John Ikerd
How Should We Then Live?
First, I am not actually trying to tell anyone how they should live their lives. I think each of us should first decide how we think the...
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John Ikerd
- Dec 5, 2022
- 6 min
Who’s Gonna Shoot the Pig?
It is hog killing weather in southeast Iowa. When I was growing up on the farm we butchered hogs during cold spells in early winter, when...
John Ikerd
- Nov 5, 2022
- 5 min
Farm Policies for Sustainability
The essentials of sustainability may seem too philosophical or abstract to be of any real value until they are applied to real world...
John Ikerd
- Oct 18, 2022
- 4 min
Economic Principles of Sustainability
Everyone wants to be treated with dignity and respect and accepted for who they are. This is a fundamental law of nature, specifically,...
John Ikerd
- Oct 12, 2022
- 4 min
Social Principles of Sustainability
We humans are social beings and we need social relationships within families, friendships, and communities to meet our mental and...
John Ikerd
- Oct 4, 2022
- 4 min
Ecological Principles of Sustainability
Sustainable economies must be guided by the fundamental principles or laws of nature. Since economies are subsets of societies and...
John Ikerd
- Sep 7, 2022
- 5 min
Hierarchy of Sustainable Values
In a previous post I explained the basic differences among economic, social, and ethical values. Economic values meet individual,...
John Ikerd
- Aug 2, 2022
- 4 min
Systems within Systems
Distinctions among levels are based on distinctive characteristics of the particular levels. Economies obviously reflect some of the...
John Ikerd
- Jul 18, 2022
- 4 min
Sustainable Farm Management
The basic principles of managing sustainable organizations are perhaps most clearly apparent in farm management. The selective boundaries...
John Ikerd
- Jul 5, 2022
- 4 min
Worldview of Sustainable Agriculture
The hierarchical worldview of sustainability also characterizes the individual entities or smaller wholes that make up the larger whole...
John Ikerd
- Jun 15, 2022
- 4 min
The Hierarchy of Authentic Sustainability
I ended my previous post by explaining that the worldview of authentic sustainability reflects an understanding that economies are a part...
John Ikerd
- Jun 8, 2022
- 4 min
Typical Worldview of Sustainability
In my previous post, I related the “five stages of grief” to the stages of transition from an unsustainable to sustainable society. They...
John Ikerd
- Jan 10, 2022
- 4 min
WHY?
I spent much of the first thirty years of my early life preparing to be a scientist, a social scientist but nonetheless a scientist. I...
John Ikerd
- Nov 1, 2021
- 4 min
The Values of Sustainability
Everything eventually boils down to economics! How many times have we heard this assertion—as if it were settled truth? Farmers need an...
John Ikerd
- Oct 12, 2021
- 5 min
Sustainability and the Laws of Nature
We humans are subject to the same laws of nature that govern the rest of the universe. If this were not true, there would be no concern...
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