J. B. MacKinnon

Canadian journalist, contributing editor and book author

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]

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]

Notes

^ ^a ^b The 100-Mile Diet
^ "National Magazine Awards Past Winners Archive" Retrieved Sept 9, 2013.
^ Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival
^ Weir 2006
^ Buium 2005
^ Random House 2008
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ MacKinnon, J. B. (2021). The day the world stops shopping. London: Bodley Head. ISBN 978-1847925473.
^ Waters, Jamie (30 May 2021). "Overconsumption and the environment: should we all stop shopping?". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 May 2021.

References

"Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival". Retrieved 2008-11-29.
Weir, Stephen (2006-02-27). "J. B. MacKinnon Wins the 2006 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-11-29.
CBC News; Buium, Greg (2005-11-02). "Fellow Travellers: The FCC: six West Coast writers looking to reinvent journalism". Retrieved 2008-11-29.
100-Mile Diet: Local Eating for Global Change. "The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating". Retrieved 2008-11-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Random House (2008-10-14). "I Live Here". Retrieved 2008-11-29.
MacKinnon, J. B.; Smith, Alisa (2007). The 100-Mile-Diet: A Year of Local Eating. Vintage Canada.