Rethinking the Economy

One of the big slams on organic agriculture is that it’s just not productive enough. But now, according to Mother Jones’ Tom Philpott, more solid evidence “from the very heart of Big Ag, rural Iowa” that it ain’t so:
Iowa State University’s Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture runs the Long-Term Agroecological Research Experiment (LTAR), [...]

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The next time you hear someone from the Obama administration talk about the great work they did on finance reform, here’s a quote to keep in mind.
“We continue to listen to the same people whose errors in judgment were central to the problem,” said John Reed, 71, a former co-chief executive officer of Citigroup [...]

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Grist writer and North Carolina farmer Tom Philpott, commenting on an American Prospect article, explains why consumer choice isn’t enough to bring about an organic, locally grown, sustainable food system:
the example of a New York State farmer named Morse Pitts. He sells the bounty of his 15-acre Windfall Farm in the Hudson [...]

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