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How do we get to “an economy that restores”?
Go over to the Woohoo Report and read this post about Kiva.
I think this kind of collaboration may be the future of restoration. Why? Because it restores human capital—or creates some where there was none—and it’s done by ordinary people lending and borrowing. It doesn’t require too [...]
How do we move restoration into the private sector, creating “an economy that restores”?
I felt the need for a little levity today, right before Christmas, what with my aunt dying on December 9 and my mother’s death-day coming up on December 21. In fact, I thought I was going to be depressed about that [...]
In the first post about Restoration Nation, I asked, “How can we move restoration into the private sector?”
Today, as part IV of my Farmer in Chief series (considering Michael Pollan’s article “Farmer in Chief”), I give you the Land Institute, a nonprofit research and education organization in Salina, Kansas.
Pollan mentions the Land Institute in [...]
The question: How do we move restoration into the private sector, creating “an economy that restores”?
You’ve heard of heirloom tomatoes? Well, today, I’m talking to you about heritage pigs.
It’s a topic related to “Farmer in Chief” by Michael Pollan but mentioned only indirectly in that article (as in the opposite of “feedlot meat”).
I have [...]
In the first post about Restoration Nation, I asked, “How can we move restoration into the private sector?”
Today, as part III of my Farmer in Chief series (considering Michael Pollan’s article “Farmer in Chief”), I was wondering whether turning parts of a suburban yard into a small farm qualify as the kind of restoration I’m [...]
Late in his article “Farmer in Chief,” Michael Pollan repeats the chestnut that the average American farmer is 55 years old.
Sounds like American farmers are just a couple of decades from becoming extinct, doesn’t it?
But maybe it’s not quite as bad as it sounds.
This article, from the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the U.S. Department [...]
Ever heard of Michael Pollan? He’s probably best known for the book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, but I notice he has a couple of plant/gardening books on Amazon. Look’s like he right up my alley.
The other day I came across his article “Farmer in Chief,” directed to President-Elect Barack Obama. I’m going to write about it [...]
Today for Restoration Nation, I decided to look online for some information about basic economics. I found this course online and read the first lecture, “Ten Principles of Economics.”
Principle #6: Markets are usually a good way to organize economic activity.
Adam Smith made the observation that households and firms interacting in markets act as if guided [...]
For years now, I’ve had this idea in the back of my head that I thought could be world-changing, or at least nation-changing: Restoration Nation.
I even made a one-page website about it, just to hold the idea, here.
The tagline is “An Economy That Restores.”
If we are ever going to move away from an economy based [...]