Philip Ackerman-Leist, author of the PCI Resilience Guide Rebuilding the Foodshed was interviewed in this article for Mountain Xpress. From the article: One of your talks focuses on the idea of “Rebuilding the Foodshed”, can you give us a...
The Post Carbon Resilience Guide Rebuilding the Foodshed by Philip Ackerman-Leist was reviewed in this article on rebuilding community resilience. From the review: Ackerman-Leist’s book is laced with humor, research, maps—even references to literature—and he cautions against polarization and...
Philip Ackerman-Leist, author of the PCI Community Resilience Guide Rebuilding the Foodshed, wrote this op-ed for the Fair Observer. From the article: I have begun to think of the term “foodshed” slightly differently over the course of the past...
“Resilience” may be a somewhat new term in the lexicon of forward-thinkers, but the concept is by no means entirely new, and it has a direct tie to another useful word: “foodshed.” The photograph above depicts New Yorkers lining...
This is the final part of our serialization of Chapter 4 (Energy) from the latest Resilience guide, “Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable & Secure Food Systems“. This installment shows the big problem we have with...
Philip Ackerman-Leist author of PCI’s book Rebuilding the Foodshed was interviewed on Mendocino County Public Broadcasting as part of a new series Changing Climate – Changing World. Listen to the interview
Foreword by Deborah Madison. Droves of people have turned to local food as a way to retreat from our broken industrial food system. From rural outposts to city streets, they are sowing, growing, selling, and eating food produced close...