[landinstitute] SCOOP #13, July 2006

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[landinstitute] SCOOP #13, July 2006

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Scoop

 

from The Land Institute

 

Issue 13, July 14, 2006

 

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30th Anniversary of The Land Institute—

 

Prairie Festival October 6-8, 2006

 

 

 

Not every non-profit organization that started with a $10,000 budget

in 1976 is still going. This one started with a couple of dropped-out

professor-teachers who came " back to the land. " They became The Land

Institute with the help of two neighbors—those families are still

represented on our board—and " The Land " has been growing ever since.

 

 

 

So, please help us celebrate our 30th year. Our sights are on a $1.7

million budget and growing, and on increasing our 25 employees to

carry on this big job. We'll celebrate an innovative agenda, well on

its way, of making possible a new agriculture by developing the

perennial crop plants that will be grown in mixtures to provide food

and numerous environmental improvements over current farm options. The

benefits will run to the farmers and the landscape and everyone who eats.

 

 

 

Please mark October 6-8 on your calendar.

 

Program and presenter bios are on our Web site—see the Calendar

section for " Prairie Festival " at www.landinstitute.org

 

 

 

On the prairie, we'll gather artists, scholars, critics, farmers,

poets, historians, environmentalists, photographers, professors,

writers, businessmen, musicians, scientists—and you—to contemplate,

share, learn and discuss.

 

 

 

Friday evening features a barn dance.

 

Saturday presentations, music, exhibits, photography and food.

 

Saturday evening in downtown Salina at Masonic Center—catered dinner

and video-like show of conservation and formation of new national

parks in Chile and Argentina.

 

Sunday back at the barn for more thinking, visiting and

discussions—adjourning at noon.

 

 

 

Presenters:

 

Ray Anderson, founder and chairman of Interface, Inc., an

environmentally conscious floor-covering company.

 

Frances Beinecke, President, Natural Resources Defense Council.

 

Wendell Berry, farmer, essayist, conservationist, novelist, teacher, poet.

 

Laura Jackson, Professor of Biology, University of Northern Iowa,

teaching ecology, conservation biology and environmental studies.

 

Wes Jackson, founder and president of The Land Institute.

 

David Orr, author of Ecological Literacy, directs Oberlin College's

Environmental Studies.

 

Jim Richardson, photographer, well-known for his work for National

Geographic Magazine.

 

Doug Tompkins, businessman, athlete, designer, environmental activist,

conservationist.

 

Jakob von Uexkull, founder of The Right Livelihood Award, also known

as the Alternative Nobel Prize, from Sweden, and past member of the

European Parliament.

 

Ann Zimmerman, Salina native, sings folksongs with her piano and guitar.

 

 

 

Joan Olsen Jackson . The Land Institute

 

2440 E. Water Well Road, Salina, KS 67401 . 785.823.5376

 

olsen . www.landinstitute.org

 

 

 

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