A
Ackerman-Leist, Philip, 301, 307
Adams, Buck, 354
An Agricultural Testament (Howard), 275–76
Agriculture
animals’ role in, 361–63
controlled-environment, 280–81, 285–86, 304, 368–72
energy input to, 47
peak industrial, 110
totalitarian, 25
urban, 129–32
Agritourism, 270
Agroecology, 273–74
Alexander, Christopher, 39, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 86, 91, 139, 143, 205, 211, 221, 222–24, 225, 228, 329–34, 338
Alves, Rubem, 248
American Revolution, 20–21, 202–3, 287
Anderson, Kevin, 121–22
Andrews, Steve, 54–55
Animals, role of, 361–63
Anthropocene epoch, 25–27, 170–73
Apple, 143
Aquaculture. See Controlled-environment agriculture
Arctic Methane Emergency Group, 124, 125
Arkansas Valley Organic Growers, 238, 270
Ashburn, Seanna, 80
Assad, Bashar al-, 18
Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO), 54, 68
Astyk, Sharon, 50–51, 103, 278
Attraction, principle of, 147
Aurobindo, Sri, 138
Ausubel, Kenny, 127
B
Bahnson, Fred, 6
Baldwin, James, 206
Bane, Peter, 272
Barlow, Connie, 138
Barocco, Janet, 73
Beckon, Brian, 296
Beckwith, Paul, 124
BeLocal, 92
Belonging, cycle of, 85
Bennett, Robert, 46
Bergson, Henri-Louis, 138
Berry, Thomas, 26, 27, 77, 80, 82, 91, 137, 138, 139, 144, 148, 149, 172, 173, 175, 177, 302
Berry, Wendell, 17, 30, 31, 202, 206, 210, 358
Biodynamics, 280
Biotechnology, moral challenge of, 357–60
Blessed Unrest (Hawken), 139
Block, Erika, 295
Bohr, Niels, 125
Boulder County Eat Local! Resource Guide and Directory, 92–93
Boulder County Farmer Cultivation Center, 96
Boulder County Farmers Markets, 269, 286
Boulder County Going Local!, 64–65, 89
Boulder Going Local, 89
Boulder Valley Relocalization, 53, 62, 89
Branding, 305
Brangwyn, Ben, 70–71
Brown, Lester R., 43
Brownlee, Michael, 260
Buddha, 201
Building Farmers, 278–79
Business Alliance for Local Loving Economies (BALLE), 60, 374
Business development companies, 99, 297
Buying clubs, 270
C
Caine, Christine, 206
Campbell, Colin, 68
Carbon emissions, 125
Card, Adrian, 278
Card, Orson Scott, 145
Carson, Rachel, 357
Carter, Jimmy, 58
Cates, Tre’, 277
Celebration, 347–48
Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute, 238
Cezanne, Paul, 17
Change. See also Revolution
drivers of, 293–94
theory of, 319
Charitable institutions, 307
Churchill, Winston, 35
Circle Fresh Farms, 354
Civilization, stages of, 166–74
Climate change (climate collapse)
economic collapse and, 119–20
effects of, 12, 109, 116, 185–87
emotional impact of, 53
feedback loops and, 122–25
human extinction and, 178–81
inner transformation and, 84
permanent nature of, 24
population and, 55
preparing for, 353–55
radicalization and, 189–96
research on, 120–22
responding to, 185–86
synonyms for, 109
Cochran, Jim, 289
Cohen, Andrew, 138
Collaboration
cocreative, 335–49
importance of, 300–301
Collapse (Diamond), 171
Collins, Rusty, 7
Colorado State University, 96, 239
Combination, principle of, 149
Commitment vs. decision, 343–44
Commodity-crop agriculture, 281, 285
Community
engaging, 346–47
resilience, 347–49
spirit, building, 261
Consciousness
emergence of, 154–55
principle of, 155
Controlled-environment agriculture, 280–81, 285–86, 304, 368–72
Copenhagen Diagnosis, 120
Cosmogenesis, 151
Course corrections, making, 346–47
Creative design, 345–46
Cruz, Sandy, 96
