It’s Organic Manifesto Month!
March 1, 2010
Dear Readers,
I know you come here for all sorts of random thoughts and rocking recipes, but starting today I am going to shift gears for a bit. The occasion? The impending launch of my new book, Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal the Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe, which comes out on March 16, 2010.
I now have the fresh, newly printed (just born) copy of my book in my winter-chapped hands, and I am so excited for people to start reading it. Why? I think… more
Comments (8)Perfect Happiness and Other Questions
January 20, 2010
My local paper, the Morning Call, asked me to answer these questions, from a book called Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire, which Rodale published last year. It’s a great book, featuring cultural figures from Jane Goodall to Johnny Cash answering a series of personal questions made popular by the French writer Marcel Proust (their answers appeared in a series in Vanity Fair magazine). It’s lots of fun to answer the… more
Comments (7)Magazines Won’t Die, But Here Is Why I Love the Internet
December 14, 2009
Last week I wrote about why I believe magazines won’t die. And it’s still true. But ironically, writing that made me love the Internet even more. Here’s why: Within minutes of posting, I had a nice email from the editor of Garden and Gun magazine. Then, four other blogs picked up my post. I checked Twitter and people were tweeting my blog like crazy—more than any other blog I’ve written… more
Comments (4)Why Magazines Won’t Die
December 9, 2009
I spend more time than most thinking about whether or not magazines will live or die, since my family and I own a few of them. I’ve been to conferences about whether or not they will survive. I am barraged by consultants trying to convince me magazines are on the verge of death, and therefore I need their services immediately, or else.
Now, I do think e-readers and Kindles and iPhones will, and to a degree already have, subsumed much of our reading and especially information needs. And… more
Comments (22)Many Solutions But Just One Choice: Al Gore Launches his New Book
November 4, 2009
Last night was a big night for me. I got to eat my first Shake Shack Burger, purportedly the best burger in Manhattan (if not the world?). It was pretty damn good. Normally I would never eat a burger if it weren’t organic. But restaurateur Danny Meyer seems to know how to handle good food, and I’m glad I took the risk—because it kept me from being hungry while I introduced the Nobel Peace Prize-winning, Honorable Vice President Al Gore at the launch party for… more
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