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Better homes and gardens
The NYT on urban farming |
Tom Philpott |
08 May 2008 |
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| Viewed through a wide lens, the world's troubles seem overwhelming: climate change, pointless war, spreading hunger, surging food and energy prices, etc. There's a tendency to seek big-brush answers to these vast problems, to ask: what's The Solution? Failing inevitably to find it -- much less implement it -- we plunge deeper into despair and political impotence. Of course, taking a broad view of the world is critically important. But that perspective may be better at ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, food, local food, placemaking, sustainable ag, urban planning (all these topics) |
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