CSAs (community supported agriculture), 94, 230, 245, 268, 269, 270–71, 280, 289, 322–23, 382
Cure, Anne, 322–23
Cure Organic Farm, 322
D
Dandrew, Bob, 7
Darley, Julian, 50–51, 57, 63, 67, 70
Deadwood (TV series), 229
The Death of Environmentalism (Speth), 114
DeChristopher, Tim, 26–27, 189–95
Decision vs. commitment, 343–44
Declaration of Independence, 20, 28
Deep Knowledge Ventures, 169
Deep Transition, 85–86
Dellinger, Drew, 116–17
Diamond, Jared, 171
Direct marketing, 267–71
Discovery, circle of, 347
Door to Door Organics, 285
Douthwaite, Richard, 383
Dowd, Michael, 138
Drayton, William, 294
Dutia, Suren G., 263
E
Eaarth (McKibben), 127
Earth Charter, 82
Earth Literacy, 82
Eat Local! campaign, 92–94
Economic growth, peak, 109–10
Economies of Community (EOC), 323–24
Ehrlich, Paul, 6
Einstein, Albert, 161
Eisenstein, Charles, 1, 209, 292, 295, 308, 373, 378
Elgin, Duane, 317
Eliot, T. S., 162
Emergence
cataclysm and, 181–83
of catalytic cocreation, 336
of consciousness, 154–55
definition of, 81
evolution and, 156–58
of evolutionary catalysts, 206, 243–48
food localization and, 91, 158
of life, 152–53
of modern civilization, 166
principles of, 156
questions for, 349
of the Self, 164
Transition movement and, 81
of the universe, 147
The End of Suburbia (film), 54, 68
Evolution
awareness of, 158
conscious, 159–60
context and, 137–41
emergence and, 156–58
revolution and, 200–201
of the universe, 144–55, 159, 160–61, 164
as unstoppable force, 36
Evolutionaries (Phipps), 139
Evolutionary catalysts
deep revolution and, 205–11
examples of, 189, 190, 193, 196, 238–39
for food localization, 89–90, 227, 238–40, 243–48
motivations of, 199–200
power of, 195
requirements for being, 108
stages of, 206–11
support for, 139
vision of, 338–39
Evolutionary threshold, concept of, 127
Extinction
events, major, 176
inevitability of, 178
patterns of, 174–77
Extinction Dialogs (McPherson and Baker), 178–79
F
Farmers markets, 94–95, 101, 230, 245, 268, 269, 289
virtual, 270
Farmigo, 323–24
Farm-to-table dinners, 270
Fear, 114–15
Flannery, Tim, 61
Food. See also Agriculture; Food localization; Food security; Industrial food system; Local food revolution
future of, 187
global demand for, 263
peak, 112
processed, 30
skills, building essential, 253–54
Food and Agriculture Policy Council, 96
Food and Water Watch, 100
Food Inc. (film), 102
Food localization. See also Local food revolution
animals’ role in, 361–63
barriers to, 266–67, 291–92, 310
baseline assessment for, 255–56
branding and, 305
capital for, 216, 282–84, 292–93, 295–99, 312–13, 373–82
catalysts for, 89–90
change and, 27
charitable institutions and, 307
climate collapse and, 353–55
collaboration and, 300–301
community spirit and, 261
data resources for, 312
direct marketing and, 267–71
economic development and, 97–99, 256–57, 303
education campaign for, 253
effects of, 215
evolutionary catalysts for, 89–90, 227, 238–40, 243–48
getting involved in, 383–86
goals for, 257–58
growth of, 10
identifying opportunities for, 264, 265–66, 291–92, 310
infrastructure for, 239–41, 247, 288–90
innovation and, 304
institutional buyers and, 305–6
management experience and, 300
need for, 34–35
pattern language for, 91, 221–28
personal production and, 259
policy changes and, 307
production capacity and, 233–34, 239–40, 245, 263–86, 311–12, 365–67
regenerative nature of, 22
resistance to, 24, 217, 219, 235
