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.The 100-Mile Diet MacKinnon and Smith also collaborated in the creation of the

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television series '' The 100 Mile Challenge'', based on the book. He has won six

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, and the 2006

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for best work of Literary Non-Fiction. As a contributing editor to Canadian magazines ''

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'', ''Explore'', and ''Vancouver'', and freelance journalist, MacKinnon's writings span many literary genres and topics, including travel, sports, and politics. 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

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. It won the

. In 2008, MacKinnon co-authored ''I Live Here'' with

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, Michael Simons, and Paul Shoebridge, a collection of stories about victims of crisis throughout the globe.Random House 2008 In 2011, he wrote the script for the interactive

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'', which premiered at the

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. MacKinnon lives in

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

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