Rebuilding the Foodshed reviewed at Traverse City Record-Eagle
July 25, 2014
The Post Carbon Resilience Guide Rebuilding the Foodshed by Philip Ackerman-Leist was reviewed in this article on rebuilding community resilience.
From the review:
Ackerman-Leist’s book is laced with humor, research, maps—even references to literature—and he cautions against polarization and preaching for “local-only.” He notes that a diversity of options provides resilience in the face of local disasters like drought, hurricanes, and industrial accidents.
Nonetheless, he says, modernization did not require the wholesale destruction of our ability to buy from local farmers, or farmers’ ability to sell nearby. He calls on us to be food “citizens” rather than just consumers, and to identify opportunities to “re-localize” our food system for things of value to our communities that we lost by allowing only national and international food systems to dominate.