PHIL 3340 Environmental Ethics-Supporting the philosophical study of environmental issues at Middle Tennessee State University and beyond...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
"patron saint of farmers markets"
Environmental activist Bill McKibben sat down with Moyers & Company to talk about the lasting contributions of Wendell Berry to the environmental, sustainable agriculture and slow food movements.
“He understood what was happening on this planet a long time before everybody else,” McKibben said. It was Berry’s foresight and activism that led local farmers to bring their produce directly to consumers in communities across the country.
McKibben calls Berry the patron saint of farmers markets adding “almost by force of will and [the] beauty of his words he gave birth to a counterculture trend that … bears great promise.”
More about Bill McKibben
FROM THE SHOW
Encore: Wendell Berry, Poet & Prophet...
(NOTE the Bill McKibben "Crucial Years" feed in the sidebar, I encourage you to read him and comment.)
... Michael Pollan on food policy (before he told us how to change our minds)...
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