Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) hosted world-renowned author, researcher and ecological activist Dr. Vandana Shiva on Tuesday for their 9th Annual Dodge Lecture. I live in Baltimore, so I was able to attend and came away as impressed and inspired by Dr. Shiva as I was when we saw her at Slow Food Nation last year.
A force for the sustainable food movement, she is able to lay out plainly the issues with industrial agriculture and unfair trade systems and the problems they’ve created around the world, but she also gives us hope through the example of her program, Navdanya, which is home to a wealth of incredible research on food sovereignty, biotech and more, as well as 46 seed banks throughout India and a 20-acre organic farm where workshops on sustainable agriculture are held throughout the year. She also mentioned that she’s got a new book out called Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis.
Our friends at CLF will have a video of Dr. Shiva’s talk on the site soon, but in the meantime, check out their writeup on their new Livable Future blog.
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