You make it happen. To find out how to get the ball rolling in your own school, go to www.realfoodchallenge.org
Join the challenge to transform your school into a living laboratory for real food solutions.
As U.S. food pantries face long lines and empty shelves while food riots rock the globe, it is clear that we are in the midst of a food crisis at home and abroad. The crisis is long in the making, yet even as it hits both headlines and wallets, it has been largely ignored by the current administration and the presidential candidates. In response, food, farm, labor, and justice organizations from across the US are joining together to call on our leaders to address the roots of the problem.
Join: Justice in Nigeria Now, Amazon Watch and the CounterCorp Film Festival for a night of film shorts related to the true cost of oil in Nigeria and the Amazon.
Cost: $10 ($5 with student id)
Films include:
The Naked Option - A Last Resort: A work in progress by Candace Schermerhorn is a film about 600 Nigerian women who peacefully protested Chevron’s human rights and environmental abuses with only the threat of publicly stripping naked – a culturally unacceptable taboo.
Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP), People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) and other civil society organizations, are initiating a call to observe October 16, 2008, World Food Day as the World Foodless Day. Various groups from Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Korea, Japan, China, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Mongolia, Hongkong, Indonesia, Philippines, Uganda and Kenya have expressed their intention to participate in this event, assert people's food sovereignty and commit to a Day of Global Action with simultaneous events, protest actions and activities.
www.bioneers.org to register for any or all sessions.
You make it happen. To find out how to get the ball rolling in your own school, go to www.realfoodchallenge.org
Join the challenge to transform your school into a living laboratory for real food solutions.
www.bioneers.org to register for any or all sessions.
You make it happen. To find out how to get the ball rolling in your own school, go to www.realfoodchallenge.org
Join the challenge to transform your school into a living laboratory for real food solutions.
www.bioneers.org to register for any or all sessions.
Food First executive director, Eric Holt-Gimenez shares the podium with Ali Sharif, founder of Permaculture America Latina (PAL) and Panfilo Tabora of Earth University in Costa Rica which is a living laboratory of sustainable practices.
Registration information: www.bioneers.org/conference
Ph: 505-986-0366
You make it happen. To find out how to get the ball rolling in your own school, go to www.realfoodchallenge.org
Join the challenge to transform your school into a living laboratory for real food solutions.
www.bioneers.org to register for any or all sessions.
You make it happen. To find out how to get the ball rolling in your own school, go to www.realfoodchallenge.org
Join the challenge to transform your school into a living laboratory for real food solutions.
www.bioneers.org to register for any or all sessions.
by Professor Daniel Sumner
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
http://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/speaker-series-dsumner
This discussion will help clarify what has happened to food commodity and food prices over the past few years by assessing suspected drivers such as oil price increases, biofuels policy, weather problems, demand increases in rapidly growing economies, and food import and export policies.
Free and open to the public.
You make it happen. To find out how to get the ball rolling in your own school, go to www.realfoodchallenge.org
Join the challenge to transform your school into a living laboratory for real food solutions.
Greenpeace India is organizing a one day international seminar, "Environmental degradation and food crisis – Lessons for India”
Background and rationale
The world is witnessing an unprecedented food crisis. A global food debate is on. Several studies have been undertaken to identify the causes of the problem. Climate change, biofuels, crop losses and even the consumption pattern of Indian middle class is under scrutiny. But there are very few discussions about the fundamental issues gripping the food producing sector.
Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University. She also holds appointments as Professor of Sociology in NYU’s College of Arts and Sciences and as Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences in the College of Agriculture at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the politics of food with an emphasis on the role food marketing as a determinant of dietary choice. She is the author of Food Politics and Safe Food and is co-editor of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Food and Nutrition.
by Professor Miguel Altieri
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
http://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/speaker-series-maltieri
World agriculture appears to be approaching a crossroads. The
globalized economy has placed a series of conflicting demands on
existing croplands. Not only is this land required to produce food
for a growing human population, but it also must meet the increased
demands for biofuels; and it must do so in an environmentally sound
way that preserves biodiversity and reduces greenhouse emissions,
Join friends, neighbors, and the progressive community that will hopefully witness the end of the nightmarish Bush Regime. La Peña will be hosting an election night watch on several large projection screens. Tuesday, Nov. 4th come and watch the returns at La Peña Cultural Center. Admission is FREE.
La Peña will be selling food and beverages to fundraise for the center for it’s 34th year of promoting peace, social justice, and cultural understanding through the arts, education, and community action. Never too late to organize for peace!
with spoken word performance by Aya de Leon
"Van Jones demonstrates conclusively that the best solutions for the survivability of our planet are also the best solutions for everyday Americans."
---Al Gore
This event is sponsored by and benefits Green for All and KPFA Radio.
$12 at supportive bookstores or www.kpfa.org
$15 at the door
Synthetic Biology, a new biotech revolution nurtured in the San Francisco Bay Area, was at the heart of the recent controversial deal between UC Berkeley and oil giant BP. Discover how this fast growing artificial life industry is set to have massive implications for global justice, peace, the environment and the Bay Area itself.
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Synthetic Biology? Whats that?
Join us for a day of learning and sharing about the ways we can build our local urban agriculture system. Urban agriculture helps reduce hunger, increases access to healthy food, and generates revenue and employment opportunities for people, particularly those facing poverty. Workshop topics include: case studies of successful urban agriculture projects that are increasing access to healthy food for low-income communities, how to start up and manage an urban agriculture project and marketing your healthy produce to the people that need it most.
Panel discussion with Miguel Altieri, Eric Holt-Gimenez and Raj Patel at 5 P.M., Friday, November 13 in the East Hall. Is there a better way to feed ourselves than using toxic chemicals and unsustainable practices? This panel discussion will focus on the nexus between alternative agriculture, respect to native ecosystems, and the need to craft a unified response to the global threat of climate change that works for all.
For a complete green festival guide, go to www.greenfestivals.org
Panel discussion with Miguel Altieri, Eric Holt-Gimenez and Raj Patel at 5 P.M., Friday, November 13 in the East Hall. Is there a better way to feed ourselves than using toxic chemicals and unsustainable practices? This panel discussion will focus on the nexus between alternative agriculture, respect to native ecosystems, and the need to craft a unified response to the global threat of climate change that works for all.
For a complete green festival guide, go to www.greenfestivals.org
It’s time to grow local! Growing food in the city can increase access to healthy food, create job and economic opportunities and build community self reliance. Securing sustained access to land for food production is the first and one of the most important steps for almost all urban and suburban agriculture projects. Join us for a day of information, discussion and training on how to secure land in your community for food production aimed at increasing access for low-income/food stamp eligible communities.