restaurants and, 284
retail sales and, 284–85
supply and demand, 94–95, 101–3, 216, 230, 233–34, 244–45, 249–51, 258–59, 286, 311–12
technical assistance for, 299–300
as wicked problem, 217
Foodopoly, 100
Food security
lack of, 7–8
regaining, 8
Foodshed
alliance, 303
barriers to growth of, 239
defining, 254–55
regional, 241, 248, 309–10, 313
shifting local capital into, 373–82
thinking like, 11, 216, 259–60
Foundation for the Study of Consciousness, 144
Fox, Matthew, 82–83
Freedom
return to, 163–64
Free Speech Movement, 19
French Revolution, 202
Fritz, Robert, 341
Fuller, Buckminster, 38, 63, 113
Fullerton, John, 277
Future Farmers of America, 279
G
Garcia, John David, 141
Gardening, 259
Garrett, Tim, 125
Gebser, Jean, 138
General Mills, 359
Generativity, principle of, 152
Genesis Farm, 80, 83, 84, 138, 171
Glendinning, Chellis, 78
Global Carbon Project, 120
Global warming. See Climate change
GMO OMG (film), 358
Gore, Al, 60
Government, engaging local, 306–7
Grace, Stephen, 129–32
Greenhouses. See Controlled-environment agriculture
Green Revolution, 12–13
Greer, John Michael, 67, 80, 109
Grey, Pamela, 72
Grim, John, 144
Groom, Charles, 170
Grow! (Grace), 129
Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land (Nabhan), 354
Grow Local Colorado, 36
H
Hadley Center for Meteorological Research, 120
Hamilton, Clive, 116
Hands, John, 165
Hanthorn, Lynette Marie, 45, 49, 63, 72, 127, 171
Harris, Patricia, 308
Harvey, Andrew, 29
Hauter, Wenonah, 100
Hayes, Anita, 314
Hazel’s Beverage World, 381
Health, peak, 111
Heart and Soul work, 83–84, 349
Hedges, Chris, 200, 205, 209, 243
Heinberg, Richard, 36, 51, 54, 62, 68, 72, 73–74, 81, 105, 108, 126, 169, 278
Hell and High Water (McIntosh), 84
Hemming, Silke, 365
High Plains Food Co-Op, 270
Holistic range management, 276–77
Hoop houses. See Controlled-environment agriculture
Hopkins, Rob, 68–71, 72, 73, 78–79, 83, 388
Howard, Albert, 275–76
Howard, Laura, 321
Hubbard, Barbara Marx, 138
Hubble, Edwin, 140
Hurricane Sandy, 196
Huxley, Aldous, 58
Hydroponics. See Controlled-environment agriculture
I
Identity
formation of, 342–43
principle of, 148
An Inconvenient Truth (film), 60–61
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (film), 344–45
Industrial food system
backlash against, 100
environmental issues and, 5–6
food insecurity and, 7–8
inevitable fate of, 6–7, 187, 218
violence and, 221
Industrial Revolution, 24, 25, 168–69, 202
Information, transforming role of, 340, 341–42
Information age, 169–70
Inner Transition, 83–84
Innovation, encouraging, 304
Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money (Tasch), 99
Institutional food buyers, 305–6
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 120, 122, 187, 192
International Energy Agency (IEA), 120, 121
IRAs, self-directed, 284
J
Jesus, 201
Jiminy Cricket syndrome, 51–52
Johnston, Charles M., 145
Jordan, Harry, 47
Journey of the Universe (film), 144
Jung, Carl, 210
K
Kaiser Permanente, 306
Kauffman, Stuart, 158
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 114, 389
Kingsolver, Barbara, 233
Kirschenmann, Fred, 9, 274, 278
Kirschvink, Joe, 175
Klare, Michael, 112
Klein, Naomi, 195–96
Korten, David, 169
Kunstler, James Howard, 51–52, 54, 61, 109, 126, 197, 378
L
Lam, Marco, 96
Land Institute, 274
Landscape, reading the, 267
Lebow, Victor, 375
