The global movement for food justice and food sovereignty seeks to bust the corporate takeover of our food system, which has been accomplished with the complicity of our governments. Here are some of the ways it’s working towards this goal.
Tag: activism
Harvesting Justice #3: Food and Land at the Service of People – An Interview with Peter Rosset
Authors Tory Field and Beverly Bell discuss control of food and agricultural systems with agricultural economist Peter Rosset.
Harvesting Justice: Transforming the Global Food Supply Chain – Food Sovereignty
From community gardens to just global policy, a national and global movement is growing to reclaim food, land, and agricultural systems from agribusiness and put them back in the hands of citizens.
Help Protect Blackwater River State Park from Oil and Gas Drilling
Northwest Florida’s Blackwater River State Park is a special place for area residents, and an ecological treasure. Now, area activists are fighting oil drilling on this public land.
Detoxing Fashion: Greenpeace’s Investigation Pressures Global Clothing Retailers to Clean Up their Supply Chains
I’ve read numerous predictions about the future of the fashion industry for this year, but one seemed to stand out to me more than the others – thirteen global clothing retailers will begin ‘detoxing’ their garment supply chains and promise to be toxic-free by 2020.
From Trash to Table: Austrian Activists Launch Freegan Cooking Show
Dumpster diving has become a kind of hip response to this waste of perfectly good food, and now a group of Austrian activists have taken “freeganism” to the next logical step: they’ve created a cooking show for food “rescued” from grocery and restaurant dumpsters.
Door-to-Door Collection Reduces Waste in Hernani, Spain
After rejecting new incinerators, residents of Spain’s Gipuzkoa Province undertook an experiment in waste collection and disposal: door-to-door pick up of separated wastes.
Another Front Yard Garden Raises Hackles at City Hall
Karl Tricamo of Ferguson, Missouri, is challenging the city’s claim that his front-yard organic garden violates city codes.
Get Schooled on Sustainability, Add an Act of Green
Join the Earth Day Network and Wiser Earth in creating One Billion Acts of Green leading up to the Rio+20 summit.
On Coal River: The Costs of "Cheap" Electricity (Movie)
The SnagFilms documentary On Coal River follows the lives of men, women, and children in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia who battle a large coal company.
Growing Fruit Trees as Community Activism: the Boston Tree Party
Planting apple trees as a political statement? That’s the idea behind the Boston Tree Party, which is about to kick off another season of planting and growing fruit trees as an act of community empowerment.
sustainablog Stands with the SOPA/PIPA Blackout
No, we haven’t gone dark today like some of the bigger players online. But we do stand with Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, and other sites, large and small, that have decided to shut down for the day (in part, or in full) to protest SOPA/PIPA legislation currently pending in the US House of Representatives and Senate.
Guerrilla Grafters Make Community Ornamental Trees Bear Fruit
In a subversive form of food production, the Guerrilla Grafters have been craftily grafting fruit bearing branches onto otherwise unproductive ornamental fruit trees in the city.