This year’s Ontario Heritage Conference was all about rural communities, and there were the expected presentations about saving barns and old churches. But the remarkable thing about the conference was the strong environmental theme, with the tone set by John Ikerd, a retired professor of agricultural economics. He laid out a vision of revitalized, relocalized rural communities that would solve energy and environmental problems through the production of ” solar powered renewable energy and renewability machines”- plants. He notes that times are to… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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John Ikerd: The Future of Sustainability Is Relocalization
