The local food revolution
Subtitle: how humanity will feed itself in uncertain times
By: Michael Brownlee
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9781623170004
Subjects: Local foods; Food supply
Description: Michael Brownlee, cofounder of the nonprofit Local Food Shift Group, maps out the underlying process of food localization and outlines the route that communities, regions, and foodsheds often follow in their efforts to take control of food production and distribution. By sharing the strategies that have proven successful, he charts a practical path forward while indicating approaches that otherwise might be invisible and unexplored. Stories and interviews illustrate how food localization is happening on the ground and in the field. Essays and thought-pieces explore some of the challenging ethical, moral, economic, and social dilemmas and thresholds that might arise as the local food shift develops.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-425) and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward a local food revolution; title: The local food declaration of independence; title: The coming revolution; title: Note to the reader; title: Beginnings: The convergence of global crises; title: Going local! A coherent community response; title: In transition: A movement dies, another is born; title: The evolution of transition in the United States; title: Diving into food; title: Peak everything revisited; title: Climate collapse: The rogue factor; title: Stories from the front lines; title: The problem with peak everything; title: Patterns of emergence: The evolutionary process; title: Human evolution at the turn; title: Message to students; title: Radicalization; title: A truly revolutionary revolution; title: Deep revolution and the evolutionary catalyst; title: How the local food revolution can unfold; title: Toward a pattern language for food localization; title: Deadwood: A parable; title: Overview of the process; title: The evolutionary catalyst and the emerging foodshed; title: Patterns of emergence in an awakening foodshed; title: From theory of change to theory of revolution; title: Christopher Alexander and the evolutionary catalyst; title: The secrets of cocreative collaboration; title: Preparing for climate collapse; title: The moral challenge of biotechnology; title: The role of animals in local food and agriculture; title: The promise of controlled-environment agriculture; title: Shifting local capital into the foodshed; title: What we all can do; title: Afterword: Inhabiting our foodshed.