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Last Oasis
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?
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
On October 24th the Gund Insititute for Ecological Economics is holding a teach in which aims to respond to the recent #Occupy protests on Wall Street and around the country. The event has been … >>
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EXCERPT: The key question is, "Where in our current educational system is it possible to develop an institutionalize the kinds of education needed to prepare people for work in the … >>
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Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. Richard Heinberg proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history.
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