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Why Agricultural Systems Thinking?

I’m gearing up to teach my favorite class again this fall at UMass, Agricultural Systems Thinking, in which we learn how to think about the many problems created by modern industrial agriculture. This...

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Climate Change News from New York

The big news coming out of the United Nations Climate Summit in N.Y. City –  following the largest climate change march in history is… ….what WILL NOT happen.   This is from a news story from the...

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Science vs. Practice in the University Culture – the Stockbridge Legacy

From time to time, questions are raised about the value of classes which offer students the opportunity to engage in  “professional practice” within a university curriculum.  Some science faculty...

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Where will the agricultural college graduates work?

My most popular blog post by far at World.edu is called “Sustainable agriculture jobs after college?”  In this essay, I try to tell the truth about the jobs situation in sustainable agriculture based...

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Western Massachusetts colleges focus on clean energy and sustainable agriculture

The National Science Foundation has awarded 3 western Massachusetts higher education institutions a grant to create a collaborative program combining clean energy studies with sustainable agriculture....

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Catholic Church “sustainability superhero” needs our help

Pope Francis has become something of a sustainability superhero today, finding his picture on the front covers of Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and TIME magazine. He has been an outspoken critic of...

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Ag College Students Contribute to Local Community

One of the most exciting programs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today is an undergraduate major with a tradition that goes back 150 years and yet still serves the citizens of the local...

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Dialogue Education has come to Academia

Re-posted from Global Learning Partners with permission of the author Dr. Daniel S. Gerber, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of...

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Urban Agriculture in the Motor City

By Matthew Kirby, UMass Sustainable Food and Farming student in the Stockbridge School of Agriculture Many symbols of American culture have come out of Detroit, Michigan.  Motown Records and classic...

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A Declaration of Values – to guide our work as academics

How often are those of us at the public university told that science must be “value-free”….. that is objective and impartial?  I disagree….. Rather, I suggest that we need to clarify the values that...

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