John Ikerd
Sustainable Farm Management
The basic principles of managing sustainable organizations are perhaps most clearly apparent in farm management. The selective boundaries...
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John Ikerd
- Jun 8
- 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
- May 17
- 4 min
Stages of Change to Sustainability
The “five stages of grief” are widely used to describe the process people go through in facing, and eventually accepting, the reality of...
John Ikerd
- Nov 10, 2021
- 6 min
Successful Small Family Farms: Myth or Reality?
Someone recently forwarded me a link to an opinion piece by freelance writer Sarah Mock that begins: “I tried to prove that small family...
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
- Jan 21, 2021
- 3 min
A Green New Deal for Family Farms & Rural Communities
The "Green New Deal"[i] has been systematically demonized by corporate propaganda targeting rural America. Rural people have been led to...