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Education is about imparting skills for understanding the past and for navigating the future. As the crises of climate change and peak fossil fuels have become increasingly apparent just the last decade, the future suddenly looks a lot different than what we've been expecting. Many institutions are already exploring new directions. They're adding "ecoliteracy", resilience thinking, and green jobs training to curricula. They're building school cafeteria gardens and partnering with local farms to give students hands-on experience with cultivating food.

But these are only the first responses to a very big question: How do we best prepare our children and ourselves for a climate-changing world without cheap oil?

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Wes Jackson - USDA Alternative Agriculture Oral Histories

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One in a series of oral history interviews created by AFSIC to capture the leaders in sustainable agriculture from the decades preceding the 1990s. Interview recorded in 1990.

Wes Jackson, Ph.D., as the co-founder with Dana Jackson of the Land Institute, has researched and influenced thought on the environment and agriculture in general and specifically perennial polyculture cropping systems based on the prairie ecosystem. He is a farmer, philosopher and author of several landmark books on the subject of sustainable agriculture.

The segments in the Questions section are drawn from the full interview. They duplicate video segments from the menu. These are not verbatim questions asked by the interviewer, but rather topics addressed by Dr. Jackson during the course of his interview. We hope that this will be an informative and interesting way to view the conversation.

Part 1 (Intro), Part, 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part, 11, Part 12

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associated fellows

  • Zenobia Barlow

    Fellow, Ecological Literacy
    Northern California
  • David Orr

    Fellow, Climate, Education & Communities
    Ohio

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