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Harvesting Justice 18: Meet Up, Eat Up, Act Up – Consumers Join the Movement for Food Workersβ Rights
βWe are trying to have workers become as trendy as local and organic has become in the industry,β Saru Jayaraman, co-director and co-founder of ROC, told us. βItβs going to take the three stakeholders – workers, good employers, and consumers – working together to actually change things.”
Harvesting Justice 10: Small Farms Fight Back – Food and Community Self-Governance
Heather Retberg stood on the steps of the Blue Hill, Maine town hall surrounded by 200 people. βWe are farmers,β she told the crowd, βwho are supported by our friends and our neighbors who know us and trust us, and want to ensure that they maintain access to their chosen food supply.β
Harvesting Justice #6: The Consumer's Got to Change the System – Farmer Ben Burkett on Racisim & Corporate Control of Agriculture
Other Worlds’ Tory Field and Beverly Bell discuss issues of sustainability and agriculture with Mississippi farmer and member of Via Campesina’s food sovereignty commission Ben Burkett.
Localizing Your Holidays on Hangin' with sustainablog
Missed our discussion about localizing your holidays on today’s edition of Hangin’ with sustainablog? Not a problem – we’ve got recordings ready to go.
Come Hang with sustainablog to Discuss Localizing Your Holidays
Want to make you holidays more “local?” Join us for this week’s edition of Hangin’ with sustainablog, where we’ll discuss tactics for localizing your meals, gifts, decorations, and more…
How Sustainable is Food from a Hydroponic Garden?
Growing food on-site in hydroponic gardens is catching on in a number of locations. But does this approach create truly “local” produce, with all of the health and environmental benefits?
Food Supply Worries of an Agricultural Scientist Part 4: Aflatoxin
Β [social_buttons] This post is going to be another struggle for balance. Β The threat from this particular mycotoxin in the food supply is a so large that it makes the [ … ]
Help Your Favorite Local Farmers Market Win $5000
It’s an experience many of us relish– taking a weekend stroll through the colors, sounds, and smells of a local farmers market and then choosing fresh items to take back [ … ]
Think Local First: In Baltimore or Anywhere, USA
It’s time to join tens of millions of Americans who are rediscovering commerce in a local ECOnomy where customers are not treated like “consumers,” but rather as friends, fellow citizens, [ … ]
Environmental Defense Fund: Bothering to Save the Planet, One Step at a Time
You swap out your light bulbs for energy-efficient ones, keep your house as chilled as a meat locker in winter, bicycle to work, eat little meat and drive a hybrid [ … ]
Could Neighborhood Gardens Lead to More Sustainable Food?
Central Pennsylavania’s Centre Daily Times has become a hotbed for discussion of food and sustainability recently. Today, Penn State human ecologist Christopher Uhl offers an idea that promotes both sustainable [ … ]