Nominee's Background:
Family background:
He was born in 1936 in Topeka, Kansas. Jackson is divorced and has three children.
Professional experience:
* Founder and president of the Land Institute, Salina, Kansas (1976-present) * Staff member, Center for Humans and Nature (present) * PEW fellow (1990) * Full professor and first director of the environmental studies program at California State University, Sacramento (1971-76) * Professor of biology at Kansas Wesleyan (1960s)
Education:
* Bachelor's degree in biology, Kansas Wesleyan , Kansas, 1958 * Master's degree in botany, University of Kansas, Kansas, 1960 * Ph.D. in genetics, North Carolina State University, 1967
Partial list of board memberships:
* The E.F. Schumacher Society * Sustainable Settings * The Nature Institute * Kansas Wesleyan
Partial list of awards:
* Right Livelihood Award, 2000. * MacArthur Foundation, MacArthur Fellow, 1992 * Pew Fellows Program in Conservation and the Environment, Fellow, 1990 * Kansas Wesleyan, Distinguished Service Award, 1988 * EPA Region VII, Environmental Quality Award, 1979 * Donald Q. Innis Award, Presented to recognize a scholar who has achieved and maintained excellence in the field of rural development, Missouri Western State College
Selected list of publications:
* Becoming Native to This Place. Counterpoint Press, 1996. * Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place. Yale Univ. Press, 1996. * Altars of Unhewn Stone: Science and the Earth. North Point Press, 1987. * New Roots for Agriculture. With Wendell Berry. Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1985.
Links to Ideas: http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC14/WJackson.htm
Quotations:
I will direct the secretary of education to address promotion of sustainable agricultures and rural cultures through our schools' curricula. Chemistry and history have been taught separately in our classrooms, but now we see how they have converged on our landscape. We will make every effort to break down the alienating and damaging compartmentalization of knowledge. We will make every effort to validate questions in the classroom that go beyond the available answers. We will draw more attention to our land and water, the source of our sustenance and health. If we don't get sustainability in agriculture first, it is not going to happen. We will implement policies that work against the loss of prime farmland, and begin at once to control urban sprawl and develop balanced approaches to growth. [W]e will require labeling that tells us who produced the food, and where and how.
"From the Margin" Orion Online, 2001
Nominating Speech:
Nominated by: Progressive Government Institute
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Progressive Criteria:
The Department of Agriculture will: Support sustainable agriculture;
Work to ensure the American people a safe, varied and plentiful food supply;
Put public health and environmental safety above corporate, political or regional interests;
Support family farming and encourage healthy economic development of rural communities;
Work to protect the Commons: public lands, air and water, biodiversity, unpatented seed stock;
Promote humane farming;
Work to avoid hurting poor farmers in poor countries with unfair competition from subsidized US crops.
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