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Chicago forum focuses on ethics, sustainability

by Cassandra West October 25, 2010 environment
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Share Sky If the sky knew half of what we’re doing down here it would be stricken, inconsolable, and we would have nothing but rain — Brian Turner Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson, the editors of “Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril,” will be at the Chicago Botanic Garden Friday, [...]

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Woodlawn garden wins Chicago landscape award

by Editor October 20, 2010 Community gardening

Share By Susan Richardson The 65th Street and Woodlawn Community Garden recently won first prize in Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s Landscape Awards in the vegetable garden category, competing against 13 other gardens. The Cook County Sheriff’s Office, which runs a vegetable garden at the County Jail, and the Fulton Street Flower and Vegetable Garden [...]

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A visit to Camden NJ’s green soup kitchen

by Cassandra West June 16, 2010 Green movement

Share CAMDEN, NJ — On Tuesday, a group attending the Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders Forum in Philadelphia visited the Cathedral Kitchen in Camden, N.J., which has provided hot, nutritious meals and other services to residents since 1976. In 2008, Cathedral Kitchen broke the emergency food service mold when it opened a 13,000-square-foot facility [...]

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Shabazz Food Hub connects farms and cities

by Editor May 27, 2010 Community
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Share A young volunteer at Shabazz Food Hub Market Days By Susan Richardson The smell of mustard greens sautéed in olive oil with garlic fills the air in an auditorium at Betty Shabazz International Charter School in Chicago.  People browse and buy produce and seedlings on a Saturday afternoon. It is Market Day at the Shabazz [...]

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GREEN FESTIVAL REPORT: Benefiting from the Green Economy

by Editor May 23, 2010 Community

Share COMMENTARY By Susan Richardson As Nicholas Lemann explains in The Promised Land, the advent of the mechanical cotton picker in the 1940s displaced black sharecroppers, adding to the Great Migration of African-Americans from the South to the North. Technological changes have always had an economic, social and racial impact.  Today, as we face another economic shift – [...]

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Tom Tresser, Green Party candidate for Cook County Bd. president, talks urban agriculture

by Cassandra West May 19, 2010 Community

Share Seeding Chicago met Tom Tresser, Green Party candidate for Cook County Board president, last Saturday following a live broadcast of “The Mike Nowak Show” (WCPT 820-AM), held at Third Unitarian Church in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood. The special radio broadcast, called “Growing in Austin,” featured urban agriculture activists and community development groups, including CEDA (Community [...]

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Healthy Food Bill Introduced in US Senate

by Editor April 13, 2010 Green movement

Share By Susan Richardson New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand introduced a new bill Monday aimed at bringing healthy food to underserved communities.  The Healthy Food Financing Initiative, which is supported by the Obama administration, would invest $1 billion in grants and loans to build more than 2,100 new or renovated grocery stores, corner stores, and farmers’ markets [...]

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Supporting the Healthy Food Financing Initiative

by Editor April 11, 2010 environment

Share By Susan Richardson President Obama has set aside $345 million in his 2011 budget for the Healthy Food Financing Initiative, a program that will provide one-time loans and grant funding to increase healthy food options in underserved communities. Read more about the initiative, which is based on a business model from Philadelphia, and what [...]

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