Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Provocative and perceptive IMHO but I'm trying not to get too far afield
with Living On The Land. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
   -- Fran Lebowitz 

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On 6/29/2009 at 1:05 PM Dan Conine wrote:

>I'll make a plug for a book by a friend of mine here:
>
>http://www.amazon.com/Life-Inc-World-Became-Corporation/dp/1400066891/ref=s
r_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246298651&sr=8-1
>
> From Amazon review:
>
>"The book starts with a telling anecdote: the author, Douglas Rushkoff 
>got mugged on Christmas Eve in from of his Brooklyn apartment, and 
>instead of getting sympathy, he was basically urged to shut up by local 
>residents, afraid as they were that the incident would damage the 
>reputation of their neighborhood, i.e. reduce the value of their home. 
>"When faced with a local mugging, the community of Park Slope first 
>thought to protect its brand instead of its people," Rushkoff writes. 
>The anecdote is Rushkoff's starting point to analyze how, since the 
>Renaissance, "the market and its logic have insinuated themselves into 
>every area of our lives." He argues that they mediate every single 
>aspect of our existence, disconnecting us from everything that surrounds 
>us. The book is quite expectedly somewhat controversial -- yet may also 
>be one of the most inspiring recent books for entrepreneurs and 
>innovative marketers.
>
>Chapter after chapter, the author recounts how charters disconnected us 
>from commerce, how by mistaking the map for the territory, we got 
>disconnected from place, how the real estate business disconnected us 
>from home, public relations from one another, consumer empowerment from 
>choice, a unified financial architecture from the meaning of currency, 
>big business from the creation of value - and how many of our attempts 
>to combat corporate power are likely to disconnect us even more. "Brands 
>were invented to substitute for the real connections we had to people, 
>places and values."
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:01:57 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Pete Vukovich <pvukovic1@yahoo.com>
>>
>>
>> New day same pattern in my opinion. Ok so the trend for big dairy is the
>same as big grain, etc, offshore operations for cheaper labor in an
>environment that regulates them less, recreate the same industrial model,
>and then when it fails move on to exploit the next spot.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm all in favor of trading excesses, but whats happened with gatt and
>the like is no different than handing a dangerous weapon to a child. If
>most of the proponents of it came forward and said 'Were pretty bad at
>what we do we fail at it regularly, and we'd like to do that more rapidly
>more places' I sort of doubt there would be confirmed globalists trying to
>explain how globalism didn't contribute to a global recession today. Can't
>imagine a kid explaining to its parent "I'm real clumsy and I don't know
>anything about combustion , so would it be alright if I borrowed your
>lighter?"
>>
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