Live from Iceland: Joan Davis on “Food for Life”
Here on Iceland, the Balaton Group Meeting is entering its third day. With models of Food Futures still spinning in our heads from yesterday, we are now listening to Joan Davis. Personal reasons kept her home in Switzerland this year, but this meeting’s theme touches her “heart-question” as we say in Swedish: organic agriculture. Joan … Read more
Food Futures: Sirens, Warning Lights, and All That
So I’m sitting on a rather large lump of volcanic rock in the North Atlantic ocean – Iceland – at the annual meeting of the Balaton Group. We’ve already had several days of (truly) mind-boggling presentations on topics related both to the global financial system, and the global food system, and more on that later. … Read more
International Buy-a-Qur’an Day
I bought a copy of the Qur’an today. It seemed the best way to register my support to all my Muslim friends in the face of the media circus around this low-minded Florida “pastor,” whose behavior is so antithetical from the Christianity I learned as a child (a child in Florida, as it happens). Buying … Read more
