1. Rob Jordan, “Stanford Researcher Declares that the Sixth Mass Extinction Is Here,” Stanford Report, June 19, 2015, http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/june/mass-extinction-ehrlich-061915.html.
2. Fred Bahnson, Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith.
3. The goal of that ambitious project, launched in the aftermath of 9/11, is “to help our region feed itself.”
4. Food Commons 2.0
5. A technology-driven initiative to increase agricultural production in developing countries, which took place from the mid-1930s to late 1960s.
6. Spoken on the steps of Sproul Hall, UC Berkeley, December 2, 1964.
7. Robert F. Kennedy, “The Alliance for Progress: Symbol and Substance,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 1966.
8. Woody Tasch, “Commons Nth: Common Sense for a Post Wall Street World: A Simple, Pragmatic and Neighborly Call to Action for the Age after Rogue Computer Algorithms, CDOs, GMOs, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Food Deserts, Desert Storms, and All Those Endowments, Pension Funds, Mutual Funds and Other Ungodly Humungous Institutional Pools of Capital that Are about to Discover Conscientious Investing, Saying No! to Oil and Yes! to Soil.” Available at www.austinfoodshedinvestors.org/uploads/1/7/5/4/17545577/commons_nth_pamphlet.pdf.
9. Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (New York: Bantam, 1995).
10. Thomas Berry, The Great Work: Our Way into the Future (New York: Bell Tower, 1999).
11. Interview by Terry Tempest Williams, “What Love Looks Like,” Orion (December 2011).
12. Carolyn Baker, Love in the Age of Apocalypse: Cultivating the Relationships We Need to Thrive (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2015).
13. Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers, Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future (Cambridge, MA: SoL, 2004).
14. Most of the time, when I use the words we, our, and us, I am referring to this extraordinary collaboration. Lynette Marie could easily be considered the coauthor of much of the material in this book.
15. Founder of the Co-Intelligence Institute.
16. Cofounder of the Berkana Institute.
17. Dale Allen Pfeiffer, “Eating Fossil Fuels,” originally published on From the Wilderness, October 2003, www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/100303_eating_oil.html. The website From the Wilderness was started by Michael C. Ruppert, author of Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil.
18. Dale Allen Pfeiffer, Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2006).
19. Darley’s book was scheduled to be published by New Society Publishers in the fall of 2005, but it was never released.
20. Quoted by Michael Ruppert in “The Paradigm is the Enemy,” a presentation at the Local Solutions to the Energy Dilemma Conference, New York, 2006.
21. James Howard Kunstler, “After the Oil Is Gone,” interview by Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon, May 15, 2015, www.salon.com/2005/05/14/kunstler.
22. “We Can Also Draw on Historical Experience Regarding Denial,” The Oil Drum, July 2005, www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/07/we-can-also-draw-on-historical.html.
23. Personal journal notes.
24. Kunstler, The Long Emergency.
25. Produced by the Community Solution, April 2006.
26. Veteran oil industry analyst and author of the seminal book Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2005).
27. Author of The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth (New York: Grove Press, 2005).
28. Julian Darley, interview by Michael Brownlee, HopeDance (July 2006).
29. Campbell published two influential papers with Jean Laherrère: “The Coming Oil Crisis” and “The End of Cheap Oil” Scientific American, March 1998.
30. Rob Hopkins, The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependence to Local Resilience (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2008).
31. Hopkins, The Transition Handbook.
32. The board of Post Carbon Institute had persuaded Darley to leave, had returned to its roots as a think tank, and was now headed by Asher Miller.
33. Tom Atlee, the Co-Intelligence Institute, www.co-intelligence.org/crisis_fatigue.html. Chapter 3
34. There were 159 official U.S. initiatives as of December 2015.
35. Derrick Jensen, Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture, and Eros (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1995).
36. Thomas Berry, The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 157.
37. Thomas Berry, “The World of Wonder,” Spiritual Ecology, The Cry of the Earth, ed. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, (Point Reyes, CA: The Golden Sufi Center, 2013), 21.
38. Chellis Glendinning, My Name Is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization (Boston: Shambhala, 1994), ix.
39. The book was eventually published as The Transition Companion, but is much different from its original conception. Hopkins’s website is Transition Network (www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins). He also has an older website, which is no longer active but is archived, which has a lot of useful information (www.TransitionCulture.org).
