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Category: Environment and Conservation
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Check out an excerpt from Fran Hawthorne’s new book: The Overloaded Liberal, which Greg Melville called “funny, poignant, and often eye-opening.”
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Mark Winne looks at encouraging signs that we are making progress toward closing some of the biggest gaps in our food system.
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Black farmers have been left out of the growing ranks of organic farming, but a group has formed to help change that in the American southeast.
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Current Beacon contests and links to good reading.
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Amy Seidl looks at the gap between what was achieved and what was needed in Copenhagen.
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It seems but a few evenings ago when the soft calming chirp of crickets gave measure to the warm breeze. That was early September. Now, in late November, only strong, cold winds blow across Stone Prairie Farm. And the crickets are burrowed in for winter and silent.
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Nancy Gift took her battle over herbicide application on the lawns at her children’s school all the way to the top.
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Today’s post is from Steven I. Apfelbaum, author of Nature’s Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm. Apfelbaum is founder, president, and senior ecologist of the firm Applied Ecological Services, known for its international science-based ecological design and restoration work. He lives in Juda, Wisconsin, on Stone Prairie Farm. You can read all…
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Meredith Hall's Without a Map continues to resonate with readers. A Q&A with homeschooling expert Robert Kunzman addresses some of the criticism his book has received from conservative bloggers. Kathryn Joyce uncovers the dark side of Christian adoption agencies. The Ethicurean looks at Nancy Gift's A Weed by Any Other Name (Gifted posted here today).…
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