| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 403 pages) |
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Culture of the land |
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Culture of the land.
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| Contents |
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? |
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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? |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 Farmer Philosopher documents Kirschenmann's evolution and his lifelong contributions to the new agrarianism in a collection of his greatest writings on farming, philosophy, and sustainability. Working closely with agricultural economist and editor Constance L. Falk, Kirschenmann recounts his intelle |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sustainable agriculture.
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Organic farming.
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Sustainable living.
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Agriculture -- Philosophy
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Human ecology -- Philosophy
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sustainable agriculture (discipline)
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
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NATURE -- Essays.
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Agriculture -- Philosophy
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Human ecology -- Philosophy
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Organic farming
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Sustainable agriculture
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Sustainable living
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Falk, Constance Louise, 1957-
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| ISBN |
9780813173733 |
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0813173736 |
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9780813139586 |
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0813139589 |
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