40. “Principle 11: Use edges and value the marginal,” http://permac-ultureprinciples.com/principles/_11.
41. “Earth Literacy,” Three Eyes of Universe, www.threeeyesofuniverse.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=110&Itemid=212.
42. Regarded as “an ethical framework for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society,” Earth Charter, http://earthcharter.org/discover.
43. Matthew Fox, interview by Derrick Jensen, in Derrick Jensen, Listening to the Land (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2002), 70–71.
44. See her website, The Work That Reconnects, http://workthatre-connects.org.
45. Both of these statements were made in Transition workshops.
46. Alastair McIntosh, Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2012).
47. David Orr, interview by Derrick Jensen, in Derrick Jensen, Listening to the Land, 31.
48. “(Part 1) Indigenous Native American Prophecy (Elders Speak part 1),” YouTube video, 6:36, posted by “MadRazorRay,” September 4, 2007, www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7cylfQtkDg&list=PL05F4C7427A3AEFA7&index=1.
49. Group self-facilitation techniques developed by Harrison Owen.
50. Michael H. Shuman, “The 25 Percent Shift: The Benefits of Food Localization for Boulder County and How to Realize Them,” Transition Colorado, 2012, http://community-wealth.org/sites/clone.community-wealth.org/files/downloads/report-shuman12.pdf.
51. Woody Tasch, Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing As If Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2008).
52. John Ikerd, “The Sustainable Agriculture Revolution: Right and By Nature,” paper presented at the 37th Ohio Ecological Food and Farming Conference, Granville, Ohio, February 13–14, 2016 (and available at www.localfoodshift.pub/the-sustainable-agriculture-revolution-right-and-by-nature).
53. Wenonah Hauter, Foodopoly: The Battle over the Future of Food and Farming in America (New York: New Press, 2012). Also see www.foodopoly.org.
54. Sharon Astyk, A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil, 11.
55. David W. Orr, Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
56. Tony Dokoupil, “Why Suicide Has Become an Epidemic—and What We Can Do to Help,” Newsweek, May 23, 2013.
57. Michael T. Klare, “The Hunger Wars in Our Future,” Tom Dispatch, August 2012, www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175579.
58. James Lovelock, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning (London: Allen Lane, 2009).
59. Margaret Wheatley, “The Big Learning Event,” www.margaret-wheatley.com/articles/Wheatley-The-Big-Learning-Event.pdf.
60. James Gustave Speth, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008).
61. Clive Hamilton, Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change (London: Earthscan, 2010).
62. With Carolyn Baker, McPherson subsequently coauthored Extinction Dialogs: How to Live with Death in Mind (Oakland, CA: Next Revelation Press, 2014). McPherson’s chapter, “Abrupt Climate Change: Giving New Meaning to ‘Hard’ Science,” may be the best survey of climate change literature currently in print. The ebook version may be the most valuable, as it is replete with hyperlinks.
63. Nature Bats Last: http://guymcpherson.com.
64. I highly recommend the video of his presentation, which contains much valuable information. All the updates to McPherson’s work, including a video of his Boulder presentation, can be found on his website, Nature Bats Last (http://guymcpherson.com).
65. By the time Extinction Dialogs was published, McPherson had identified an additional twelve feedback loops.
66. The report that this quote is from is no longer on the website of the Arctic Methane Emergency Group.
67. I’m forced to rely on McPherson’s research accuracy in this chapter, as I do not have access to most of the documents he references.
68. Timothy J. Garrett, “Are There Basic Physical Constraints on Future Anthropogenic Emissions of Carbon Dioxide?” Climatic Change, 104, no. 3 (February 2011): 437–55.
69. Malcolm Light, “Global Extinction within One Human Lifetime as a Result of a Spreading Atmospheric Artic Methane Heat Wave and Surface Firestorm,” Arctic News, February 9, 2012, http: //arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/global-extinction-within-one-human.html.
70. John Howard Kunstler, “Making Other Arrangements,” Orion, https://orionmagazine.org/article/making-other-arrangements.
71. Arundhati Roy, Power Politics (Cambridge, MA: South End, 2002), 7.
72. Bill McKibben, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (New York: Times, 2010), 27.
73. And the people reading this, of course.
74. Steve Grace, Grow! Stories from the Urban Food Movement (Bozeman, MT: Bangtail, 2015).
75. For the complete interview, see “From Despair to Optimism: The Transformational Journey of Steve Grace, Author of Grow!” interview by Michael Brownlee, Local Food Shift, September 8, 2015, www.localfoodshift.pub/from-despair-to-optimism.
