J B Mackinnon: 2 books
The Once and Future World
Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
An award-winning ecology writer goes looking for the wilderness we’ve forgotten
Many people believe that only an ecological catastrophe will change humanity’s troubled relationship with the natural world. In fact, as J.B. MacKinnon argues in this unorthodox look at the disappearing wilderness,...
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Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment.
When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a North American meal travels 1,500 miles...