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CASINO LOCALE: A RAUCOUS YEAR OF EATING LOCALLY
JB MacKinnon and Alisa Smith, authors of the book, “Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet ” Vancouver British Columbia.
When the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically travelled at least 1,500 miles—call it “the SUV diet.” On the first day of spring, 2005, Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon (bios) chose to confront this unsettling statistic with a simple experiment. For one year, they would buy or gather their food and drink from within 100 miles of their apartment in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Since then, James and Alisa have gotten up-close-and-personal with issues ranging from the family-farm crisis to the environmental value of organic pears shipped across the globe. They’ve reconsidered vegetarianism and sunk their hands into community gardening. They’ve eaten a lot of potatoes.
Their 100-Mile Diet struck a deeper chord than anyone could have predicted. Within weeks, reprints of their blog at thetyee.ca had appeared on sites across the internet. Then came the media, from BBC Worldwide to Utne magazine. Dozens of individuals and grassroots groups have since launched their own 100-Mile Diet adventures. The need now is clear: a locus where 100-milers can get the information they need to try their own lifestyle experiments, and to exchange ideas and develop campaigns. That locus will be here at 100MileDiet.org—turning an idea into a movement.
Technorati Tags: Eat Local, Eat, Local, Thanksgiving, Washington, Energy, Climate, Sustainability, Farmers Market, Cooking
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PYRAMIDS ARE FOREVER: TEACHING AUDIENCES WITH LIMITED RESOURCES
Kathleen Manenica, MS, CN, WSU Food Sense Program, Puyallup.
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FEAR OF FRESH: FOOD SAFETY CONCERNS AND FRESH PRODUCE
Janet Anderberg, RS, Washington State Department of Health, Olympia. Janet is a Food Safety Expert with over 30 years of experience.
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TOMORROW NEVER DIES: THE STATE OF WASHINGTON’S CHILD
Louise Carter, PhD, Director of Communications, Human Services Policy Center, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington.
She writes and edits a wide variety of materials for the Center, and oversees production of Center online and print publications. She has worked as senior editor at Northwest Health magazine and Microsoft Corporation. She was a member of the psychology faculty at the University of Washington, and has taught in universities in the U.S. and Europe. She helped design an infant/toddler daycare facility and spearheaded a 15-show radio series and instructional package on child rearing, family life, education, and development. Freelance work includes curriculum development and publications on mental health, public health, medicine, behavior change, and nutrition.
Contact: slcarter@u.washington.edu, phone (206) 685-2780
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Linda Stone, Eastern Washington Director
Linda is the Eastern Washington Director of the Children’s Alliance. Since 1994 she has been a national leader on food policy work and was recognized as national child advocate of the year in 1998. She has also led advocacy efforts in the Alliance’s Eastern Washington office and chaired a regional ten state coalition on anti-hunger issues.
In 1997 when Congress revoked food stamps for legal immigrants, Linda pushed for state funds to restore food stamps for Washington’s immigrants. Most recently, in her work with the Western Regional Anti Hunger Consortium, she successfully advocated for the national reinstatement of food stamps for legal immigrants and an additional $6.5 billion in funds for the national food stamp program. Linda has been with the Children’s Alliance since 1994.
Linda is a 22 year resident of Spokane. Prior to joining the Children’s Alliance, she directed the Governor’s Task Force on Hunger and founded Washington Food Policy Action Center. She is a graduate of the College of William and Mary, and Clemson University with a Masters in City and Regional Planning. Linda’s daughter,Tegra, is a freshman at Connecticut College in New London, CT.
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Representative Kelli Linville, D-42, Majority Chair, House Economic Development, Agriculture and Trade Committee
Senator Mark Schoesler, R-9, Minority Chair, Senate Committee, Agriculture & Rural Development
Senator Marilyn Rasmussen, D-2, Majority Chair, Senate Committee, Agriculture & Rural Development
Fred Kirschenmann, PhD, longtime leader in national and international sustainable agriculture, distinguished fellow and former director for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University.
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Don Stuart, JD, is the Director of American Farmland Trust’s Pacific Northwest Puyallup, WA office, working with communities and farmers in the Pacific Northwest to establish programs for farmland protection and stewardship. He serves as the contact for Shared Strategy’s Pioneers in Conservation grant program. He was the prior Executive Director of the Washington Association of Conservation Districts.
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