Masanobu Fukuoka
Masanobu Fukuoka was born in 1914 in a small farming village on the island of Shikoku in Southern Japan. He was educated in microbiology and worked as a soil scientist specializing in plant pathology, but at the age of twenty-five he began to have doubts about the "wonders of modern agriculture science."
While recovering from a severe attack of pneumonia, Fukuoka experienced a moment of satori or personal enlightenment. He had a vision in which something one might call true nature was revealed to him. He saw that all the "accomplishments" of human civilization are meaningless before the totality of nature. He saw that humans had become separated from nature and that our attempts to control or even understand all the complexities of life were
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James Ephraim Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS, is an independent scientist, author, researcher, environmentalist, and futurist who lives in Devon, England. He is known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, in which he postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system. -
Judith D. Schwartz
I am a longtime freelance writer with wide-ranging experience with books, magazines, newspapers, and a variety of writing and editing clients. I’ve written articles for women’s magazines, co- and ghost-written books with therapists and doctors as well as a couple of my own. I’ve trained as a therapist and written a novel based on my grandmother’s psychoanalyst who was a member of Freud’s inner circle in Vienna. (It’s just a few tweaks away from sending out.)
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About four years ago my work took a different direction: I wrote an article on the then fledgling Transition movement, and the reporting turned my thinking upside down. When the 2008 financial crisis hit, I started asking questions like, “What is money?” Each inquiry led to more report -
James Green
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James Green - Male Health - a professional herbalist currently working and teaching in the San Diego area. He is the author of The Herbal Medicine-Maker¹s Handbook and The Male Herbal. James was the owner and director of the California School of Herbal Studies in Sonoma County for the last 15 years. He is a founding member of the United Plant Savers and the American Herbalists Guild. -
Maria Rodale
Maria Rodale is the CEO and Chairman of Rodale, Inc., the world's largest independent publisher of health, wellness, and environmental content and the largest independent book publisher in the United States. She is the third generation of the Rodale family to lead the company, which was founded by her grandfather J.I. Rodale in 1930 and later led by both her father, Robert Rodale, and mother, Ardath Rodale.
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A lifelong advocate on behalf of organic farming and gardening, Maria is also the author of several books, including most recently Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe (2011, Rodale Books). She blogs regularly about news and information related to healthy living at Maria's Farm Count -
Hannah Kirshner
Hannah Kirshner is a writer, artist, and food stylist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, Saveur, Taste, Food52, Roads & Kingdoms, and Atlas Obscura, among others. Trained at the Rhode Island School of Design, Kirshner grew up on a small farm outside Seattle and divides her time between Brooklyn and rural Japan.
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Jerry Belanger
In addition to writing books, Jerome D. (JD) Belanger founded Countryside and Small Stock Journal in 1969, sheep! magazine, Backyard Poultry in 1979, Dairy Goat Guide, and Rabbit World. He was an organic farmer for several years, and a homesteader for most of his life. Now retired in northern Wisconsin, he is known locally for his 30,000 spring bulbs and extensive collection of rare and unusual conifers.
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Laeth
Laeth was born in nineteen eighty nine in the westernmost part of the iberian peninsula.
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Hoàng Đạo Thúy
Hoàng Đạo Thúy sinh năm 1900 tại số nhà 7 phố Hàng Đào, Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội. Tổ tiên ông vốn gốc họ Cung ở làng Kim Lũ, xã Đại Kim, huyện Thanh Trì, phủ Thường Tín, tỉnh Hà Đông (nay thuộc quận Hoàng Mai, Hà Nội). Cha của ông là một nhà Nho tên Hoàng Đạo Thành, hiệu Cúc Lữ. Đích mẫu của ông là bà Thu Minh. Mẹ của ông tên là Nguyễn Thị Môn, là vợ thứ hai. Chị gái ông tên Hoàng Thị Uyên, thường gọi là bà Cả Mọc.
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