October 15th, 2008
Today I am at a conference for the Society of Enviromental Journalists in Roanoke, VA. Tomorrow I’m on a bus to Polyface Farm. That’s Joel Salatin’s grass growing operation in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. His farm was made legendary in Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma. Can’t wait.
I’m the biodiesel guy on the bus.
The fall colors are on, the weather is crisp, and I am reminded that Joel read Small is Possible prior to its publication, and sent me a wonderful blurb for the back jacket. It came in too late for the first printing, so perhaps we will see it on the next round.
Here is what Joel wrote:
“Cutting through the heady academic and altruistic arguments for local,
small economy, Estill’s captivating storytelling offers practical and can-do reality.
I came away from this book filled with enthusiasm for a pro-neighborhood commercial community.”
I’m looking forward to meeting him tomorrow…
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August 28th, 2008
I finally read David Suzuki’s The Sacred Balance, and I must say I am about a decade late.
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August 28th, 2008
I am just returning from a trip to Savannah, where I continued to flirt with biodiesel and the global marketplace.
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August 28th, 2008
One thing I like about long flights is that I get caught up on my reading.
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August 28th, 2008
The other day a book arrived from Dr. Reese Halter entitled Wild Weather; The Truth Behind Global Warming.
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August 28th, 2008
A special guest book review by Camille Armantrout.
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August 25th, 2008
I just finished Michael Shuman’s book, The Small-Mart Revolution; How Local Businesses are Beating the Global Competition, and I am pleased to report I was impressed.
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August 9th, 2008
My wife Tami is a shutterbug. Since she keeps a photographic record of our lives, I thought I should throw up some photos here.
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August 7th, 2008
Girl Mark lives down the road these days. Which means she stops by from time to time. Once she left a strange little paperback book on the kitchen table called Voices from the Farm. (The Book Publishing Company, 1988).
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August 5th, 2008
I have yet to see the new Pixar flick, WALL-E, but apparently the first hour or so parallels Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us (St. Martin’s Press, 2007).
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