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The Industrious Revolution

Peter Klein wrote 1 month ago: | Peter Klein | Hans-Joachim Voth calls Jan de Vries’s new book on household behavior during … more →

Tags: Recommended Reading, Klein, Business history

Mylius '11 helps lead Bates to victory — victory gardening, that is

Doug Hubley wrote 1 month ago: Molly Mylius '11 has spent Short Term helping build a Bates herb garden. Below, the site of the … more →

Tags: Creativity, Current Students, Environmental Studies program, Faculty and Staff, sustainability, Bates College Short Terrm, Bates Contemplates Food, Bates Dining Services, Bates short term

Plowing Under Rural Sociology3 comments

Peter Klein wrote 1 month ago: | Peter Klein | From Randy Westgren: The aggie world, and to a lesser extent, the sociology world, i … more →

Tags: Klein, Education

There Isn’t Much Spam In It 3 comments

rlanglois wrote 2 months ago: | Dick Langlois | A new working paper from the Association of Wine Economists is called “Can P … more →

Tags: - Langlois -

Eating for Enjoyment, Part 3: A Manifesto on Bread

Jess Vogt wrote 2 months ago: In the last two posts I have discussed various food philosophies, the meaning of food in society, an … more →

Tags: Lawrentian articles, Eating for Enjoyment, Food, Lawrentian

Eating for Enjoyment, Part 2: The Meaning of Food

Jess Vogt wrote 2 months ago: I ended my last post hinting at “what exactly food as a concept means to our human societies in gene … more →

Tags: Lawrentian articles, thoughts and musings, Eating for Enjoyment, Food, Lawrentian

Eating for Enjoyment, Part 1: A Food Philosophy

Jess Vogt wrote 2 months ago: It’s almost spring, for those of you who haven’t noticed. And as I spend my last term on a meal pla … more →

Tags: Lawrentian articles, thoughts and musings, Eating for Enjoyment, Food, Lawrentian, post undergrad

Bon Appetit to a Low Carbon Diet

Jess Vogt wrote 2 months ago: Next year, as Lawrence University switches over to its new Campus Center, it will also have a new fo … more →

Tags: Lawrentian articles, Climage Change, Education, Food, lawrence university, Lawrentian, Sustainable Future

Another Regulation Not Worth Its Salt

Michael Sykuta wrote 2 months ago: | Mike Sykuta | Thanks to Randy Westgren for calling attention to an April 7 article in the New York … more →

Tags: Ephemera, Former Guest Bloggers, Political Economy

Cooking by the Numbers3 comments

Peter Klein wrote 3 months ago: | Peter Klein | Management by the numbers is out; will cooking by the numbers be next? The WSJ repor … more →

Tags: Klein, Management Theory

Number of Chronically Hungry Tops 1 Billion

rogerhollander wrote 3 months ago: Published on Friday, March 27, 2009 by Financial Times by Javier Blas LONDON – The num … more →

Tags: Economic Crisis, roger hollander, Hunger, Javier Blas, chronically hungry, united nations agriculture, Jacques Diouf, world food secutity, food insecutity

The Farmer’s Cow3 comments

rlanglois wrote 3 months ago: | Dick Langlois | This morning I read a story in the Hartford Courant about the state legislature … more →

Tags: - Langlois -, Political Economy

Plenty of fish in the sea? Think again

rogerhollander wrote 4 months ago: DEBORAH ZABARENKO Reuters Globe and Mail, March 2, 2009 at 5:24 PM EST WASHINGTON — The world … more →

Tags: Environment, roger hollander, climate change, deborah zaberenko, Fish, Aquaculture, over fishing, Oceana, hungry oceans

Tribal Ritual Among the Ag-Econ 1 comment

Peter Klein wrote 4 months ago: | Peter Klein | Henry Bahn and George McDowell’s spin-off of the Leijonhufvud classic. I wonde … more →

Tags: Institutions, Klein

“Bioconversion of wood wastes into gourmet and medicinal mushrooms”??

Jess Vogt wrote 5 months ago: (A version of the following article was printed in The Lawrentian on January 23, 2009.) Today, while … more →

Tags: Goodwill Internship, Lawrentian articles, cradle to cradle, Goodwill, landfill reduction, Lawrentian, Wood Waste, Food

You Can Never Go Home Again1 comment

Clare Sammells wrote 6 months ago: I think many of us who spend long periods living abroad have this kind of experience when we return … more →

Tags: Media, Press, and Internet, International Connections

Choice Meat

Bates Online Media wrote 8 months ago: By H. Jay Burns, editor This issue reflects the College’s ongoing Bates Contemplates Food init … more →

Tags: Alumni and friends, Collaboration, Creativity, From Bates Magazine, leadership, Partners and public, sustainability, Bates Contemplates Food, Chapel

CSA: A Bountiful Return on Investment1 comment

ecojoy79 wrote 8 months ago: In a world of uncertain economic times, why not invest in something that is guaranteed to have a pos … more →

Tags: Agriculture, Community, Healthy Living, CSA, Farms

Dual Demmitts

Bates Online Media wrote 8 months ago: Louisa Demmitt ‘09 and younger brother Daniel of Columbia, Md., saw a lot of each other durin … more →

Tags: Collaboration, Creativity, Current Students, From Bates Magazine, Integrity, Maine and New England, Parents and families, Service, sustainability


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