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10 Things Slow Food USA Can Do to Gain Direction As It Sees Its Way Into 2012

10 Things Slow Food USA Can Do to Gain Direction As It Sees Its Way Into 2012

Since Slow Food Nation in 2008, it seems that Slow Food USA has been adrift, even while validly trying to redefine its identity, shed the image of elitism, and embrace food justice as a core concern. Nevertheless, we share the hope that Slow Food will remain effective as a broad “big tent” organization dedicated to “taste education” through preserving and promoting food that “good, clean and fair” and the farmers, fishers, and others who produce it.

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SRP, Phoenix neighborhood find palm-tree solution

SRP, Phoenix neighborhood find palm-tree solution

Salt River Project has mostly resolved the conflict in an east Phoenix neighborhood where rare black-sphinx date palms growing close to power lines threaten to cause fires or blackouts. A year ago, SRP offered several residents in the Mountgrove subdivision in the Arcadia area $100 each to remove their trees, but many balked because they prize the heirloom date palms, which are not found in a grove anywhere else.

Drakes Estero oyster farm a natural fit

Drakes Estero oyster farm a natural fit

Is an oyster farm compatible with wilderness values? The purpose of the 1970 National Environmental Policy Act – under which the National Park Service alleges authority to prepare an environmental impact statement on Drakes Bay Oyster Co. operations – was “to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony.”

Gary’s Vision – The Big Picture…

Gary’s Vision – The Big Picture…

More than seventy years ago, Aldo Leopold first compared wholeness and health in the human body with those attributes in farmscapes. In a prophetic essay entitled “The Farmer as a Conservationist,” Leopold (1939, 1999) offered this analogy: “It seems to me that the pattern of the rural landscape, like the configuration of our own bodies, has in it (or should have in it) a certain wholeness.”

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