Photograph by Les Stone
An open question for consideration: suppose that the United States’ massive natural gas reserves were located exclusively beneath urban sites. Would these regions encounter hydraulic fracturing? Would the practice exponenti…
Tag Archives: the environment
The Tree That Bursts Through The Silo
Tree In Silo; Ken Wolf
Many thanks to María Arambula for sharing on our Arts and Culture Feed A.G. Sulzberger’s latest rural dispatch for The New York Times, “Amid Rural Decay, Trees Take Root in Silos.” The image of these trees bursting from dis…
Wendell Berry’s Jefferson Lecture: "It All Turns On Affection"
On Monday night Wendell Berry delivered “It All Turns on Affection,” the 2012 Jefferson Lecture at the Kennedy Center. Each year the National Endowment for the Humanities offers this lectureship, “the highest honor the federal government bestows fo…
Almanac For Moderns: Rejoicing In The Noon Mercy
[More information on our Almanac For Moderns project and the work of Donald Culross Peattie can be found here.]
January Twenty-First
I wonder how much of fatality has come to the birds in the past week that I have been house-bound, while sto…
The People Speak: New Work From Jetsonorama
Wheat paste of CJ at the Tuba City, AZ, rodeo grounds on fair day; Jetsonorama
Where else would you find a black guy applying wallpaper to the
outside of an outhouse at 7 in the morning at a rodeo on an indian
reservation? Only in Ameri…
To The New Year 2012
From the Foster-Fluharty Farm; Matthew Fluharty
from Sabbaths, 2005
VI.
I tremble with gratitude
for my children and grandchildren
who take pleasure in one another.
At our dinners together, the dead
enter and pass among us
in living love and in …
Finding Sustainability In "Generation Organic"
From the 2011 Young Farmers Conference; Maggie Starbard, NPR
Many thanks to the folks who have shared news of this report by Dan Charles broadcast on NPR’s All Things Considered yesterday: “Who Are The Farmers of ‘Generation Organic’:”
For deca…