Late Winter Newsletter “The great cause of inequality in the distribution of wealth is inequality in the ownership of land. The ownership of land is the great fundamental fact which ultimately determines the social, the political, and consequently the intellectual and moral condition of a people.”― Henry George, Progress and Poverty Collaboration! Newtown CDC and AZCLT:Working for …
The smell of smoke and the sight of the house next door in flames will get your attention in a heartbeat and spur you to take immediate action. Give credit to your brain and autonomic nervous system for that. But the sight of vast swaths of farmland in your neck of the woods disappearing over …
Disappearing Farmland in Arizona: Maricopa County Leads the Way Read More »
Three Rivers Agricultural Land Initiative (TRALI) The Arizona Community Land Trust (AzCLT) is a relatively new community land trust (CLT) which has as one of its goals, the preservation of agricultural lands in Maricopa County for the growing of food. As a new organization, AzCLT looks for other CLTs with a similar goal to learn …
Jennifer Clapp writes in Food, her seminal work on the global food system: Today, the average plate of food eaten in Europe or North America travels around 1,500 miles before it is consumed…Some say it’s not necessarily important for people to know all of the details of the functioning of the global food system – …
COVID-19: The Great Food System Disruptor of Our Time Read More »
Farmers agree: In the Valley, the days of large-scale commercial farming are all but gone. But the trade might survive on a much smaller scale. Urban farms — which can take up less than an acre and grow unique produce — may be the only farming that lives on, they say. The small-scale farms work …
Have you been following the news of natural disasters across the globe? Extensive property damage has occurred from: flooding in Houston, India, Nepal and Bangladesh; hurricane force winds in Dominica and Puerto Rico; and major earthquakes in Mexico. Many people living in those communities have lost everything and are now homeless! What they have to …
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ― R. Buckminster Fuller There has been much talk of revolution during the recent presidential primary campaigns, especially among Bernie Sanders supporters. Unfortunately, this talk has focused on the changes we need to …
