August 16th, 2012  By Kyle Rabin

With nearly 100 percent certainty I can assure you we won’t be hearing President Barack Obama and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, or their respective surrogates, talking about America’s food waste dilemma (or what I and others would describe as a crisis)…

Promoting social change via vermiculture

[ "There is a big trend for community gardening and urban agriculture right now. I’m all for people growing their own food. I have concern about the ways that community gardening and urban agriculture efforts can be controlled by well meaning, white folks who typically have both white skin privilege and class privilege.” ]

—Dean Jackson, Director of Hilltop Urban Gardens…

Sprawl Consumes 585,000 acres of Farmland in Ohio ➔

my question is the same can be said for urban land give aways.  community members that have been in cleveland for generations are being ignored.  big ag or a B.A., masters degree win out in the urban sprawl land rush.  check the facts yourself or better yet .....

Detroit is hurting, for sure. All the statistics about lagging graduation rates and economic stagnation can be implied in single photograph of an empty street, the cinders of an…

Cleveland State University and Neighborhood Progress Inc. invite you to join us on Thursday, February 17^th to celebrate the success of ReImagining Cleveland. Hear from grassroots leaders, the City of Cleveland, and regional experts in Vacant Land Reuse planning and policy. Also, join us for a reception and the ReImagining Cleveland Photo-Documentation Exhibition opening. Several local experts and organizations will be on hand to answer all of your questions and let you know…

Sustainable Food and Privilege: Why is Green Always White (and Male and Upper-Class) | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

People’s Grocery: Healthy food for everyone!

Even though I usually buy my groceries at Gelson’s (only because it’s a short walk from my apartment), I’ve been adverse to their existence since I visited my first Gelson’s in high school (Pasadena). Walking into the pristinely kept “Super Market”, I thought to myself, “Why do rich people need their own grocery store? Do…

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My family has always eaten tofu. So many delicious varieties of tofu prepared in so many different ways! But I never ate it as a kid, rejecting it as something foreign and strange that would make me foreign and strange if I were to eat it. Do you know when I really started enjoying it? When I became a vegetarian activist and saw that White people could like it too, and it didn’t make…

City Council Analyzes New York’s Food Industry - NYTimes.com

The study, obtained by The New York Times, breaks down the food system into five steps: agriculture, processing, distribution, consumption and post-consumption. For each, it lays out proposals, alongside brightly colored charts and the occasional picture of a cow or children.

Along with scholars, advocates and union…