Via online issue. 3 pages., Report on Wendell Berry's remarks for the 2012 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Speaker suggests appreciating the word "economy" for its original meaning of "household management. ... I mean, not economics, but economy, the making of the human household upon the earth; the arts of adapting kindly the many human households to the earth's many ecosystems and human neighborhoods. This is the economy that the most public and influential economists never talk about, the economy that is the primary vocation and responsibility of every one of us."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07334
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Pages 145-183 in Anna-Katharina Hornidge and Christoph Antweiler (eds.), Environmental uncertainty and local knowledge: Southeast Asia as a laboratory of global ecological change. Transcript, Bielefeld, Germany. 284 pages., Calls for sensitivity to local conditions, issues, uncertainties and knowledge. Notes loss in local knowledge. "Agencies need to realise that cultural diversity and local people's knowledge and practices should contribute significantly to our understanding and protection of natural environments."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D02960
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Website of International Public Relations Association. Article 134. 5 pages., Report of an award-winning public relations project in the Environmental category involving redevelopment of a small farming community in southeastern Turkey. Part of it involved encouraging production of saffron rather than cotton (which requires more water).
International: Two Sides North America, Inc., Chicago, Illinois.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: D11532
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3 pages., Online via publisher website., Article from the non-profit organization, Two Sides North America. It reported progress in a campaign to stop organizations from making misleading anti-print and anti-paper claims in their customer communications. It included findings of an international survey among more than 10,000 consumers assessing their document-storing preferences and attitudes about print versus digital communications.