Jim Richardson, Heirlooms: Saving Humanity's 10,000 Year Legacy of Food

Agricultural biodiversity is as much in need of defending as the world's wildlife. Countless varieties of plants and animals were bred by the world's peoples for talents specific to every soil, climate, and human culture. Most of them have been lost---their hard-won genetic sophistication extinguished. But many have survived, thanks to professional and amateur devotion, and they are wondrous---living embodiments of humanity's deepest traditions.

Photojournalist Jim Richardson has been covering the agricultural beat for National Geographic since 1984. His spectacular photographs, and the stories he tells with them, are renowned.

Seminar hosted by Stewart Brand
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Advance Tickets Recommended - Tickets are $10
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Long Now Members get complimentary tickets
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Live Audio Stream of the Seminar for Long Now Members
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There will be a reception at The Long Now Museum & Store following the Seminar
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About the Series:
The Seminars About Long-term Thinking were started in 02003 to build a coherent, compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking, to help nudge civilization toward Long Now's goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.