I also recommend The Essential Agrarian Reader.

Organic gardening and farming, agrarianism, and biodynamics are not rejections of technology, they are technologies coming from a different paradigm about connection and responsibility.

Namaste.

we have been lousy at learning to balance technology over the last 100 to 150 years. my only concern with looking backwards to a time before advanced technologies were available is that we will continue to fail to learn how to strike this balance.

If you are interested in learning about the environment and what we can do to preserve its natural resources by utilizing nature this is a good read….

1. Industrial Revolution of Britain

This has replaced a lot of farmers with a lot of industrial laborers. Various problems were caused along with people’s movements from the provinces to the city. For instance, the Black Death greatly became popular and a lot of people died in Britain at that time. Their corpses were buried in land in outskirts. Pasture keeps growing up in the same place now. Cows keep eating the pasture. And BSE appeared on the earth as you know. The economic growth rate of the developing country is high-level now. CO2 exhausted on the earth by this keeps increasing. Photochemical smog generated in China is carried to Japan by the west wind recently. Children in Japan cannot play outside.

2. Automotive Society that Henry Ford Invented

The automotive society made us convenient. However, a lot of new problems (vehicle exhaust emissions, traffic accidents, gases prices rising, and oil wars etc) have occurred. So we should offer transportation that uses clean energy early.

3. IT Spread

We are the societies that can exchange it by using the Internet with people all over the world now. It seems to lack the morality of people who use this in the Internet society recently. We should keep the rules and live in the Internet society. A profitable site like 21st Century Citizen is a very welcome.

A present computer has the ability to simulate the appearance of the earth after 50 years clearly. It’s top priority to execute all things advocated by the idea of “Taking a lesson from the past” immediately.

The following sentences are a part of the article concerning “Rachel Carson” that has been introduced into the English textbook that junior high school students in Japan are studying now.

Carson was a scientist who wrote anout the danger of farm chemicals. few people worried about it in the 1950s, but she did. In 1962 she finished her book Silent Spring. “Silent spring” means “a spring without life.” The book became a best-seller. It was a book that changed our view of nature. Carson was born on a farm. She loved nature all her life. She especially loved the sea. When she was a child, she liked to write. Later she wanted to be a writer or a scientist. She became both. She had cancer while she was writing Silent Spring. But she worked very hard and finished it. Some other books that she wrote are The sea Around Us and The Sense of Wonder.