In spring 2009 I did a talk entitled “Chicago 101″ at the “City From Below” conference in Baltimore. In this talk I tried to weave in and out my experiences working on AREA Chicago with more general reflections on the place in which so much of my work has been situated: the city of Chicago. [...]
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Two videos from 2009 lectures on AREA Chicago
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Book Is Complete
Posted in Uncategorized on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those who didn’t know, for the last year I’ve been working on a book of interviews with activist farmers all over the country (see the list below for a sense of the diverse and amazing places and people we visited). And today we turned in the manuscript to our publisher, Chronicle books. So its [...]
My Turn Towards Cottage Industry
Posted in Uncategorized on September 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some of you may have read the article in last month’s Chicago Reader about David Meyer’s Resistance Coffee and how we are all starting this Chicago Coffee Confederation project together. The basic gist is that we all roast fair-trade coffee on our gas grills and deliver it to people using the model of Community Supported [...]
