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Combining stunning visuals with insights and a lexicon of more than 200 agricultural terms explained by today's thought leaders, Local showcases and explores one of the most popular environmental trends: rebuilding local food movements.When Douglas Gayeton took his young daughter to see the salmon run - a favorite pastime growing up in Northern California - he was devastated to find that a combination of urban sprawl, land mismanagement, and pollution had decimated the fish population.The discovery set Gayeton on a journey in search of sustainable solutions. He traveled the country, photographing and learning the new language of sustainability from today's foremost practitioners in food and farming, including Alice Waters, Wes Jackson, Carl Safina, Temple Grandin, Paul Stamets, Patrick Holden, Barton Seaver, Vandana Shiva, Dr.
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Douglas Gayeton is an award-winning American multimedia artist, filmmaker, writer, and photographer. He and his wife are the directors of the Lexicon of Sustainability project, which focuses on teaching people how to lead a more sustainable life. He is the author of LOCAL: The New Faces of Food and Farming in America, and SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town. He lives on a small goat farm near Petaluma, CA.
