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Extreme factors set the stage for Global Food Systems Summit 2021 – Your pantry is in play

by Steven McFadden You may imagine that your involvement with the food system begins and ends with your refrigerator, your pantry, your local supermarket, and your backyard garden, if you are lucky enough to have one. But that fantasy would be tragically misleading. The inescapable facts: at this passionate, volatile, hotly contested moment of history, […]

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INVITATION: Engage a heroic journey along a wisdom trail

Now that I’ve finished telling the tale a second time, via the supplemental medium of memes, I’m happy to invite you (one and all) to engage the Odyssey of the 8th Fire. Through following the journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific you will meet and learn from traditional wisdom keepers of North America. What […]

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Ginawaydaganuc: A concept to guide us through troubled times

According to the UN, and common observation, "We are at an unprecedented moment in the history of humankind and in the history of our planet." The Algonquin concept of ginawaydaganuc, as expressed through deep agroecology, offers an intelligent and effective response.

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Review of my Soul*Sparks book, Classical Considerations

Reviewed by Steve Leshin for Readers’ Favorite Classical Considerations by Steven McFadden brings focus to the ancient Greek philosophers and culture that have influenced our modern society in the arts, mathematics, politics, and philosophy. This is accomplished by introducing the reader to the lectures of Harvard professor John H. Finley, Jr., a popular classicist who taught a […]

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Telling the Tale: Lincoln Journal Star reports on Odyssey of the 8th Fire

I’m pleased to report that my nonfiction saga Odyssey of the 8th Fire is getting some publicity this week, in both formats: online journal and the work in progress slide-show of memes.  Both of those formats for engaging the tale are currently live and freely available for readers around the world. Columnist Cindy Lange-Kubick at […]

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The Call of the Land: A video conversation about our food, farms, and future

My video conversation with Brooke Medicine Eagle about The Call of the Land and the accompanying slide show, is freely available now on Youtube. To learn more about deep agroecology and the possibilities for our food and farms, follow this link.

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Part 4 – Odyssey of the 8th Fire Memes now live on Youtube

Part 4 of the Odyssey of the 8th Fire Memes – Days 120-160 slide show is now live and freely available on my Youtube channel. The memes at this link tell a shorthand version of the longer true, epic saga available at 8thFire.net. In invite you to undertake this adventure, to check out the tale, […]

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The Call of the Land – Free Summit

I invite you to join me and host Brooke Medicine Eagle by engaging in a free online summit, already underway as of November, 2020. Each day for 25 days or so well into December, Brooke will introduce and then converse with a different teacher. The videos of each session will then remain accessible online for […]

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The third part of the journey: slide show of memes for Odyssey of the 8th Fire

STREAM THE MEMES As the days unfold through 2020 and on into 2021, I’m creating memes commemorating the 25th anniversary of the cross-continent walk at the heart of a true, epic saga of North America: Odyssey of the 8th Fire.       When I complete a group of 40 slides, I assemble them into a […]

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Deep Agroecology: Farms, Food, and Our Future wins top National Indie Excellence Book Award

I’m pleased to share some good news via this press release from my publisher, Liz Wolf of Light and Sound Press: Lincoln, Nebraska, October, 2020—Independent journalist Steven McFadden was named a winner of the 2020 National Indie Excellence Awards (NIEA) for Deep Agroecology: Farms, Food, and Our Future. Deep Agroecology won the top honor in […]

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