Michele Simon Rocks!
Michele Simon is a public health lawyer who has been working as a nutrition advocate since 1996, specializing in policy analysis and legal strategies. She has published numerous articles about such issues as the National School Lunch Program, organic standards, the USDA's dietary guidelines, veggie libel laws, genetically engineered foods, and banning obesity lawsuits. CLICK HERE for more! She rocks - you go girl!
PDF "Making Food Service Sustainable: Portland State University’s Experience"
Food Service
In summer of 2005, Portland State University contracted Sodexho as their new food services provider. In keeping with PSU's efforts to expand sustainable processes to all areas of campus operations, Sodexho's food services contract contains detailed sustainability requirements that encompass local and organic foods sourcing, waste minimization options, compliance with Food Alliance and Monterey Bay Seafood Watch standards, recycling and composting procedures and practices, compostable packaging materials, non-toxic cleaning products, and much more.
CLICK HERE for more
Portland, Oregon Faces Farmbill Head On!
Please join us at a free public event presented by Salmon-Safe, Ecotrust Food & Farms, Slow Food Portland, and Edible Portland.
Every five to seven years, Congress passes an obscure piece of legislation that is known as the Farm Bill. As the economic engine driving the modern food system, the Farm Bill is largely responsible for determining the quantity and variety of crops we grow, and what and how much we eat.
Salmon-Safe, Ecotrust Food & Farms Program, Edible Portland and Slow Food Portland have invited Daniel Imhoff, author of Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to a Food and Farm Bill, and other experts to provide consumers and activists with the information that we'll need to start the food fight that delivers a more sustainable future.
Portland Food Fight
Monday, March 5, 5:30-7:30pm
Billy Frank Jr. Conference Center
Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center721 NW Ninth Avenue
Portland, Oregon
The event features complimentary food from Slow Food Portland as well as wine tasting with Willamette Valley Vineyards, Salmon-Safe certified since 1998. Find out more about the event at www.salmonsafe.org or call us at 503.232.3750.
Dan Imhoff is author of Farming with the Wild and co-founder and president of the Wild Farm Alliance.
Contact Information
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voice: 503-232-3750
web: http://www.salmonsafe.org
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Salmon-Safe · 805 SE 32nd Avenue · Portland · OR · 97214
Organic sheets on sale - Get Toxic Free Now!
Gaiam is having a great sale on organic cotton bedding - CLICK HERE to check it out.
LUNAFEST
Last night was the LUNAFEST put on by Luna bars (part of Clif bars) at Paramount Studios. This traveling filmfest by and for women was put on as a fund raiser for the Children's Health Environment Coalition (which rocks - make sure to visit their site) and the Breast Cancer Fund (have you checked your breasts today?). This is a serious showing of intelligent, educational, inspiring films totalling no more than 90 minutes. CLICK HERE for a taste of the films.
New Cool Links at the Farm
From a Diet Community to Organic Vacationing to Podcasts - CLICK HERE for cool links from the Farm.
Get Clean Now
Get Clean Now!
It’s time to get clean now! FarmGirl and the Gang have created a variety of downloadable PDF’s for your education and use. CLICK HERE to download some useful PDF's.
How much does a dairy cow consume in a day?
A dairy cow consumes 35 gallons of water and 20 pounds of grain & concentrated feed in just one day! CLICK HERE to Learn More.
National Ag Day is coming up on March 21, 2007. What are you doing to celebrate? Let us know!
National Ag Day is coming up on March 21, 2007. What are you doing to celebrate? Let us know!
Reformers hope to change how the farm bill is written
Reformers hope to change how the farm bill is written
Posted on Mon, Jan. 22, 2007
WASHINGTON - Hope springs eternal, or least every five years, for farm bill reformers like Sacramento, Calif.-based activist Michael Harris. More money for minority farmers. Tighter limits on agribusiness subsidies. More conservation aid. Beefed-up urban
food programs. In these areas and more, Harris and his allies believe Congress can get farm policy right this year. "This is an opportunity for all small farms, and specifically for black farmers," Harris said. "We're not going to just fight; we're going to be part of the process." On Monday, Harris joined the latest - but by no means final - farm bill coalition in unveiling a package of reform proposals. The alliance of family farm, environmental, labor and public health groups leans to the left; their political
clout remains to be seen. The playing field, after all, is getting full. The California Table Grape Commission, the Western Growers Association and others have their Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance. They want billions of dollars for research, marketing and more, embodying their hopes in a bill now being drafted by Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Calif., and others. "For the first time, specialty crop agriculture will be handled in a fair and equitable manner," Cardoza said in September, when he introduced an early version of the bill. Northeastern lawmakers are meanwhile preparing their own proposals covering dairy and land conservation. Some free-market Republicans like Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona have a competing Farm Bill Policy Forum, skeptical of traditional crop subsidies. Longtime lobbyists for cotton, rice, and corn are allied to keep what they can.
All are maneuvering to shape the federal farm policies last revised in 2002. "The politics surrounding farm policy have changed in the last five years," contended Scott Faber, an attorney with Environmental Defense. Sometimes, the coalitions try to make a splash.
On Monday, for instance, members of the Farm and Food Policy Project released their 16 pages worth of recommendations. They range from bigger land conservation programs to "means of redress" for minority farmers and ranchers who faced Agriculture Department discrimination. "These would be catch-up opportunities for those were left out," said Harris, the California state director of the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association.
Disney's awesome interactive website!
Check out Disney's new interactive website - CLICK HERE - and go play some games about nutrition and more!
I'm off to spend some time there now....
I'm off to spend some time there now....
National Ag Day is coming up!
Teachers, parents, one and all - It is that time of year once again. National Ag Day is March 21, 2007. What do you have in store? CLICK HERE for your 1-2-3 guide on how to make a splash in your community.
From Almonds to Obesity - Learn More!
From almonds to childhood obesity. Click here for some history.
California Cotton growers use Integrated Pest Management
California cotton growers utilize integrated pest management
In 2000, the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program (UC IPM) conducted a comprehensive survey of pest management decision-making and pest control practices of cotton growers in the 11 major cotton-
producing counties of California. The results indicate progress in growers’ knowledge and implementation of IPM principles and techniques, although....CLICK HERE to learn more....
This is important news! In my lifetime I want to read this same report but replace IPM with organic. Tho I'm young, I have no control over when I will end so we better get this going now!
In 2000, the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program (UC IPM) conducted a comprehensive survey of pest management decision-making and pest control practices of cotton growers in the 11 major cotton-
producing counties of California. The results indicate progress in growers’ knowledge and implementation of IPM principles and techniques, although....CLICK HERE to learn more....
This is important news! In my lifetime I want to read this same report but replace IPM with organic. Tho I'm young, I have no control over when I will end so we better get this going now!
Meg speaks out about Pollan's latest article about the Age of Nutrition
Michael Pollan's nine key points
From last weekend's The New York Times Magazine comes Michael Pollan's latest article about The Age of Nutritionism. I would've written about it sooner but it took me until last night to finish reading it. It's 12 pages long. While the entire thing is absolutely worth reading, he ends with a "few (flagrantly unscientific) rules of thumb collected in the course of [his] nutritional odyssey" that bear repeating here, with my notes:
Check out more of Meg by Clicking Here!
Create a Life-ism at Luna
Part of nutrition is body and soul - how are yours doing? I CLICKED here and created a life-ism to keep me on track. Check it out!
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