Micronesia's Plea To Stop Climate Change

Powerful Speech by President of Nauru—Calling for Bold Global Action on Climate Change to Save the Pacific Islands

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=479768694910

http://motherjones.com/environment/2010/12/climate-change-nauru-cancun

Baruch - Jamaica Bay

South of the Border, Oliver Stone

Katie's Krops, SC

Eagle Street Farm on The Selby

Awesome.

CLICK HERE Annie Novak at Eagle Street Farm

Montana Fare

This is a short film made by Terra, a 'collaborative filmsource' associated with the MFA program in Science and Natural Filmmaking at Montana State University. I stumbled across this piece called 'Montana Fare' and thought it was stunning. Definitely check it out. brief description below.

MONTANA FARE examines contemporary food culture in rural Montana through the eyes of two women (farmer/rancher Jenny Sabo (Harrison, MT) and Native American tribal elder Minerva Allen (Lodge Pole, MT on the Ft. Belknap Res)) who try to feed their families while living 50 miles from the nearest grocery store.

Link to film: http://vodpod.com/watch/2309891-terra-511-montana-fare

Read This

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/grass-fed-a-few-beefs/

Brooklyn College Professor Annie Hauck-Lawson on Composting Epi 1.mpg

Random Stuff

I sent an email, but I'm just posting random items of interest, links, etc.

Refillable cleaning products.  http://commongoodhome.com/site/home_soap_+_detergent_with_bulk_refills.html

Biocycle Magazine. http://www.jgpress.com/

Food Democracy Now http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/ Read the blog.

Ugh. http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/11/22/101122taco_talk_kolbert

Anna Lappe http://www.smallplanet.org/

Change! sustainable food http://food.change.org/

NYC Community Garden Coalition http://www.nyccgc.org/ and their Yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NYC-GardensCoalition/
November 17, 2010: Media, Advocacy, and Dialogue
Panel: Ian Cheney, Erin Fairbanks, Tom Grace, Katy Keiffer, Gabrielle Langholtz.

Moderator: Andrew F. Smith

Increasing media attention to urban agriculture has mirrored the public's
growing interest in the topic. At the same time, food activists have used the
media in creative ways to advance support for urban agriculture. Moderated by
food writer Andy Smith, this panel focuses on the relationship between media,
advocacy, and the urban agriculture movement. The panel includes an artist and
filmmaker, the producer of an internet broadcast network focusing on urban
farming, an organizer of a farm boot camp for urban chefs, an expert on the
internet and agriculture, and the publisher of a food magazine.

Location: The New School, Kellen Gallery, 13th Street and Fifth Avenue, NYC
Time: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

For more information: www.newschool.edu/sjdc

Food Bank NYC.  They're hiring. http://www.foodbanknyc.org/

http://www.ethicurean.com/ article about Michele Simon

I could go on, but that's probably more than enough for one day.

Very Sad Week for the Garden

Hey everybody,

I know everyone is tied up with their internships and school load so just reading this is a courtesy. I appreciate your time, and I hope all is going well!

This Monday, The Hattie Carthan Community Garden (where I'm interning) was set ablaze. We're not sure who or what caused the fire yet, but it damaged almost $15,000 worth of community funding in equipment, reserves, and supplies for the Garden.

If you can help spread the word to our fellow Brooklynite Food Justice peeps (your internship sites or friends who are active in our movement) it would really help the Garden recover. Just keep us in the back of your minds and in your conversations and I know that somehow, someone will find the time to lend a hand.

It's in the midst of these kinds of catastrophes that we need to mend each others wounds in order to be stronger as a community.

We have a series of fundraisers underway, and I've created a blog that everybody can reference to see how to help out.
http//hattiecarthan@wordpress.com

Thanks guys!
Frances

Gettin' Down with the Farmy Folks

Hey ya'll!

There's an event on Saturday, November 13th at the Hattie Carthan Community Garden that would be really cool if you could attend. It's the "Farmy Folks Soiree" and it will review the harvest and all of the community enrichment workshops hosted at the Garden. They've done a women's conference that called for strong women all over New York to shed knowledge on survival through a spectrum of realities that women face alone normally. They've also hosted food education workshops for adults and children, having them learn about the life cylce of a plant and how to grow their own produce over time.

Really cool stuff, and the market has only been open for a year. Anywho, they'll be delving into folk culture and the spirit of harvest at this event with folk music and 'farmy' films so I'm definitely looking forward to it. Spread the word to those who might be interested.

Check out the splash for the event:
www.wix.com/frankness/forthefarmyfolks

Food Inc and King Corn

Hello all!!
So I just saw Food Inc last night and I saw King Corn on Wednesday. All I can say is GROSS and WHAT THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO EAT NOW!!!?!??!?! I was equally amazed by both films, if anything I went through the same stages I experienced while reading McKibben and Lappe. I now view the food industry in a whole new way. What are we supposed to do??? Its quite disheartening to feel like the business of food is no longer centered on sustaining and nourishing people- its about profit and mass production.

I mean who knew there is ethanol in lysol?? now all i can picture is spraying corn on everything while im "disinfecting" stuff. All I could think while watching King Corn was : we are the children of the gentically modified corn (like that movie,children of the corn-get it?) growing corn that isnt meant to be eaten and then feeding it to cows. Its ridiculous.

Have any of you seen these films yet?

Food Policy Forum

I was trying to tape as much I could from my iPhone. Needless to say, its in true bootleg quality. So I would really love to see that footage once you're done editing it. Some of the points that were made about food desserts really intregued me, and the notion of "preservationists". It's extremely ironic that people are given a place to live, with no access to REAL food to eat. And those who decide what goes on whose land, don't give a lick about that dynamic because they have their food prepared for them- and they want to "preserve" the land that they use aesthetically.

That footage would be the inciting argument to get people urged to push for changes in how corporations and businesses compete for the land.

With all that was said in the forum, the thing that hit home to me in every point that their are either not enough people to make a riot of things to light the fire under policy makers' asses, or those voices eventually begin to diminish- in the talk about politics and the bottom line.

But the truth is, the people the government decided to keep healthy and those they do, is extremely political. And the disheartening fact of the matter is that this inequality is the basis of Capitalism. It is the model that the world follows like relegion.
And in terms of our health, it is merely political. Who deserves to die of obsesity?

Any takers?

Food Policy Forum Last Night

As you know, last night was the Food Policy Forum that Professor Romer had informed us about. It was very exciting, informative and well-attended! I saw a few people from class in attendance, and for those who were unable to make it, I actually taped the nearly-two hour event :)

I should be putting it together and posting it on the Brooklyn Food Coalition website soon, and I am looking to see if I can get it aired on BCAT. I'll keep you posted!

Welcome!

Hi everyone!

I asked Professor Romer for your email addresses so that I could invite you all to join a blog where we can have discussions outside of class to supplement and enrich the ones we have in our short time together in class.

Feel free to post anything and everything related to class, including information about events, what is going on with your internship, thoughts about readings/films/policies/etc. Post topics you want to start discussions about!

Looking forward to some thought- (and, hopefully, action-) provoking conversation!