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The Soapboxer
Farming a divine calling? ... think again
From foraging, to herding, to farming … and each step required offending God. Humans spent 290,000 years as hunter-gatherers; then a mere 10,000 years ago we embarked on an expansionist agricultural project that has become such a runaway “success” that we refuse to truly grapple with how unsustainable it is.
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Editorial
Interviews with conventional farms
If society is to make a widespread shift towards a more sustainable, more localized and less corporate food system, two groups of people will need to be involved: food advocates (people who care about and promote better food), and average farmers (people who have the means to actually grow significant amounts of food). A key task in changing the food system is bringing these two groups, which are now largely estranged, together.
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Editorial
Groceries/Dirt
Perspectives on connecting with food from Geez 8
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Editorial
Describing the darkness
Snippets from Geez 8: The Monster issue -
Editorial
I cast a shadow
Time has rubbed away some of my prickliness about goodness. I can accept goodness as shorthand for trying to live free. Not free of my shadow, though. The only way to be free of it would be to be a formless and two-dimensional body that casts no shadow, that has no purchase in the world.
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In Geez’s Name, Amen
For Christmas last year I got Dad a saucy brass belt buckle “Jesus,” a Johnny Cash CD, and a copy of Geez Magazine. My dad’s got a pretty wacky sense of humour but I could tell he was uncomfortable with the belt buckle. I’d looked far and wide for the Christian fish symbol but when I found the garishly tacky alternate I knew I was probably going too far.
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Geez wins awards
To our surprise and delight, Geez magazine won in both categories we entered in the Western Magazine Awards 2007: Best New Publication and Magazine of the Year – Manitoba. As Manitoba winner we were eligible for the grand prize. In what some considered unprecedented, our new magazine took the overall award for Magazine of the Year-Western Canada.
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Editorial
On seeing and saving nature
What do you see when someone says “nature”?
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Experiments
Tax day of atonement
I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S BEEN A YEAR. In some ways I feel disappointed. I’d hoped a year without coffee would somehow make me into a saint. Now, my first cup of coffee in a year is brewing on the counter and I don’t think I’ll be canonized anytime soon.
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Editorial
In praise of ugly beauty
We are captivated by a narrow view of beauty. Standard, uniform, balanced beautiful beauty. Look at magazine covers. Not just for fashion and fitness. Look at the home and garden magazines, look at the car and pet magazines. All the “beauty” is similar. Smooth and “perfect.”
