CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Prologue

PART 1 • WHAT MUST BE SAID NOW

1. Toward a Local Food Revolution

2. The Local Food Declaration of Independence

3. The Coming Revolution

4. Note to the Reader

PART 2 • THE MAKING OF AN EVOLUTIONARY CATALYST

5. Beginnings: The Convergence of Global Crises

6. Going Local! A Coherent Community Response

7. In Transition: A Movement Dies, Another Is Born

8. The Evolution of Transition in the United States

9. Diving into Food

PART 3 • THE FULL EXTENT OF OUR PREDICAMENT

10. Peak Everything Revisited

11. Climate Collapse: The Rogue Factor

12. Stories from the Front Lines

PART 4 • EMERGENCE: THE EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE

13. The Problem with Peak Everything

14. Patterns of Emergence: The Evolutionary Process

15. Human Evolution at the Turn

16. Message to Students

17. Radicalization

PART 5 • TOWARD DEEP REVOLUTION

18. A Truly Revolutionary Revolution

19. Deep Revolution and the Evolutionary Catalyst

PART 6 • FIELD NOTES FOR THE EMERGENCE OF A FOODSHED

20. How the Local Food Revolution Can Unfold

21. Toward a Pattern Language for Food Localization

22. Deadwood: A Parable

23. Overview of the Process

24. The Evolutionary Catalyst and the Emerging Foodshed

25. Patterns of Emergence in an Awakening Foodshed

PART 7 • REVOLUTION IN PRACTICE

26. From Theory of Change to Theory of Revolution

27. Christopher Alexander and the Evolutionary Catalyst

28. The Secrets of Cocreative Collaboration

PART 8 • THE FUTURE OF FOOD

29. Preparing for Climate Collapse

30. The Moral Challenge of Biotechnology

31. The Role of Animals in Local Food and Agriculture

32. The Promise of Controlled-Environment Agriculture

33. Shifting Local Capital into the Foodshed

34. What We All Can Do

AFTERWORD • INHABITING OUR FOODSHED

Acknowledgments

Appendix

References

Notes

Index

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