Rebuilding the Foodshed, the latest Post Carbon Resilience Guide by Philip Ackerman-Leist was reviewed on the food website Culinate.

From the review:

What we have to eat, at what cost, depends not only on economic and ecological circumstances but also on politics. Rebuilding the Foodshed offers scant guidance through the muck of food politics, but it can help prepare citizens for the slog by decoding some of the lingo food activists prefer.

I hope it will also convince some of those activists to drop the arcane terminology and speak and write in plain English. We may not need a food-resilience movement, a food-justice movement, or even a local-food movement. What we need is what Erika Allen, of the urban-agriculture nonprofit Growing Power, described to Ackerman-Leist as a “Good Food Movement.” And who doesn’t want to be a part of that?

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