A century ago, Ford Motors began mass-producing automobiles, sparking the personal transportation revolution that continues to define our car-centric culture today. That’s the way the story usually goes, anyway, but one question that normally isn’t asked is how valuable those new vehicles would have been without the massive infrastructure they engendered. Pre-automobile, the few roads [...]
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Creating Solutions
Pitchfork Pastoralism: My Summer as a Farm Apprentice
Imagine an afternoon in mid-June sprinkled with late-arriving spring rains. Graduation rituals are being held all over the country, including here, at the University of Oregon in the city of Eugene. The Environmental Studies program ceremony is held outside, and everyone’s too jubilant and excited to mind a few light showers. As the proceedings wind [...]
Culture & History
’99 to ’09: WTO Resistance in the Pacific Northwest
Ten years after the Battle in Seattle, activists in Portland and around the world gathered to protest the World Trade Organization as it held its ministerial meeting in Geneva. The combined effect, however, did little to deter trade negotiations. What does this say about the changing face of activism, and does it mean the WTO [...]
Creating Solutions
From India, Six Lessons for Creating a Sustainable Local Food System
We must retrofit our corporate, globalized food system to produce healthful food for local communities. But where do we start? Last year, I spent some time in India, and in this country – which is stereotyped by the Western world as starving and impoverished – discovered a traditional food system that might make “locavores” back [...]
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