76. Why do we settle for beliefs rather than pursuing our need to know?
77. We cannot be “placed based” until we know where and when we are.
78. My encounter with Teilhard began in 1964, the year The Future of Man was published. A copy somehow found its way to me that year—a gift from a distant relative—when I was a senior in high school. I could not comprehend the words then, but I knew this book and this gaunt priest were terribly important. In fact, that copy of The Future of Man resides on my primary bookshelf even today.
79. Carter Phipps, Evolutionaries: Unlocking the Spiritual and Cultural Potential of Science’s Greatest Idea (New York: Harper Perennial, 2012).
80. By “God,” Alexander means it in the same sense as Stuart Kauffman in Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason and Religion (New York: Basic, 2008), where he forges a common ground between religion and science by redefining God not as a supernatural creator but as the natural creativity in the universe.
81. John David Garcia, Creative Transformation: A Practical Guide for Maximizing Creativity (Eugene, OR: Noetic, 1991).
82. Sibbet was a central member of Young’s study group at the Institute for the Study of Consciousness, in Berkeley, studying theories of process.
83. Brian Thomas Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker, Journey of the Universe: An Epic Story of Cosmic, Earth, and Human Transformation, directed by Patsy Northcutt and David Kennard (Mill Valley, CA, Northcutt Productions: 2013) DVD.
84. At this stage, these particles cannot be called subatomic, because atoms do not yet exist.
85. Brian Swimme, and Thomas Berry, The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era—A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos (San Francisco, CA: HarperSan Francisco, 1992), 18.
86. Swimme and Berry, The Universe Story.
87. Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume (Toronto: Bantam, 1984).
88. MIT’s Jeremy England is exploring the possibility that “life is a consequence of physical laws, not something random.” Some are already calling him the next Darwin. See Meghan Walsh, “Jeremy England, the Man who May One-Up Darwin,” Ozy, April 20, 2015, www.ozy.com/rising-stars/the-man-who-may-one-up-darwin/39217.
89. The second law of thermodynamics, which decrees that entropy is positive. “Entropy is the tendency of the energies associated with inorganic substances to become more uniformly distributed—of stones to run downhill, and hot objects, emitting heat, to grow cooler—so that the total energy in a given area or system gradually becomes unavailable by averaging out. This tendency … is implied in the so-called billiard ball hypothesis, which conceives of the universe as a gradually subsiding agitation of lifeless objects,” Arthur M. Young, The Reflexive Universe: The Evolution of Consciousness (New York: Delacorte, 1976).
90. At that time, oxygen was only 0.03 percent of today’s levels.
91. Estimates for the total number of species of life on the planet vary widely.
92. See John Stewart, “The Evolutionary Manifesto,” www.evolutionarymanifesto.com.
93. In The Reflexive Universe, Young demonstrates that each of the seven stages of the evolution of the universe has seven substages. It is beyond the purpose of this book to explore the principles of substages in depth, but interested readers are encouraged to consider these on their own.
94. John Stewart’s phrase, in “The Evolutionary Manifesto.”
95. It is perhaps limiting and even incorrect to speak about the universe as a “thing” or a being that is evolving through a process of emergence. We may more accurately say that something is emerging or being expressed through the evolution of the universe. It matters little whether we name it the Monad, Self, Great Mystery, Wakan Tanka, God, Creator, or Primal Force. What matters is that there is a fundamental force underlying the evolution of the universe.
96. Stuart Kauffman, Reinventing the Sacred.
97. This is a radical, even revolutionary, shift from our previous understanding, which said that the universe is essentially fixed, serving as a mere backdrop for our drama.
98. Young, The Reflexive Universe.
99. Daniel Quinn, “The Little Engine That Couldn’t: How We’re Preparing Ourselves and Our Children for Extinction,” 3tags, http://3tags.org/article/the-little-engine-that-couldnt-how-were-preparing-ourselves-and-our-children-for-extinction. This was originally an address delivered at the annual conference of the North American Association for Environmental Education, Vancouver, BC, on August 16, 1997.
100. Rob Wile, “A Venture Capital Firm Just Named an Algorithm to Its Board of Directors—Here’s What It Actually Does,” Business Insider, May 13, 2014, www.businessinsider.com/vital-named-to-board-2014-5.
