Bit of Background
If you've never been to the floodplains of the Midwest, it’s difficult to explain just how different things look. You could drive 30 miles and not see a single house or gas…
Weeks 5&6: The Systems Perspectives
The systems perspective is an approach on describing the contemporary world that speaks to me personally, for it grasps concepts stemming from biology. In biology there is a lot of talk about the hierarchy of systems within the body and how one cannot work without the other. We begin with…
I will not eat fossil fuels, so comparing the number of calories used in transportation of a strawberry to the number of calories gained by consuming one strawberry seems like a moot point. Yet, there are many reasons that consuming locally grown food is…