Kansas

The Land Institute
When people, land and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. By consulting nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while promotiong a community life at once prosperous and enduring.
Initiated in 2001, the Prairie Writers Circle brings together writers in Kansas and nationally who produce newspaper op-ed commentary to encourage wider public awareness of ecological and sustainability issues important to the Land Institute’s mission. The Kansas division of the circle comprises leaders of the state’s environmental organizations along with others interested in focusing attention on the ecological problems of Kansas. Essays from this group go to Kansas newspapers, both daily and weekly. Members of the national division focus on similar issues but on a broader scale. The national group’s work goes to large newspapers across the nation as well as selected smaller markets.