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The local food revolution, how humanity will feed itself in uncertain times, Michael Brownlee

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The local food revolution, how humanity will feed itself in uncertain times, Michael Brownlee
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The local food revolution
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
936143772
Responsibility statement
Michael Brownlee
Sub title
how humanity will feed itself in uncertain times
Table Of Contents
Part 1. What must be said now -- 1. Toward a local food revolution -- 2. The local food declaration of independence -- 3. The coming revolution -- 4. Note to the reader -- Part 2. The making of an evolutionary catalyst -- 5. Beginnings: the convergence of global crises -- 6. Going local!: a coherent community response -- 7. In transition: a movement dies, another is born -- 8. The evolution of transition in the United States -- 9. Diving into food -- Part 3. The full extent of our predicament -- 10. Peak everything revisited -- 11. Climate collapse: the rogue factor -- 12. Stories from the front lines -- Part 4. Emergence: the evolutionary perspective -- 13. The problem with peak everything -- 14. Patterns of emergence: the evolutionary process -- 15. Human evolution at the turn -- 16. Message to students -- 17. Radicalization -- Part 5. Toward deep revolution -- 18. A truly revolutionary revolution -- 19. Deep revolution and the evolutionary catalyst -- Part 6. Field notes for the emergence of a foodshed -- 20. How the local food revolution can unfold -- 21. Toward a pattern language for food localization -- 22. Deadwood: a parable -- 23. Overview of the process -- 24. The evolutionary catalyst and the emerging foodshed -- 25. Patterns of emergence in an awakening foodshed -- Part 7. Revolution in practice -- 26. From theory of change to theory of revolution -- 27. Christopher Alexander and the evolutionary catalyst -- 28. The secrets of cocreative collaboration -- Part 8. The future of food -- 29. Preparing for climate collapse -- 30. The moral challenge of biotechnology -- 31. The role of animals in local food and agriculture -- 32. the promise of controlled-environment agriculture -- 33. Shifting local capital into the foodshed -- 34. What we all can do -- Afterword: Inhabiting our foodshed
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