101. It’s possible to view the entire seven stages of the emergence of modern society as the Turn for humanity. This requires some contemplation. During this period, religion has been a major organizing principle. And now, in the twenty-first century, religion may finally fulfill its potential and become the primary catalytic force.
102. The sixth extinction, although how many species will become extinct—and over what period of time—is a matter of some disagreement.
103. Cuba’s experience of shifting to an agricultural system largely free of fossil fuels is instructive.
104. Jared M. Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (New York: Viking, 2005).
105. Brian Swimme, The Powers of the Universe, directed by Dan Anderson (Center for the Study of the Universe, 2005), DVD.
106. Swimme and Berry, The Universe Story. Scientists believe that our own solar system had its origins in the explosion of a supernova, see Charles Q. Choi, “Exploding Star May Have Led to Formation of Our Solar System,” NBC News, August 6, 2012, www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48531601/ns/technology_and_science-space/#.UCfSTmOe530. Science writer Connie Barlow (wife of evolutionary evangelist Michael Dowd) suggests that we are composed of elements from more than twenty supernovas. And for what it’s worth, supernovas only seem to occur in spiral galaxies.
107. “In every mass extinction, the world is changed forever—but over a short, terrifying two million years, rather than a slow billion.” Annalee Newitz, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (New York: Anchor, 2014).
108. Newitz, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember.
109. The science is far from settled on these matters. We invite the reader to explore the growing literature of extinction. In addition to the causes listed in this list of major extinctions, other triggers include cosmic gamma ray bursts, geomagnetic reversal, and disruption of thermo-haline ocean circulation.
110. This gives us a clue to the deeper meaning of resilience: the ability to withstand and recover from shocks. And it should give us a sense that, in evolutionary terms, the world can change very quickly.
111. Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (New York: Henry Holt, 2014), 268–69.
112. Swimme and Berry, The Universe Story.
113. Paul Kingsnorth, “Opening Our Eyes to the Nature of This Earth,” Tricycle, Spring 2015.
114. Baker and McPherson, introduction to Extinction Dialogs.
115. The Kindle version may be the most valuable, as it is replete with hyperlinks.
116. Ruppert committed suicide before the production was complete. “Apocalypse, Man: Michael C. Ruppert on World’s End (Part 1),” YouTube video, 10:14, posted by “Vice,” January 21, 2014, www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNVHbzlzUS8.
117. That essay later became a key chapter in Stephenson’s recent book, What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice (Boston, Beacon Press, 2015).
118. Bill McKibben, interview by Wen Stephenson, “Bill McKibben: Love and Justice,” The Roost, March 21, 2012, http://thoreaufarm.org/2012/03/bill-mckibben-love-and-justice.
119. Quoted by Stephenson in What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other.
120. Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism and Climate (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2015).
121. Wen Stephenson, “‘I’d Rather Fight Like Hell’: Naomi Klein’s Fierce New Resolve to Fight for Climate Change,” Phoenix, December 14, 2012, http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/148879-id-rather-fight-like-hell-naomi-kleins-fierce.
122. Our understanding of such matters is primitive.
123. Adbusters, November 22–29, 2010.
124. Chris Hedges, Wages of Rebellion (New York: Nation Books, 2015).
125. “A revolution is coming—a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough—but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character, we cannot alter its inevitability.” Robert F. Kennedy, “The Alliance for Progress: Symbol and Substance.”
126. Every major religion began as a small cult.
127. Wendell Berry, Our Only World: Ten Essays (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2015).
128. Jack Kloppenburg’s reference to Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings, by John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess (New York: New Catalyst Books, 2007), a guidebook for deep ecology work originally inspired by Aldo Leopold’s essay in A Sand County Almanac.
129. Compiled by Strolling of the Heifers (www.strollingoftheheifers.com/locavoreindex), the index is based on a comparison of per-capita direct sales, farmers markets, food hubs, and percentage of school districts with farm-to-school programs. Colorado’s rank, sadly, is down from 19 in 2012.
130. We know this from our colleague Philip Ackerman-Leist, a farmer who teaches at Green Mountain College and is the author of Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems (Santa Rosa, CA: Post Carbon Institute, 2013). When he came to Boulder in 2012, he said that Vermont was then at 5 percent and that the next 5 percent was going to be a lot more difficult.
131. Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), x–xi.
132. Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building, xii.
133. Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977), xiii.