LeVan, Brook and Rose, 238
Lewis, V., 314
Lexicon of Sustainability, 321
Life, emergence of, 152–53
Light, Malcolm, 125
Listening to the Land (Jensen), 76–77
Local Dollars, Local Sense (Shuman), 97
Local food culture, cultivating, 261–62, 308–9
Local Food Declaration of Independence, 15–16
Local Food Investments, 297
Local food pioneers, learning from, 252–53
Local food revolution. See also Food localization
answering the call of, 10
catalytic impact of, 27
challenges and obstacles for, 12–13, 216
change and, 27
as evolutionary transition, 21–23
founders of, 9
inevitability of, 102
motivations for, 101
new language for, 321–26
purpose of, 29–30
as real revolution, 28–29
as spontaneous uprising, 8, 22, 100
unfolding of, 215–19, 234–36, 287–88
Local food revolutionaries, needs of, 36–39
Local Food Shift (magazine), 326–27, 381–82
Local Food Shift Group, 89
Local: The New Face of Food and Farming in America (Gayeton), 321
Localwashing, 236
The Long Emergency (Kunstler), 51–52, 54, 109, 197
Lovelock, James, 113
Lufa Farms, 371
The Luminous Ground (Alexander), 330–31
Lyon, David, 308
M
Macy, Joanna, 36, 83, 114, 169, 349, 351
Management experience, 300
Marcelis, Leo F. M., 365
Marom, Yotam, 196
MASH (film and TV series), 143
Maslow, Abraham, 77
May Farms, 270
McKibben, Bill, 127, 190, 195, 196
McLaughlin, Sue, 308
McPherson, Guy, 119–24, 135–36, 178–79
Meat, 361–63
Meatonomics (Simon), 361
Milch, David, 229
Miller, Dana, 36
MM Local, 282
Mobility, principle of, 154
Mollison, Bill, 91
Morin, Will, 308
Muhammad, 201
Mulvany, P. M., 314
N
Nabhan, Gary Paul, 354
Natural Grocers, 9
The Nature of Order (Alexander), 39, 91, 330
Nestlé, 359
New Forest Farm, 272
Newitz, Annalee, 176
Newmark, Tom, 277
No Small Potatoes, 297
NSA (neighborhood supported agriculture), 270
O
Obama, Barack, 190
Occupy movement, 27, 196, 237, 320
The Oil Drum, 52
Olmstead, Gracy, 308
Opportunities, identifying, 264, 265–66, 291–92, 310
Organic food
certification of, 280
hydroponics and, 371–72
market size for, 100
Osentowski, Jerome, 238
Oxfam, 263
Ozuké, 282
P
Pattern language
for food localization, 91, 221–28
Transition movement and, 79, 83
A Pattern Language (Alexander), 39, 79, 91, 330
Peak Everything
emergence and, 181–83
food and, 25, 46–48, 61–62, 112
interrelated nature of, 112–13
problem with, 135–37
responding to, 49–52, 56, 57–63, 117, 321
seriousness of, 113
summary of, 109–12
synonyms for, 108–9
Peak oil. See Peak Everything
Permaculture
food localization and, 91
introducing, 271–72
pattern language and, 223
training in, 95–96
Transition movement and, 81–82
Pfeiffer, Dale Allen, 47–48
Phipps, Carter, 139
Policy changes, guiding and influencing, 307
Polk, William R., 19
Population
climate change and, 55
collapse, 112
peak, 111–12
Post Carbon Institute, 50, 51, 53, 60, 67, 68, 72, 278
Potential, principle of, 146
Poudre Valley Community Farm, 238
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (film), 57
Power Politics (Roy), 127
Powers of the Universe (video series), 172
Pratt, Emmanuel, 368
Presencing, 91
Press, power of the, 20–21
PricewaterhouseCoopers, 121
Q
Quinn, Megan, 57
R
Radicalization, 189–96
Randall, Lisa, 174
Range management, holistic, 276–77
Real Food Challenge, 306
Reality, discovery of, 341
Red Wagon Organic Farm, 271
The Reflexive Universe (Young), 139, 144
