We’ve compiled a selection of videos about recent food news including organic living, starting a winter garden, and the cost of cheap food. Have another favorite you’d like to include? Leave a comment below!
First Lady Michelle Obama on making healthy food accessible and affordable. Philadelphia, PA 2/19/2010
Professor Kevin Walker, PhD, at Michigan State University, explores connections between our food, our health, and the rest of the world. (related site: http://foodplussociety.org/)
Novella Carpenter started small, with some plants in an empty lot next to her house in Oakland. A couple of years later, she was tending to a full-blown farm, with goats, turkeys, ducks, pigs, and a robust garden.
Dr. Bill Chameides, dean of Duke University’s environmental school and lead blogger of www.thegreengrok.com, gives tips on how to fight global warming by retooling your trips to the grocery store.
Help fight the dark side of the farm.
The benefits of eating locally.
There are far too many ways to be green for anyone to tell you how to do it. The only way is to understand the problems that we face so you can make intelligent decisions for yourself, be informative to your friends, and help promote and create the solutions that will truly allow this world to become sustainable.
Why is getting involved important?
Food is not only a trillion dollar industry in the United States with its own marketing, advertising, campaigns, lobbyists and political stances from the far left to the far right; food is also what we eat, what nourishes us, what sustains us. We literally could not live without it. At the same time, food can also be responsible for leaving us sick, diseased or even dead. It is vital that we as consumers and/or producers understand exactly how we get our food and where it is from. It is only through educating ourselves that we will be able to make food choices that will keep us healthy and ensure a food supply that will continue to feed generations to come. It is only through making informed decisions that we can influence the food industry to adopt sustainable, food safe practices. Here on this page, we hope to provide you with a starting point on what we can do to secure a sustainable future.
Random Food Sustainability Blog Postings
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Very strange documentary for our times. It’s amazing to see what producers do to bring us our food, but this show is totally producer friendly and does not address a host of other issues. See Michael Pollan.
Hi Lori – Producer – Phil Marshall here. Having Monsanto involved in this shouldn’t frighten you at all. First – Both Phil Lempert and myself had only two contacts with Monsanto. First to make the deal and second to get paid. They had no input what so ever on content or editorial issues of the program. Second – The content of the program itself had very little to do with Monsanto’s products or interests. Although some of the feed for some of the livestock may have come from Monsanto seeds information about this given the content of our program would only make the show more confusing. If we find financing, we plan to continue with other programs and specifically to actually do a show on GMO’s and get a little closer to the truth on these issues. Monsanto would not be allowed to fund that program or any program where their products are discussed. In fact by using sound journalistic practices and presenting a fare and complete coverage of the food industry and not “Attacking and provoking” we have gained a level of trust that should allow us to get access and deeper into these companies to see and explore some of these more controversial issues.
I believe this site lost major clout when
people saw Monsanto as a major sponsor.
The site is giving Monsanto the appearance
of a company representative of your ideals.
I HOPE NOT. I am sorry if this comment is not
in the proper forum but it was on my mind
after a roundtable discussion with a few
groups of friends. If you made it this far,
thanks for your time.
Hi- William – Producer – Phil Marshall here. Having Monsanto involved in this shouldn’t be an issue. First – Both Phil Lempert and myself had only two contacts with Monsanto. First to make the deal and second to get paid. They had no input what so ever on content or editorial issues of the program. Second – The content of the program itself had very little to do with Monsanto’s products or interests. Although some of the feed for some of the livestock may have come from Monsanto seeds information about this given the content of our program would only make the show more confusing. If we find financing, we plan to continue with other programs and specifically to actually do a show on GMO’s and get a little closer to the truth on these issues. Monsanto would not be allowed to fund that program or any program where their products are discussed. In fact by using sound journalistic practices and presenting a fare and complete coverage of the food industry and not “Attacking and provoking” we have gained a level of trust that should allow us to get access and deeper into these companies to see and explore some of these more controversial issues.
“Be informed about your purchasing choices. It is difficult, but it is the number one step in sustainability.” – Phil Lempert, FoodSense
Links To Learn More
Food Routes – provides tools and information to help rebuild local, community-based food systems.
