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Richard "Dick" Manning is an American environmental author and journalist who writes about music, neuroscience, and agriculture.
SIDELIGHTS: Journalist and author Richard Manning readily admits he is on a mission to awaken Americans to their responsibilities to the environment. Writing primarily about the American West and Northwest, Manning has exposed logging companies' abuse of clear-cutting practices, examined the lessons of the loss of the formerly vast North ...
Taking a critical look at this little-understood biome, award-winning journalist Richard Manning urges the reclamation of this land, showing how the grass is not only our last connection to the natural world, but also a vital link to our own prehistoric roots, our history, and our culture.
Feb 1, 2005 · In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Against the Grain, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment.
RICHARD MANNING is an award-winning author and journalist. He has written seven books, including Rewilding the West: Restoration of a Prairie Landscape, Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization, Food's Frontier: The Next Green Revolution, and Grassland: The Biology, Politics, and Promise of the American Prairie.
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Apr 1, 1994 · These thoughts launch us into Richard Manning's powerful and compelling account of his building an environmentally conscious house on a thirty-eight acre piece of land in the wilds of western Montana.
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Jan 1, 2004 · Richard Manning examines the history of grain agriculture from primitive societies up to present day. He posits that primitive hunter gathers moved to a grain agriculture in order to secure food sources during times of conflict, but in doing so they sacrificed their autonomy and varied diet.
Richard Manning is the author of Grassland, A Good House, and Last Stand, a finalist for the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award. He worked as a reporter for fifteen years, including four years at the Missoulian.
Richard Manning is a freelance magazine writer, with essays and articles published in Harper’s, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Wired, Men’s Journal, OnEarth, The Los Angeles Times…
Living in the Vanguard of Climate Change. How mega-fires—and the blinkered perspectives demanding flawed management of them—are raising the stakes for everyone. Host Violet Lucca,Guest Richard Manning. [Report] Environmentalist momentum in the West. by Richard Manning.
