http://www.cchange.net Covering the transformations to social, environment and economic sustainability Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:08:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Sea Change Radio covers the transformations to social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Change is accelerating in positive and negative directions: the clock is ticking in the race to see which will tip first—the problems or the solutions. Join Sea Change's Host, Alex Wise, as he provides in-depth analysis to help our audience understand possible remedies and potential pitfalls. Sea Change interviews sustainability experts including Paul Hawken, Stewart Brand, Bill McKibben, Van Jones, Lester Brown, and many others. Sea Change airs on over 30 radio stations around the country. Alex Wise clean Alex Wise awise@cchange.net awise@cchange.net (Alex Wise) 2007-2011 Making Connections for Sustainability Sustainability, Climate Change, Human Rights, Environment, Corporate Responsibility, Socially Responsible Investing, Accountability, Stakeholders, Clean Tech, Renewable Energy, Green Jobs, Wealth Divide http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/cwr-images-archive/SeaChangeRadioTAG_square144_sm.jpg http://www.cchange.net Weekly http://www.cchange.net/2011/08/23/salad-days/ http://www.cchange.net/2011/08/23/salad-days/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:22:01 +0000 Alex Wise http://www.cchange.net/?p=3681 http://www.cchange.net/2011/08/23/salad-days/feed/ 0 alex wise,capay organic,farmfreshtoyou.com,organic farm,sea change radio,thaddeus barsotti A discussion with a Northern California farmer about what it takes for small farms to compete in today's marketplace (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Thaddeus-Barsotti.jpg)(http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/veggies-ma-farmer-market-150x150.jpg)This week on Sea Change Radio, host Alex Wise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Wise) speaks with Thaddeus Barsotti, a second generation organic farmer who grows and distributes fresh fruits and vegetables in Northern California through his family's companies, Capay Organic (http://www.capayorganic.com/) and Farm Fresh To You (http://www.farmfreshtoyou.com/index.php). Barsotti talks about the challenges that small farmers face including a distribution system for produce that’s heavily oriented toward large producers and markets. So what’s a little farming operation to do? One solution is the CSA – Community Supported Agriculture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-supported_agriculture) – where farmers cut out the “middle man” and distribute directly to the consumer, literally to your door. Barsotti talks about the role that the internet has played in promoting local small farmers and what we can do as consumers to make sure we’re eating local produce and supporting smaller farmers. Alex Wise clean http://www.cchange.net/2009/11/18/back-to-the-future-to-market-to-market/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/11/18/back-to-the-future-to-market-to-market/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:55:44 +0000 Francesca Rheannon http://www.cchange.net/?p=2123 http://www.cchange.net/2009/11/18/back-to-the-future-to-market-to-market/feed/ 0 amherst farmers market,back to the future,CISA,delta organic farm,farmers markets,historian,local economy,MA Humanities,margaret christie,mass humanities,organic farm,rural capitalism The second episode of our Back To The Future series looks at the revival of a locally based food system in western Massachusetts. We talk with Margaret Christie of CISA (Community In Support of Agriculture), The second episode of our Back To The Future (http://www.cchange.net/mass-humanities/) series looks at the revival of a locally based food system in western Massachusetts. We talk with Margaret Christie of CISA (http://www.buylocalfood.org/) (Community... Francesca Rheannon clean 28:48 http://www.cchange.net/2009/08/12/growing-food-growing-community/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/08/12/growing-food-growing-community/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:00:28 +0000 Francesca Rheannon http://www.cchange.net/?p=1543 http://www.cchange.net/2009/08/12/growing-food-growing-community/feed/ 2 Abby Youngblood,erik hoffner,fresh food,Grist,Growing Power,Just Food,organic farm,organic farming,orion grassroots network,scott kellogg,sustainable city,sustainable urban agriculture Sea Change Radio goes to the Northeast Organic Farm Association conference to talk with Will Allen of Growing Power, Abby Youngblood of Just Food, and Scott Kellogg, author of TOOLBOX FOR SUSTAINABLE CITY LIVING. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/wil-allen.jpg) Sea Change Radio goes to the Northeast Organic Farm Association conference to talk with Will Allen (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/magazine/05allen-t.html) of Growing Power (http://www.growingpower.org/), Abby Youngblood of Just Food (http://www.justfood.org/jf/), and Scott Kellogg, author of  (http://www.amazon.com/Toolbox-Sustainable-City-Living-Ourselves/dp/0896087808). A couple of weeks ago, Sea Change co-host Francesca Rheannon wrote an article titled Why Posterity Matters. In it, she lauded the efforts of PS 11 in Brooklyn (http://fort-greene.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/ps-11/), New York to educate its young students about the importance of good fresh food. The kids grow vegetables in the community garden next door. PS 11 serves a neighborhood that, while beginning to gentrify, is still predominantly poor, one where the problems of obesity and lack of access to affordable, healthy fresh food are rife -- and related. How to bring healthy, organic  food to low income communities was a recurrent theme at the recent conference (http://www.nofamass.org/conferences/index.php) of the Northeast Organic Farming Association, or NOFA (http://www.nofamass.org/index.php). Our first guest, Will Allen, was the keynote speaker. He says healthy food is at the forefront of community development; it’s a social justice issue to make sure all people have same access to good food. Allen is a leader in the movement to bring affordable organic food to all communities, especially city dwellers who usually can’t afford it. But Growing Power, the national organization he founded and directs, is about much more than that: it’s about building community by building skills, education and enterprise in sustainable urban agriculture. Right now, its work is centered in Milwaukee and Chicago, and comprises greenhouses, aquaculture operations and intensive composting. FOSCR (Friend of Sea Change Radio) Erik Hoffner (http://www.grist.org/member/1604) of Grist.org and the Orion Grassroots Network (http://www.oriongrassroots.org/) also met with Will Allen at the NOFA conference. Check out that interview here at Grist.org (http://www.grist.org/article/urban-ag-revolution). Abby Youngblood coordinates a program called Fresh Food For All. It’s run out of Just Food (http://www.justfood.org/about/), a nonprofit in NYC that works to establish a strong regional food system that’s socially just as well as environmentally sound. The program trains community gardeners all over the city, including in low income neighborhoods. It also connects urban residents with ex-urban farmers through farmers' markets and CSA (http://www.localharvest.org/csa/)'s. Scott Kellogg is the co-founder of the Rhizome Collective (http://archive.rhizomecollective.org/) of Austin, Tx, an education project promoting affordable sustainability. He’s now moved to Albany New York, where he’s replicating the collective as "Radix". Kellogg is also author of the book, TOOLBOX FOR SUSTAINABLE CITY LIVING. He tells us about creative, affordable and low tech ways to grow food, recycle wastes and produce energy for ourselves in an urban environment. Francesca Rheannon clean 29:42