false 201069 1 <p> <b>Fermenting Revolution</b> delivers an empowering message about how individuals can change the world through the simple act of having a beer. Chris O'Brien presents the case for beer as both the cause of and solution to all of the world's problems. Beer has contributed to the best qualities of civilization, but it is also helping to destroy them.</p> <p>The global beer industry relies heavily on fossil-fuels and chemical agriculture, rapidly destroying nature and contributing to climate change.</p> <p>Corporate beer is centralized and hierarchical, which is good for a few elites, but displaces local brewing traditions and exacerbates the growing wealth gap.</p> <p>But the craft brewing renaissance relies on cooperation, emphasizes local production, protects and celebrates nature, and nurtures the growth of strong and equitable communities.</p> <p> <b>Fermenting Revolution</b> traces the path of brewing from a women-led, home-based craft to corporate industry, and describes how modern craft breweries and home-brewers are forging stronger communities. O'Brien explains how corporate mega-breweries are also taking steps to pioneer industrial ecology, and profiles the most inspiring and radical breweries, brewers, and beer drinkers that are making the world a better place to live.</p> <p>In the last two decades, Americans have returned to to beer as a way of life rather than as a commodity. Casting off its industrial chains, beer is again communal, convivial, democratic, healthful, and natural. The contemporary American brewing scene champions ecologically sustainable production and is helping to create thriving community places. After reading <b>Fermenting Revolution</b>, mere beer drinkers will become "beer activists," ready to fight corporate rule by simply meeting their neighbors for a pint at the local brewpub-saving the world one beer at a time.</p> 194544 1 11 2006 Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World total:31|5:5|4:11|3:8|2:7| 31 107 68 14 2 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 12:09:47 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 06:21:37 -0700 2009 Christopher Mark O'Brien...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 25 16:21:14 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 25 16:21:23 -0700 2007
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