This article is cross-posted on Civil Eats, a site that explores the connections between the food system and the environment, the politics of consumer choices, and the actions we can take to change the way we think about food everyday. There are few moments more powerful and thrilling for a young person than those in which [...]
Posts Tagged ‘students’
Taking Up Toolbelts
Posted in Brooklyn, Fall 08, tagged students, the future!, young farmers on December 12, 2008 |
Knowing Our Numbers (Terra Madre 2008)
Posted in Brooklyn, Fall 08, tagged slow food, students, the future! on November 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
364 vs. 162. Victory. 1000 of 6000. Youth. As of the results of Tuesday night, the spectacle and excitement of Terra Madre is no longer [...]
Radishes and Rubbish!
Posted in Brooklyn, Fall 08, tagged students on September 16, 2008 |
My friend Carla and I have always let our ostensibly similar interests take us in more or less opposite directions. She studies socially responsible supply chains. I study responsibility for the soil, and how to reduce supply chains to a single link. In a class on How Stuff Is Made, she researched the gold mines [...]
Big Apples
Posted in Organic on the Green, tagged students on July 9, 2008 |
The Organic Trade Association (OTA) recently launched a new site, Organic on the Green: A Blog to Feed the Organic Revolution in Campus Dining. Participants in the blog are assigned a date to post an article, and OTA hopes of course that collaborative discussions will follow. The following article was written for the new blog, and [...]
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 [...]
Western Tortoise, Eastern Hare.
Posted in Berkeley, Spring 08, Real Food Challenge, tagged students on February 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Often the result of attending a convergence, or a gathering of individuals focused on a particular topic, is to leave with an immense sense of solidarity and communal power. Today, however, I left Santa Cruz with a well—rounded sense of satisfaction and comfort. Like I’d been patted on the back for the work I already [...]
For Farmers, Not Funders.
Posted in Brooklyn, Fall 07, Real Food Challenge, tagged students, the future! on December 6, 2007 |
As a scholar of the Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship, I have recently felt saturated with stories about successful non-profits and NGOs, and with bullet-pointed presentations on what made them functional, how they raised money, and how they scaled up their impact from a local to a national or global level.These “exemplary” organizations are usually [...]
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 [...]
Ground Level Gathering
Posted in Brooklyn, Fall 07, Real Food Challenge, tagged merriment, students on October 8, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Last night we held a barbecue in my apartment, in preparation for the Real Food Summit, to gather together the New York students who are working on food and sustainability. I hesitate to describe the cast of characters, or give my delighted account of their quirks and ideas, as the same people probably make up [...]
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