134. Christopher Alexander, Hajo Neis, Artemis Anninou, and Ingrid F. King, A New Theory of Urban Design (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 18–20.
135. Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building, 3–15.
136. Deadwood was nearly the last thing I ever watched on television, and it was easily the best television I ever experienced.
137. We see this happening in Colorado and Boulder County.
138. Permaculture teacher Adam Brock in Denver is currently writing a book, People + Pattern (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, forthcoming), which applies the principles of pattern language to social change, formulating an easy-to-understand, actionable set of solutions for “social design”—a compassionate and methodical approach to building better community. Many of the patterns Brock identifies are especially applicable to stage four.
139. Micah White, The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution (Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2016).
140. This reorientation puts us in some tension with our surroundings, which are largely industrialized and urbanized and do not support localization.
141. It’s reasonable to consider that food localization is a gradual process. But in the face of global emergency, we may also need to quickly develop emergency measures.
142. David Holmgren, Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability (Hepburn, Australia: Holmgren Design Services, 2002).
143. In 2016 they will also operate the Union Station Farmers Market in Denver.
144. Mark Shepard, Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Permaculture for Farmers (Austin, TX: Acres U.S.A., 2013).
145. Sir Albert Howard, An Agricultural Testament (London: New York, 1940).
146. Despite these important efforts, the rate of new farmers coming into Colorado agriculture has declined by 23 percent over the last five years (according to Dr. David Brown, Cornell University, and the Colorado Governor’s Agricultural Forum, February 18, 2016).
147. At this stage, few can afford their own kitchen space and are forced to rent appropriately equipped kitchens on a part-time basis. Competition for such facilities can become intense.
148. “Accredited investors” are defined by the SEC as investors who are “financially sophisticated” and have a net worth in excess of $1,000,000 or an annual income of at least $200,000.
149. Some independent farmers and food artisans have benefited from Whole Foods’ Local Producer Loan Program.
150. I’m avoiding the formal (capitalized) term Slow Money to distinguish the mindset from the Slow Money organization itself; “slow money” is a mindset, as is “food localization” or even “the local food shift.”
151. Woody Tasch has called this a Slow Muni.
152. Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta dominate in this sector.
153. Micah White’s website is Boutique Activist Consultancy, http://activist.boutique. See also his new book, The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution.
154. Douglas Gayeton, Local: The New Face of Food and Farming in America (New York: Harper Design, 2014).
155. A project of Local Food Catalysts, LLC, a social venture we started in December 2014.
156. Christopher Alexander, The Luminous Ground, vol. 4 of The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe (Berkeley, CA: Center for Environmental Structure, 2004), 142.
157. Alexander, The Luminous Ground, 302–3.
158. Alexander, The Luminous Ground, 303–4.
159. Isn’t this what we’re doing in a foodshed, allowing the wholeness to unfold?
160. Alexander, The Luminous Ground, 304.
161. Alexander, The Luminous Ground, 310–12.
162. Robert Fritz, Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989).
163. Especially The Work That Reconnects (http://workthatreconnects.org), and her recently updated book (cowritten with Molly Young Brown), Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects (Vancouver: New Society, 2014).
164. Dr. Albert Bartlett reminds us of journalist Eric Sevareid’s declaration long ago that the greatest source of problems is solutions.
165. For more information about the film, see “GMO OMG! The Story behind the Movie,” Organic Connections, http://organicco-nnectmag.com/project/gmo-omg-story-behind-movie.
166. “Fight the GM Food Scare” Science Agenda, Scientific American (September 2013), 10.
167. David Robinson Simon, Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much—and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter (Newburyport, MA: Conari Press, 2013).
168. The Colorado population is expected to soar to as many as ten million people by 2050.
169. Leo F. M. Marcelis, Wageningen Greenhouse Horticulture, The Netherlands.
170. Charles Eisenstein, Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition (Berkeley: Evolver Editions, 2011).
171. With apologies, I must admit that I’ve lost track of the source of this powerful statement.
172. In most regions, channeling just one half of 1 percent of their monies tied up in nonlocal stocks, bonds, and various investment funds would provide sufficient capital to achieve 25 percent food localization (in Colorado that amounts to nearly $2 billion!).
173. “Interview with the Lunatic Farmer Joel Salatin,” by Karen Pendergrass, Paleo Movement, October 18, 2015, http://paleofoundation.com/joel-salatin.