A month ago, I wrote an essay entitled Recognizing Accents. I wrote on the importance of knowing and acknowledging all the different voices that contribute to the movement for nutritious food, land stewardship, and local community.I have had to acknowledge recently, while I listen to these voices, that I tend to work hardest on my [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Egological: Balancing Dependence
Posted in Brooklyn, Fall 07, tagged biodiversity, community, food justice, permaculture on November 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Real Food New York: First Statewide Meeting!
Posted in Real Food Challenge on November 26, 2007 |
This Sunday, Real Food New York will be holding our First Statewide Meeting! As students in New York who attended the Real Food Summit, we would like to invite all students and campus stakeholders in the area to join us! We’ll be discussing our future plans and projects as an organization, hearing from a few [...]
Arendt & Berry on Joralemon Street
Posted in Brooklyn, Fall 07, tagged beauty, community, cyclical on November 22, 2007 | 4 Comments »
My sister was concerned that an essay based on political theory and poetry might turn out a little heavy for Thanksgiving. The sources of my thoughts today are theoretically Hannah Arendt and Wendell Berry. Arendt was a German Jewish political theorist, and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Berry is a [...]
The Farm Bill: Untangle the Weave? Or Knit Anew.
Posted in Brooklyn, Fall 07, tagged policy, the future! on November 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
On Monday, November 12th, the Wagner School of NYU hosted a panel entitled “The Farm Bill 2007: Understanding the Political, Agricultural, and Nutritional Impact” with guests Marion Nestle, Dan Barber, and Christina Grace.Michael Pollan must have come up eleven times in the two-hour event. With all due respect for the author to whom I might [...]
The Summit: A Mosaic, A Potluck, Something Beautiful
Posted in Brooklyn, Fall 07, Real Food Challenge, tagged merriment, students on November 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Students across the country have become aware of the powerful influence of food systems on our lives, and we have become active leaders in sustainable initiatives at our institutions, coordinating with local, organic, often small-scale family farms, so that we might feed ourselves and our neighbors with nutritious, fairly-traded, worker-friendly, community-supportive products. What we demand [...]
Real Food: New York!
Posted in Real Food Challenge on November 7, 2007 |
Hey New York, To those of you who attended the Real Food Summit, you were wonderful. Thank you for an incredible weekend. There will be more written about the Summit in the near future, but for now, we have logistical information to share. 1) We have a listserve. On it (so far) are the people [...]
Yale Daily News: Real Food Summit
Posted in Published (Student Articles) on November 6, 2007 |
Schools Network at “Potluck” Real Food Summit Publication: Yale Daily News Date: November 5, 2007 Author: Zachary Abrahamson
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