Regenerative agriculture, 271, 272–73
Regional Food Authorities, 297
Relocalization Network, 50, 51, 53, 60, 67
“A Renaissance of Local!,” 93
Requiem for a Species (Hamilton), 116
Reskilling, 95
Restaurant sales, 284
Restoration Agriculture Institute, 273
Restorative economics, 99, 292–93, 373, 379
Retail sales, 284
ReVision, 238
Revolution. See also Local food revolution
causes of, 9
definition of, 9
entropy and, 200
evolution and, 200–201
funding for, 381
igniting, 237
negative connotation of, 201
real, 28–29
Rich, Celine, 51
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 182
Robbins, Tim, 151–52
Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, 238
Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance, 314
Ronen, Benzi, 323–25
Root, Terry, 192
Roy, Arundhati, 127
Ruppert, Michael C., 48, 86, 179
S
Sacred Activism, 29
Sagan, Carl, 107
Sahtouris, Elisabet, 276
Sandpoint, Idaho, 76
Saunders, Kyle, 52–53
Savio, Mario, 19
Savory, Allan, 107, 110, 275, 277, 315, 362
Scharmer, Otto, 91
Seifert, Jeremy, 358
Self, emergence of, 164
Self-organization, concept of, 81
Shepard, Mark, 272–73
The Shock Doctrine (Klein), 195
Shuanghui International, 362
Shuman, Michael, 97–98, 99, 216, 283, 297, 374
Sibbet, David, 139, 143, 335–36
Silo effect, 115
Simmons, Matt, 58
Simon, David, 361
Slow money movement, 97, 99, 283, 292–93, 296, 297, 373–74, 378, 380–82
Smithfield Foods, 362
Social entrepreneurs, 240, 265–66, 293–95
Soil
loss, 110–11
rebuilding and cultivating, 274–76
Something-for-nothing syndrome, 51–52
Steiner, Rudolf, 280
Stephenson, Wen, 189, 190–91, 193, 195–96
Suicide, 111
Summers, Marshall Vian, 45, 49, 53, 63
Supernovas, 172–73
Sustainable Settings, 238
Swimme, Brian, 27, 79, 91, 137, 138, 139, 144, 148, 149, 172, 173, 174, 175, 177
Syrian Civil War, 17–19
T
Tasch, Woody, 20, 97, 99, 169, 283, 293, 373, 374, 377, 380
Technical assistance, 299–300
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 138, 200, 202
Theory U (Scharmer), 91
Thermodynamic equilibrium, 151
Timeless Way of Building (Alexander), 143, 211, 221, 222, 228
Toba event, 166–67
Totnes, England, 69–70
Transition Boulder County, 72, 89
Transition Denver, 36
The Transition Handbook (Hopkins), 70, 79
Transition movement
catalysts within, 91
evolution of, 78–87
in North America, 71–78, 171–72
in the United Kingdom, 69–70, 73, 75
Turn, concept of, 151–52, 162–63, 343–44
2Forks Investments, 297
Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research, 121
U
Unholy Alliance
backlash against, 100
biggest fear of, 24
declaring independence from, 23
members of, 5
United Nations
Environmental Program, 120, 121, 125
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 120, 122, 187, 192
The Universe Story (Swimme and Berry), 91, 137, 139, 144
Unknown, living with, 342
Urban agriculture, 129–32
V
Value-added producers, cultivating, 281–82
Vision, importance of, 338–39
Wages of Rebellion (Hedges), 200, 205, 209, 243
Walking Away from Empire (McPherson), 119
Washington, George, 20
Waste Farmers, 275
Westerman, Floyd Red Crow, 86–87
Westwood Community Food Co-op, 238
Wilber, Ken, 138
Williams, Terry Tempest, 191, 194–95
Willits, California, 68
World Made by Hand (Kunstler), 52
World War II, 7, 169, 230, 232, 259
Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF), 280
World Wildlife Fund, 263
Y
Yee, Larry, 289