J.B. MacKinnon
J.B. MacKINNON has won numerous national and international awards for journalism. As the originator of the 100-mile diet concept, he appears regularly in Canada and the USA as a speaker and commentator on ecology and food. His book, The 100-Mile Diet, co-authored with Alisa Smith, was a national bestseller and inspired a TV series in which the small town of Mission, BC, learned to eat locally. He was also the co-author, with Mia Kirshner and artists Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons, of I Live Here, a groundbreaking "paper documentary" about displaced people that made top 10 lists in media as diverse as...
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eBook | 256 pages | Random House Canada | Nature - Ecology; Science - Natural History; Nature - Ecosystems & Habitats - General
978-0-307-36220-9 (0-307-36220-5)
September 24, 2013 | $15.99
From one of Canada's most exciting writers and ecological thinkers, a book that will change the way we see nature and show that in restoring the living world, we are also restoring ourselves.
The Once and Future World began in the moment J.B. MacKinnon realized the grassland he grew up on...
Hardcover | 272 pages | Random House Canada | Nature - Ecology; Science - Natural History; Nature - Ecosystems & Habitats - General
978-0-307-36218-6 (0-307-36218-3)
September 24, 2013 | $29.95
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From one of Canada's most exciting writers and ecological thinkers, a book that will change the way we see nature and show that in restoring the living world, we are also restoring ourselves.
The Once and Future World began in the moment J.B. MacKinnon realized the grassland he grew up on...
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Social Science - Agriculture & Food; Cooking - Methods - Slow Cooking; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-37117-1 (0-307-37117-4)
February 24, 2009 | $13.99
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The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment.
When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a North American meal travels 1,500 miles from farm to plate, they...
Hardcover | 320 pages | Pantheon | Social Science - Third World Development; Photography
978-0-375-42478-6 (0-375-42478-4)
October 14, 2008 | $34.00
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I Live Here is a paper documentary–an intimate journey to humanitarian crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Burma, globalization in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi.
~THE BOOK~
I Live Here is a visually stunning narrative — told through journals, stories, images, and graphic novellas — in...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Social Science - Agriculture & Food; Cooking - Methods - Slow Cooking; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-679-31483-7 (0-679-31483-0)
October 2, 2007 | $21.00
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The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment.
When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a North American meal travels 1,500 miles from farm to plate, they...
