Sustainability 10/03/2009
Posted by rosshunter on October 2, 2009
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Community Markets Association of Williamson County
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We are in a silent crisis in America because our food supply chain is being poisoned, and will ultimately be destroyed. What’s causing this is the action of corporate practices that exist only to strip every last dollar out of farming until the land is dead. Then the buyers of food will eat whatever they are fed to survive.
This crisis needs to become louder. It needs to turn into the scream it really is. We are being killed by bad food, and the answer for each one of us lies within a few miles of where we live.
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I think the answer is we make our markets where we can. In the end I don’t think all of America drives out to the farmer’s market, I think the food will come to us, one way or another.
I can’t make it to the market tomorrow so I’ve asked someone else to pick up some things for me. Meanwhile I have neighbors here in Georgetown who drive to a market in Austin to buy farm food.
Obviously I need to organize my neighborhood so only one person needs to drive to Florence to buy food for all.
And you farmers need to have subscribers – people similar to investors really – who will guarantee a market for your crop, and who will stay with you in good season and bad, in order to keep you in business and to guarantee that they can put wholesome food on their tables.
It’s a matter of re-arranging the economics of how we grow and buy food more than anything else, in my opinion.
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A Portland sustainability center could sprout in 2010 | Oregon Environmental News – – OregonLive.com
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The $90 million Oregon Sustainability Center — for several years a gauzy notion but this year funded by the Oregon Legislature — will be a showcase of the state’s green building innovation that draws visitors, researchers and designer-developers from across the world. It will rely solely on its own solar panels for energy and use no more water than falls on the site, among other major environmental feats.
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The driving goal: to become a magnet for any business or government looking to meet its sustainability challenges while growing green jobs in Oregon.
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The sustainability center is intended to meet the Living Building Challenge, a new green building certification program that lays out the most all-encompassing green standards in the industry.
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Ezra Klein – The Persistence of Obesity
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interesting post, and discussion. I do think the food chain is poisoned nowadays, and with genetic modification now loose and untracked in the fields there are a lot of untested imponderables going into our mouths no matter how rich we are.
But as to your main point, that the poor suffer extreme stress, and your secondary point, that the rich don’t really understand this because of their own relative insulation from stress – this is clearly true, and verified by all of our experiences if we review them in this light.
As for answers…
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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
