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A summit for civic leaders, family farmers, community gardeners, concerned citizens, activists, advocates, parents, food experts, policy makers, environmentalists, nutritionists, educators, urban planners, urban designers, community, business leaders, family farmers, educators, advocates, elected officials, city government leaders. The goal of this Summit is to increase awareness engagement and action around our food system’s role in climate problems and solutions. For more details, reading materials and for on-line registration go to www.nyu.edu/foodandclimatesummit

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The No Impact Project week’s in full swing now, and those of us who’ve signed on are taking a closer look at our carbon “foodprint” today. So I asked Colin to tell us a bit more about his year-long adventure in ecological eating:

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Think you’re sustainable in your plastic use? You use cloth shopping bags and recycle all the plastic you can, so you’regood right?

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With 25 teams of chefs and farmers from the Ottawa region, Canadian Organic Growers’ 5th annual Feast of Fields hosted this tremendous gastronomical delight along the Rideau River in Vincent Massey Park. In two quick hours of meeting farmer and chef teams from the region and sampling their creations, guests tasted some of the best the Ottawa Valley has to offer.

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Want to get a look inside their year of No Impact? Find a screening of the No Impact movie near you(or host one!)! New Yorkers – join Kerry Trueman and me at the Angelika theater on September 15th at 7:00, where we’ll field your questions about sustainable food and how it fits into a low-impact lifestyle.

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Local food is not only a tasty alternative to its over-processed, over-traveled industrially-produced counterparts, but it’s also patriotic to support local farmers. As this recent Washington Post article about the campaign points out, the bulk of garlic sold in the US is now produced in China. Buying locally grown garlic would encourage farmers here to grow more of it, eventually allowing us to wean ourselves off of the foreign stuff. Perhaps more importantly, buying local supports our local economies and helps to keep American farmers, who’ve dropped by more than half since the 1930s, in business.

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Food, Inc. and FRESH both feature Joel Salatin, the Virginia farmer profiled in Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma, and Pollan himself appears in both films as well. But despite the apparent overlap, the two films are very different.

Each provides a much-needed public service, but where Food, Inc. airs a laundry list of factory farming’s dirty secrets, Fresh makes a beeline past the manure lagoons, veal crates, contaminated food and monoculture madness to land us in truly greener pastures, whether it’s in rural Virginia with Salatin or in urban Milwaukee at McArthur genius Will Allen’s farm, Growing Power.

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Hope to see those of you in the NYC area at Saturday’s Brooklyn Food Conference!

The conference aims to create a solid foundation for the food movement in Brooklyn in order to advocate for Food Democracy locally and globally. In the words of its mission statement, the conference “will bring together a uniquely broad and diverse [...]

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Aside from Earth Day, today marks the Green Fork’s one-year anniversary. That we launched this blog one year ago today (with 20 Ways to Green Your Fork) is no coincidence — the team at Eat Well, along with a growing number of consumers, are  concerned about how our food choices impact the environment.  Social justice [...]

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Hailing All Returning Spring Breakers!
Just a brief post to remind you all that the Eat Well Everywhere Spring Break Challenge will be ending April 10th ! So get your submissions in ASAP so we can begin the judging process and send out those prizes! To jog your vacation fogged memories: the challenge goes a little [...]

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