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Michael Pollan’s Big Idea

September 26, 2009

What critical question has Pollan asked to cause such an uproar?

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Shelved with: Food Systems|| Reading the Table
Tagged With: Carbon Cycle, Criticism, Food, food system, In Defense of Farmers, In Defense of Food, John Vrieze, Michael Pollan, Relationship, UW-Madison
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Poking a Sharp Stick at the Farm

September 24, 2009

As green-clad protesters filled the streets of New York City in protest of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech before the United Nations, a different set of Greens is planning to gather in Madison, Wisconsin this evening. They are farmers, and their grievance, they say, is that they have been misrepresented in Michael Pollan’s books. Pollan’s book on […]

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Shelved with: Food Systems|| Reading the Table
Tagged With: Agriculture, Bill Bruins, Bill Marler, Context, Criticism, Food, Food politics, Laura Daniels, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Tom Still, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Public Radio
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Why Read about Food?

September 20, 2009

Culture, economy, health, family, spirituality. Food touches everything, draws everything in for us to savor, and so turns us outward to the world in which we participate.

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Tagged With: Food, Gabriel Zaid, Michael Pollan, Reading, The Omnivore's Dilemma
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On Manifestoes

May 24, 2008

So here are some manifestos of the present day on books, education, faith, and civic life. Though their weight for good or ill, for much or little, is as yet unknown, these are some of the words that will shepherd us into our shared future.

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Shelved with: Civic Life|| Community & Time|| Education|| Hearts & Minds|| Mind & Society|| Reading the Word|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Aristotle, Barack Obama, Book Publishing, Civil Rights, Classics, Clay Shirkey, Danielle Allen, Democracy, Education, Faith, History, Homeschooling, John Taylor Gatto, Manifesto, Michael Pollan, Politics, Race, Ralph Ellison, Religion, Richard Harwood, Sara Lloyd, Writing
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The Hundred-Mile Diet Map and More

May 22, 2008

A new map of food sources within a hundred miles of Madison, Wisconsin, shows kind of connection and sharing that will allow us as human societies to learn to be conscious of and take responsibility for the earthly places in which we live and move.

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Shelved with: Local Life|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Barbara Kingslover, Circle M Market Farm, Clay Shirkey, Data Visualization, Deborah Madison, Digital Literacy, Education, Education Infrastructure, Food, Joel Salatin, Kavi Turnbull, Lifelong Learning, Local Food, Localism, Michael Pollan, Networks, Wisconsin
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