a reblog covering NYC’s sustainability scene
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11th, 2009
Food docs galore this month, apparently. Can’t have too many, we thinks. Check out FRESH:
FRESH will be screening in NYC on Wednesday May 27th. FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Among several main characters, FRESH features urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, the recipient of […]
Posted in Environmental Justice, Food on May 11th, 2009
Are you passionate about local food, urban gardening and social justice?
Would you like to make
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AmeriCorps* VISTA!
Apply to serve as a fulltime AmeriCorps* VISTA member and help build a more just and sustainable food system in New York City.
Just Food and several of […]
Posted in Food on Apr 7th, 2009
Piling on that last post, Brooklyn writer Max Ajl has an awfully good article on SolveClimate about Scott Stringer’s “Food in the Public Interest: How New York City’s Food Policy Holds the Key to Hunger, Health, Jobs and the Environment” report:
The report, rich with detail and prescription, outlines preliminary steps toward a pretty good food […]
From Just Food:
Food For Thought Film Festival
Naniola Productions presents the third annual Food For Thought Film Festival; a showcase of films about our most important life sustaining resources: FOOD and WATER.
The festival begins on April 11, 2009 at the Action Center to End World Hunger downtown and will conclude on […]
Love the national coverage of such a pleasant niche in the NYC sustainability scene. The New Republic’s energy and environment blog, The Vine, covers our local beekeepers. Which they describe–because of the illegality of it all–as sort of a secret society:
Saskia Cornes, an author who has written about New York City’s beekeepers, tells me that […]
From the folks at Greenmarket:
Be an Educated Eater - join urban ag pioneers for a lively discussion on farming in the city!
Did you know there are eggs and wheatgrass from Brooklyn, rooftop beehives in the Bronx, a thriving 2.5 acre community farm in Red Hook, and livestock roaming on 47 acres in Queens? These are […]
CORRECTION: Registration won’t open until March.
Registration is now open for the Brooklyn Food Conference:
Brooklyn Food Conference: Local Action for Global Change
A grassroots event for a just, sustainable, healthy and delicious food system
~ Saturday, May 2, 2009 ~ 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. ~
Free and Open to the Public
~ PS 321 & John Jay High School, […]
Posted in Food on Feb 18th, 2009
This is without question one of the cooler programs I’ve heard about:
Community Food Education
Uniting NYC Communities through Food
Community Chef Program 2009
Click here for the 2009 Application
Just Food is looking for people to join its team of Community Chefs. Through Just Food’s Community Chef training program, you will learn how to facilitate workshops about local, seasonal […]
Posted in Food on Jan 16th, 2009
See which 16 Greenmarkets you can hit up straight through the winter, after the jump.
Posted in Food on Dec 21st, 2008
Expect to hear more and more about “urban chickens” (or chickens raised right here in the city) in coming years. Get your first taste on this radio program sent around by Just Food:
Hear all about our recent Chicken Tractor workshop lead by Brooklyn chicken keeper Gregory Anderson in partnership with St. Augustine School’s chicken club […]