1. How About Stimulating Truth, Not Spending
(Newsletter)

...ective on agriculture Interviews By Robert Jensen    Thursday, 29 January 2009 An interview with Wes JacksonAs everyone scrambles for a solution to the crises in the nation’s economy, We...

2. Future farming: The call for a 50-year perspective on agriculture
(Opinions/Interview)

An interview with Wes JacksonAs everyone scrambles for a solution to the crises in the nation’s economy, Wes Jackson suggests we look to nature’s economy for some of the answers. With everyone focused

3. Technological fundamentalism in media and culture
(Opinions/Features)

...comfort, even if illusory. But fundamentalism is better described as a system of non-thought, for as ecologist Wes Jackson puts it, “fundamentalism takes over where thought leaves off.”[1] Journalists...

4. Progressive strategy amid cascading crises
(Opinions/Society)

...s the dramatic need for a drastic humility. I read that essay by Dawkins after hearing the sentence quoted by Wes Jackson, an important contemporary scientist and philosopher working at The Land Inst...

5. We are all prophets now
(Editor/Editorial)

...for which there are no apparent solutions and face “questions that go beyond the available answers,” to borrow Wes Jackson’s phrase.[1] These threats have been building for the past 10,000 years, inte...

6. Monkey See, Monkey Do
(Opinions/Society)

...re. For all our cleverness and inventiveness, what we don't know still dwarfs what we do know. In the words of Wes Jackson, a biologist and sustainable-agriculture researcher, we are fundamentally ign...

7. Hope is for the Weak
(Opinions/Features)

...ial systems and technological advances that have moved far past the point we can control them. In the words of Wes Jackson, a sustainable-agriculture researcher and philosopher of science, we have fal...