Activism
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() A Matter of TasteA Farmers' Market Devotee's Semi-Reluctant Argument for Inviting Scientific Innovation to the Dinner Table |
How did farmer’s markets, nose-to-tail, locavorism, organic eating, CSAs, whole foods, and Whole Foods become synonymous with "good food"? And are these practices … | Rebecca Tucker | 137 | 2018 | View |
![]() BelongingsThe Fight For Land and Food |
In Belongings, Sally Miller illustrates how food and farm crises result from adherence to the rules of private property. Miller looks at the state of farmland and farmers in Canada and across the … | Sally Miller | 205 | 2016 | View |
![]() Changing TidesAn Ecologist's Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene |
Change the story and change the future – merging science and Indigenous knowledge to steer us towards a more benign Anthropocene. As humanity marches on, causing mass extinctions and … | Alejandro Frid | 220 | 2019 | View |
![]() NEW! Dinner on MarsThe Technologies That Will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth |
From Impossible Burgers to lab-made sushi, two witty, plugged-in food scientists explore leading-edge AgTech for the answer to feeding a settlement on Mars — and 9 billion Earthlings too … | Evan D. G. Fraser; Lenore Newman | 232 | 2022 | View |
![]() Frontline Farmers |
Who grows the food we eat? How important is it that family farms are viable in Canada today and in the future? How do viable family farms help determine the safety, diversity and sustainability … | Annette Aurélie Desmarais | 273 | 2019 | View |
![]() Good Crop / Bad CropSeed Politics and the Future of Food in Canada |
In recent years Canadians have become more and more concerned about the origins of their food and the environmental impacts of pesticides in agriculture. What is less well known is that pesticide … | Devlin Kuyek | 160 | 2007 | View |
![]() Grocery StoryThe Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Store Giants |
Food has become ground-zero in our efforts to increase awareness of how our choices impact the world. Yet while we have begun to transform our communities and dinner plates, the most … | John Steinman | 306 | 2019 | View |
![]() In The Business of ChangeHow Social Entrepreneurs are Disrupting Business as Usual |
Our communities are facing the fallout from the demise of vital industry, bankrupt economies, bad policy or policing, and political mismanagement. People are looking for answers, and the … | Elisa Birnbaum | 195 | 2018 | View |
From ![]() Gravity SuspendedFrom: Changing Tides |
This chapter follows the author, Alejandro Frid’s personal experiences conducting dive surveys for rockfish—a genus of long-lived, marine fishes that are easy to overfish—as … | Alejandro Frid | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionOverview of Belongings From: Belongings |
Sally Miller | 20 | 2016 | $2.00 Add | |
From ![]() IntroductionOn the Cusp of a Revolution From: Emergent Agriculture |
Today’s shifting agricultural paradigm is doing much the same thing. It is changing the way we produce food, how and where we get it, and what it does to our health, our pocket books, and … | Gary S. Kleppel | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 Add |
From ![]() Introduction |
Social entrepreneurs, innovative men and women who focus their creative energy and business-minded skillset and savvy toward social change. Finding new and empowering ways to tackle social … | Elisa Birnbaum | 4 | 2018 | $0.40 Add |
From ![]() Introduction, Consider the DunkarooFrom: A Matter of Taste |
In this chapter, Tucker begins with a discussion on the association of moral good and bad in relation to food habits. This leads into what constitutes good or bad food, and stresses four … | Rebecca Tucker | 5 | 2018 | $0.50 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Introduction: the Martian SingularityFrom: Dinner on Mars |
The Introduction reflects on the origins of this book as a thought experiment of what life would look like on Mars. Discussing topics including the ill-fated Franklin Expedition, revolutionary … | Evan D. G. Fraser; Lenore Newman | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
From ![]() Rise of the Grocery GiantsFrom: Grocery Story |
This chapter begins the description of the actions and tactics of "big food". The history of the A&P grocery retalier is described, as well as Piggly Wiggly, the first self-service … | John Steinman | 15 | 2019 | $1.50 Add |
From ![]() The ProtagonistsFrom: Frontline Farmers |
This chapter is meant to introduce the farmer members of the National Farmers Union who share their key struggles, gathered together by topic. | Annette Aurélie Desmarais | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |