Science is valuable and admirable for its ability to establish a certain kind of truth beyond a reasonable doubt, for its precise methodologies and its respect for evidence.
Much of Mendes' work has been widely published in books and magazines and his prints are in many public and private collections. Mendes has also won several Emmy Awards as a documentary writer, director and producer for Kentucky Educational Television, wh
When conservation leaves the mighty halls of Congress and goes beyond the Beltway, it starts to look good for America and Americans. In today's socio/economic climate, conservation works best when it is bottom up rather than top down.
Bill McKibben discusses his book Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, in which he challenges the prevailing view that "more" is synonymous with "better" and urges more local production and consumption of everything from food to
Some Restaurants, Grocers Prefer Food Grown Locally
Organic food, which represents merely 2.5 percent of America's half-trillion-dollar food economy, is about to go mainstream.
Michael Pollan tells how overproduction of commodity crops has led to overconsumption and obesity, and he challenges the wisdom of “organic high-fructose corn syrup” and the machinations that would create such products.
So it was no surprise that Berry and his daughter, who farms in Kentucky only a few miles away, drew big crowds when they visited Iowa State University on April 15.
If you know even as little history as I do, it is hard not to doubt the efficacy of modern war as a solution to any problem except that of retribution—the “justice” of exchanging one damage for another.
I'm disappointed at Wendell Berry's flimsy excuse for not voting. What if you were prohibited from voting?
In all the history of teaching and learning, our own time may be the oddest. We seem to be obsessed with education.
It’s not well known that Catholics have been way ahead of Willie Nelson or Wendell Berry when it comes to a populist, environmental vision for rural America.
WB has a tendency to make the reader—perhaps most of all, the suburban reader—feel guilty.
Benedict's rule requires a "vow of stability" -- the uniquely Benedictine commitment to live in a particular monastic community for life.