… looking at both natural and industrialized approaches to the business and science of growing food, along with their economic, health, and environmental impacts.

Check out these resources from the Alliance:

• Impacts of Sustainable and Industrial Agriculture on Human Health, a student research report
• Healthy Food for Healthy Communities
• Campus Food – Is It Sustainable & Healthy?
• Sustainable Campus Dining – Resources

If food is one of your interests, we invite you to join the Food.LV email group – this group is open to facilitate discussion of food-health concerns, access to fresh food, composting, sustainable growing, fair trade, and sustainable campus dining.

Also see:

• A Jurassic Park of GDP monsters, by Vandana Shiva [in Asian Age]
• Youth Food Bill of Rights

Additional links for food & farming:

• Food Alliance
• Food & Water Watch
• Natural Resources Conservation Service
  [part of USDA, but doing some good things with small farmers]
• NOFA [Northeast Organic Farming Association]
• PASA [Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture]
• Real Food Challenge
• Weston A. Price Foundation
• Wild Farm Alliance

Here we focus on rethinking the ways we live and the ways society and its systems are structured. It includes approaches, perspectives, and philosophies that can empower our pursuit of sustainability, getting more specific about the frameworks for thinking and action given in the Finding Solutions part of the Think Globally section, namely, the models of change available to help us understand the various aspects of the problem we are facing and to help us move towards sustainability.

The change paradigms are a varied lot. Some focus on specific objectives, some are holistic. Some are weighted toward “taking action” strategies, some toward conceptualization, some are rather balanced in dealing with both theory and practice. They all can find expression in local, regional, national and/or world-wide actions. They all can inspire us and help us find the way.

Please contact us about models for change that you would like to see added to this listing.

In today’s world economy, where profits rule and small-scale producers are left out of the bargaining process, farmers, craft producers, and other workers are often left without resources or hope for their future.

Fair Trade helps stop this cycle of exploitation and encompasses a range of goods from the global south, from agricultural products such as coffee, chocolate, tea, and bananas to handcrafts such as clothing, household items, and decorative arts.

• Big Changes in Fair Trade!
• Chocolate: The Bitter Truth
• Support Authentic Fair Trade
• Fair Trade links & resources
• Where can I purchase Fair Trade products?

Food is one essential element for life, of course. Unfortunately, much of the food from the industrialized food system actually undermines health instead of supporting it. This category identifies articles that focus on health impacts of food and food choices.

Agriculture is at the root of the local economy and of viable, sustainable communities. It provides resources – food, fiber, and more – as well as productive work, community cohesion, opportunities for engagement, and stewardship responsibilities. In order to understand it’s importance in society, one must understand how agriculture works and what it effects and how it is effected.