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- Earth Can't Afford To Keep Supporting Our Consumerist Society As It Now Exists, Prince Charles Tells Louisville Audience
Kentucky Health News Transcript of The Prince of Wales?s speech at the Cathedral of the Assumption, Louisville, following an introduction by Wendell Berry (subheads added) Ladies and gentlemen, it has been an immense pleasure to spend our last day in...
- As Part Of Louisville Visit, Prince Charles Attends Roundtable On Health And The Environment With Health And Environmental Leaders
Press pool report by Al Cross, Kentucky Health News His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived at the foot of the Big Four Bridge, an old railroad bridge recently converted into a pedestrian bridge, at 3:07 p.m. He was accompanied by Louisville Mayor...
- Usda Launches Online Tool To Link Farmers With Nearby Consumers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has unveiled its newest tool to promote local food systems, an online instrument that lets viewers see what local and regional food projects are under way in their area and read case studies, watch videos and see pictures...
- Have A Very ?berry? Summer
by Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom We?re all familiar with the USDA recommendations to eat about 2 cups of fruit per day. If that sounds daunting to you, summer might just be the perfect time to boost your fresh fruit intake with berries. While pricey most of the...
- Celebrate World Water Day Today!
Today is World Water Day, which draws attention to critical water issues around the world. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1993 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, and since then has blossomed into an international day of advocacy...
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Wendell and Mary Berry welcome Prince Charles and wife to Louisville, where prince will focus on local food and sustainability
In honor of a royal visit on Friday to Louisville by Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, who will be highlighting issues of sustainability and local food, renowned farmer-author-poet-philosopher Wendell Berry and his daughter Mary Berry, executive director of The Berry Center in New Castle, have written a welcome letter, published in The Courier-Journal. It begins:
Sir,
Your presence among us honors us. We have taken courage from your courage in opposing those who destroy for short-term profit the substance, health, and beauty of this world, which we did not make and cannot conserve except in obedience to its natural laws and to the divine imperative of human stewardship.
You will not be surprised to learn that in Kentucky, as in much of the world, the ways of conserving the land, the water, and the air are repeatedly blocked by the combination of corporate wealth, political connivance, academic complacency, and a deficit of hope where hope is most needed.
Here as elsewhere, the damages done by surface mining are severe, permanent, and largely unrestrained; the loss of land to "development" is, arithmetically, unsustainable; our use of our forests is for the most part ecologically unsound; our farmlands are eroding under an increasing burden of annual grain crops; those lands are priced beyond the reach of aspiring small farmers; and our streams are everywhere degraded by chemical and other pollutants.
But I believe you will be unsurprised also to learn that in Kentucky, as in places similarly exploited and threatened all over the world, there is a growing number of people and groups of people competently aware of, and determinedly opposed to, the diminishment of the natural health and beauty of our state and our world. We are proud to welcome you into the company of friends and allies who, like you, are unrestingly committed to the work of ecological sense and sanity. (Read more)
Sir,
Your presence among us honors us. We have taken courage from your courage in opposing those who destroy for short-term profit the substance, health, and beauty of this world, which we did not make and cannot conserve except in obedience to its natural laws and to the divine imperative of human stewardship.
You will not be surprised to learn that in Kentucky, as in much of the world, the ways of conserving the land, the water, and the air are repeatedly blocked by the combination of corporate wealth, political connivance, academic complacency, and a deficit of hope where hope is most needed.
Here as elsewhere, the damages done by surface mining are severe, permanent, and largely unrestrained; the loss of land to "development" is, arithmetically, unsustainable; our use of our forests is for the most part ecologically unsound; our farmlands are eroding under an increasing burden of annual grain crops; those lands are priced beyond the reach of aspiring small farmers; and our streams are everywhere degraded by chemical and other pollutants.
But I believe you will be unsurprised also to learn that in Kentucky, as in places similarly exploited and threatened all over the world, there is a growing number of people and groups of people competently aware of, and determinedly opposed to, the diminishment of the natural health and beauty of our state and our world. We are proud to welcome you into the company of friends and allies who, like you, are unrestingly committed to the work of ecological sense and sanity. (Read more)
- Earth Can't Afford To Keep Supporting Our Consumerist Society As It Now Exists, Prince Charles Tells Louisville Audience
Kentucky Health News Transcript of The Prince of Wales?s speech at the Cathedral of the Assumption, Louisville, following an introduction by Wendell Berry (subheads added) Ladies and gentlemen, it has been an immense pleasure to spend our last day in...
- As Part Of Louisville Visit, Prince Charles Attends Roundtable On Health And The Environment With Health And Environmental Leaders
Press pool report by Al Cross, Kentucky Health News His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived at the foot of the Big Four Bridge, an old railroad bridge recently converted into a pedestrian bridge, at 3:07 p.m. He was accompanied by Louisville Mayor...
- Usda Launches Online Tool To Link Farmers With Nearby Consumers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has unveiled its newest tool to promote local food systems, an online instrument that lets viewers see what local and regional food projects are under way in their area and read case studies, watch videos and see pictures...
- Have A Very ?berry? Summer
by Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom We?re all familiar with the USDA recommendations to eat about 2 cups of fruit per day. If that sounds daunting to you, summer might just be the perfect time to boost your fresh fruit intake with berries. While pricey most of the...
- Celebrate World Water Day Today!
Today is World Water Day, which draws attention to critical water issues around the world. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1993 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, and since then has blossomed into an international day of advocacy...