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Tag Archives: back to the land
Book review of “Agrarian Dreams”
Preface. This is a book review of Guthman’s “Agrarian Dreams. The Paradox of Organic Farming in California”. Since world oil production likely peaked in 2018, and renewables can’t replace fossil fuels (read my books), there’s no choice but to go … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, back to the land, california, organic farming
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The Back to the Land Movement: why it failed and why we need to try again
[ This is my book review of “Back from the Land: how young Americans went to nature in the 1970s, and why they came back”. Some succeeded, but most failed, and there are lessons to be learned from the previous … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, back to the land, energy, farms, peak oil, what to do
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