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Date New Information as of: January 2010
   
   
   
   
   
 

Class Handouts

The books, Seeing Nature, and Nature's Gardeners, Rediscovering Our Importance to Nature all should be read by the week before your mid semester LR moderation and used for reference all semester.
  1. Excerpts from Catastrophe, Creativity, and The Renewal of Civilization: The Upside of Down (Thomas Homer-Dixon) (2006)
  2. Questions for building your Holistic Goal
  3. Ecology of Observations & Learning (including The Thinking Problem)
  4. Natural Systems Agriculture by Wes Jackson
  5. Cutting World Hunger in Half (from Science 2005)
  6. The Ecological Footprint (Global Footprint Network) + chart of organic ag brands controlled by large corporations
  7. Land EKG EZ Indicator Guide for ecosystem functions
  8. State of the World 2006
  9.  By John Ikerd, an Ag Economist from Un. of Missouri (linked to his series)
    • New Food Culture: Good News
    • How Big Should a Small Farm Be?
    • Ecology of Sustainability

   

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