline. It’s kind’ve like the mirror-image of history. Like history, which doesn’t determine what ‘actually happened’ (something rather impossible, not to mention undesirable given the rich array of perspectives that exist about any given moment of the past), futures (and its always plural) seeks to educate regarding possibilities thinking, a fully-funded imagination that can look at a range of possible future scenarios and pro-actively created desired futures in an empowering way. The reason that I got involved with the Presence families of ministries is largely because I’m a student of Strategic Foresight; Transmillenial eschatology sees the future as an open book, in which we have the sacred privilege of co-creating with God, one moment at a time. While the foresight field is ‘faith neutral’ (its actually historically a tad hostile to faith, though that is changing as more nuanced and integral views effect the discipline), its view of an open future is quite compatible with this “way of seeing.”
Here are futures blogs that my KedgeForward partner Frank Spencer and I pay closest attention to in the foresight community:
Emergent by Design – Venessa Miemis
Far Other Worlds – Dominique Jaurola
Foresight Culture – John Mahaffie
