Berry speaks eloquently to the loss of our sustainability in our loss to the pressures of a commercial world whose only product is not "progress," but material aggrandizement.
Mallory McDuff, Ph.D. | Posted 01.16.2012
In his writings, Berry speaks about reclaiming local economies and living an authentic life. And in an age when heroes seem to beg for all our attention on TV and Twitter, Berry doesn't even use a computer.
Nina Sankovitch | Posted 12.10.2011
he question of whether a politician reads at all is a good one, and should be asked and answered more often. But the question of which books a politician has loved throughout his or her lifetime must be asked and answered.
Jennifer Buffett | Posted 11.27.2011
In formally establishing the Green Belt Movement in 1977, Wangari was wise enough to see that for the disempowered, planting trees was in fact a radical act of self-assertion, a method of laying claim to the life-giving power of one small corner of the Earth.
Mallory McDuff, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
We need alternative road signs and luminaries if we are going to reconnect human communities with places. Wendell Berry's writings provide some direction: "What I stand for is what I stand on."
Mark Engler | Posted 06.07.2011
The Luddites have been slandered. They did not oppose technology per se, but rather asked some important questions about the ends to which new technological discoveries were being used and who in society would benefit from them.
Lisa Bennett | Posted 05.25.2011
FRANKFORT, KY, Feb. 11, 2011 -- Wendell Berry, Kentucky's most famous author and one of America's most respected essayists, is among sixteen protester...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
The 14 sit-in Kentucky Rising protesters inside the governor's office have electrified the clean energy movement across the nation with an inspiring valentine for the country: This is the year to end mountaintop removal mining.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
As the sun rose on the Frankfort capitol in Kentucky on this beautiful winter morning, 14 anti-mountaintop removal activists were already in meetings ...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
The Kentucky activists declared their intent "to remain in his office until the governor agrees to stop the poisoning of Kentucky's land, water, and people by mountaintop removal; or until he chooses to have the citizens physically removed."
Eric Simpson | Posted 05.25.2011
For the meek to inherit the earth speaks to the reconciliation of the human person with creation itself, and all that is entailed by that term.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
Thanks to a growing grassroots movement, a broad alliance of Kentucky activists sent a message across the nation today: A just transition to a clean-energy future, even in the heartland of coal country Kentucky, is possible.
Jeffrey Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
Michael Pollan said "For the food movement," this may be "the most important election this year." Slow Food chef Kurt Michael Friese named it, The Mo...
Posted 05.25.2011
TIME released their annual TIME 100 issue last week, naming the people who have most influenced our world, and author/journalist/food activist Michael...
Tom Morris | Posted 05.25.2011
There's a particular alternate reality experience that I highly recommend. It happens to take place at an academic outpost of heaven. Forty five minu...
Jamie Kalven | Posted 05.25.2011
For the last few weeks, I've been talking with gardeners at an imperiled community garden on the South Side of Chicago. Last spring, the University of Chicago informed us it wants its land back.
Travis Nichols | Posted 05.25.2011
Every week, the Poetry Foundation compiles information from Nielsen Bookscan and puts together lists of the best selling books of poetry. Here are 2009's best selling books of contemporary poetry:
Janice Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011
We human beings are pretty crude creatures. We want more, more, more. We have insatiable appetites. We do everything in excess, in both our personal and collective lives.
Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011
For years, I've been collecting great quotes. They're words to live by. And they're invaluable to a speechwriter like me.
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011
The dirty coal power station literally powers our congressional building in DC. It is just one among the thousands around the world that threaten to push climate disruption beyond the point of no return.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011
Young people have a variety of ways to generate noise about climate solutions right now, from organizing their campuses to putting boots on the ground in Washington.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
As the first massive act of civil disobedience, thousands will cross the line to demand an end to our nation's denial of the spiraling impact of dirty coal and old coal-fired plants.
Marc Gunther | Posted 05.25.2011
But I was amused to stumble upon a different question that's sparking debate among the young people planning to attend the action: What should one wear to a protest against coal?
Dan Imhoff | Posted 05.25.2011
People want our unhealthy food and agriculture system made healthy. And it doesn't look like we'll be giving up any time soon.
Grist.org | Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 05.25.2011
It's going to take me more than just a few days to fully understand the effects and implications of the first Slow Food Nation, held in San Francisco ...
Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D. | Posted 05.18.2012