Eat Well Guide – search tool to locate local, sustainable, and organic farms, restaurants and markets in your area.
Fish Choice – search tool to find local retailers of sustainable seafood.
Civil Eats – promotes critical thought about sustainable agriculture and food systems as part of building economically and socially just communities.
The Meatrix – series of anti-industry cartoon movies – based on The Matrix – that specifically delve into the dangers of factory farms.
Local Harvest – Learn more about and find Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in your area.
Ecocentric – A blog about food, water, and energy.
Water Footprint – A look at the amount of water used to produce many common food items. One can also calculate their own water footprint.
Farmer Goes to Market – Works to bring together farmers and retailers to help eliminate misinformation along the distribution chain. FoodSense participants Anne Burkholder and Liz Doornink attended the 2009 concept show.
Green Grok – Dr. Bill Chameides, dean of the Duke Environmental Program at the Nicholas School, keeps this blog about the causes of environmental change and identifies pathways towards a more sustainable future.
Slow Food – Seeks to create dramatic and lasting change in the food system by working both on connecting consumers to the roots of their food and changing food policy.
Eat Local Challenge – A group weblog focusing on the importance of locally and sustainably grown food
Sustainable Agriculture Standard – Group working towards developing a standard by which all agricultural crops can be measured to determine whether it has been produced and handled in a sustainable manner.
Sustainability Calculators – Links to many different calculators, from determining the environmental cost of your daily commute to your electricity use to how many calories you yourself burn each day.
Ecoliteracy – Supports and advances education for sustainable living, most specifically within the school system.
Simple Steps – A site put together by the Natural Resources Defense Foundation to provide consumers with a wide array of news, information and tips on living better and more sustainably.
World Changing – Covers the world’s most innovative solutions to the planet’s problems, and inspires readers around the world with stories of new tools, models and ideas for building a bright green future.
Grist – Dishing out environmental news and commentary with a wry twist.
Breathing Earth – Real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates.
Very strange documentary for our times. It’s amazing to see what producers do to bring us our food, but this show is totally producer friendly and does not address a host of other issues. See Michael Pollan.
Monsanto is a producer of this show. This frightens me a little despite appreciating that you are educating the public about our food.
Hi Lori – Producer – Phil Marshall here. Having Monsanto involved in this shouldn’t frighten you at all. First – Both Phil Lempert and myself had only two contacts with Monsanto. First to make the deal and second to get paid. They had no input what so ever on content or editorial issues of the program. Second – The content of the program itself had very little to do with Monsanto’s products or interests. Although some of the feed for some of the livestock may have come from Monsanto seeds information about this given the content of our program would only make the show more confusing. If we find financing, we plan to continue with other programs and specifically to actually do a show on GMO’s and get a little closer to the truth on these issues. Monsanto would not be allowed to fund that program or any program where their products are discussed. In fact by using sound journalistic practices and presenting a fare and complete coverage of the food industry and not “Attacking and provoking” we have gained a level of trust that should allow us to get access and deeper into these companies to see and explore some of these more controversial issues.
I believe this site lost major clout when
people saw Monsanto as a major sponsor.
The site is giving Monsanto the appearance
of a company representative of your ideals.
I HOPE NOT. I am sorry if this comment is not
in the proper forum but it was on my mind
after a roundtable discussion with a few
groups of friends. If you made it this far,
thanks for your time.
Hi- William – Producer – Phil Marshall here. Having Monsanto involved in this shouldn’t be an issue. First – Both Phil Lempert and myself had only two contacts with Monsanto. First to make the deal and second to get paid. They had no input what so ever on content or editorial issues of the program. Second – The content of the program itself had very little to do with Monsanto’s products or interests. Although some of the feed for some of the livestock may have come from Monsanto seeds information about this given the content of our program would only make the show more confusing. If we find financing, we plan to continue with other programs and specifically to actually do a show on GMO’s and get a little closer to the truth on these issues. Monsanto would not be allowed to fund that program or any program where their products are discussed. In fact by using sound journalistic practices and presenting a fare and complete coverage of the food industry and not “Attacking and provoking” we have gained a level of trust that should allow us to get access and deeper into these companies to see and explore some of these more controversial issues.