Over the last several months, I have conducted a research project with my friend Sam Lipschultz, who recently graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. Our research focused upon farm to institution collaboration in the United States, and particularly upon Farm to Hospital programs. Below is a brief introduction to our final report, and you can download [...]
Posts Tagged ‘research’
Real Food, Real Health
Posted in Brooklyn, Spring 09, tagged health care, policy, research on May 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A Prescription for Power
Posted in Brooklyn, Spring 09, Institution Distribution, tagged health care, research on March 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is one in a series of essays related to an ongoing research project. The research is focused upon developing a Farm-To-Institution distribution program in New York State. A more detailed description of this work can be found under Ongoing Research, in the Research section of this site. The latest two interviews conducted for this project presented [...]
Missing: Prisoners and Patients
Posted in Brooklyn, Spring 09, Institution Distribution, tagged health care, prisons, research on February 13, 2009 |
This is the first in a series of essays related to an ongoing research project. The research is focused upon developing a Farm-To-Institution distribution program in New York State. A more detailed description of this work can be found under Ongoing Research, in the Research section of this site. During a recent conversation with Christina [...]
Vitalizing the Vacant
Posted in Berkeley, Spring 08, tagged city planning, research, the future!, urban agriculture on May 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Over the last two months, I have conducted a research project focused upon urban farms and city planning, for the course City Planning 252 (“Land Use Controls”), taught by Professor Fred Etzel at UC Berkeley. Below is a brief introduction to this work in progress, and you can download a full PDF file of the [...]
No Risk of Recession
Posted in Berkeley, Spring 08, tagged land use, policy, research, students, the future! on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last weekend, a few close friends of mine who care about where their food comes from, and appreciate those who produce the food they enjoy, voiced their curiosity as to whether the whole “local food thing” was just another diet fad. These friends, Bekah and Raphi, are a couple in their twenties living in Berkeley, working [...]
The Wrong Research
Posted in Berkeley, Spring 08, tagged biodiversity, Climate, research on February 8, 2008 |
At this point it’s widely acknowledged that biofuels made with corn and soybeans are not the solution to our addiction to oil. Farmers clear huge tracts of land to grow monocrops destined for biofuel production where once natural ecosystems thrived, or where they had grown food for their families. Multinational biotech corporations like Monsanto and [...]
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