J. B. MacKinnon

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James Bernard MacKinnon
Other namesJ. B. MacKinnon
Occupationsjournalist, contributing editor, author
Awards National Magazine Award (6×); Charles Taylor Prize

James Bernard MacKinnon, commonly cited as J.B. MacKinnon, is a Canadian journalist, contributing editor and book author. MacKinnon is best known for co-authoring with Alisa Smith the bestselling book The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating , encouraging readers to focus on local eating as a way to address current environmental and economic issues. [1] MacKinnon and Smith also collaborated in the creation of the Food Network Canada television series The 100 Mile Challenge , based on the book. He has won six National Magazine Awards, [2] and the 2006 Charles Taylor Prize for best work of Literary Non-Fiction. [3]

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As a contributing editor to Canadian magazines Adbusters , Explore, and Vancouver, and freelance journalist, MacKinnon's writings span many literary genres and topics, including travel, sports, and politics. [4] MacKinnon's first book, Dead Man in Paradise, combines family history and unsolved mystery in the retelling of the murder of MacKinnon's uncle, a Canadian priest, in 1965 in the Dominican Republic. It won the Charles Taylor Prize. [5] In 2008, MacKinnon co-authored I Live Here with Mia Kirshner, Michael Simons, and Paul Shoebridge, a collection of stories about victims of crisis throughout the globe. [6] In 2011, he wrote the script for the interactive web documentary Bear 71 , which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. [7] [8] MacKinnon lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. [1]

In 2021 he published The Day the World Stops Shopping: How ending consumerism gives us a better life and a greener world. [9] [10]

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  1. 1 2 The 100-Mile Diet
  2. ↑ "National Magazine Awards Past Winners Archive" Retrieved Sept 9, 2013.
  3. ↑ Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival
  4. ↑ Weir 2006
  5. ↑ Buium 2005
  6. ↑ Random House 2008
  7. ↑ Monk, Katherine. "Sundance: Interactive film, Bear 71, blurs lines between wild and wired". canada.com . Postmedia News. Archived from the original on 26 January 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
  8. ↑ Makarechi, Kia (24 January 2012). "'Bear 71': Interactive Film At Sundance Tells Dark Side Of Human Interaction With Wildlife". Huffington Post . Retrieved 25 January 2012.
  9. ↑ MacKinnon, J. B. (2021). The day the world stops shopping. London: Bodley Head. ISBN   978-1847925473.
  10. ↑ Waters, Jamie (30 May 2021). "Overconsumption and the environment: should we all stop shopping?". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 May 2021.

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