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/2009/08/19/urban-agriculture-sprouting-farms-on-rooftops-and-empty-lots/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/08/19/urban-agriculture-sprouting-farms-on-rooftops-and-empty-lots/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:36:39 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/?p=1550 http://www.cchange.net/2009/08/19/urban-agriculture-sprouting-farms-on-rooftops-and-empty-lots/feed/ 2 Green Building,Green Jobs,organic farming,rooftop greenhouses,urban agriculture Sea Change Radio returns for a second week’s coverage of the 35th Annual Conference of the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA.) Sea Change Co-Host Bill Baue speaks with Gardening the Community (GtC) Director Ippy Amatul-Wadud and her sister Qa... (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Ippy3.jpg)(http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Alice-150x150.jpg) Sea Change Radio returns for a second week’s coverage of the 35th Annual Conference of the Northeast Organic Farming Association (http://www.nofa.org/index.php) (NOFA.) Sea Change Co-Host Bill Baue speaks with Gardening the Community (http://gardeningthecommunity.blogspot.com/) (GtC) Director Ippy Amatul-Wadud and her sister Qamaria about this project (http://www.nofamass.org/programs/gtc/index.php) of NOFA Massachusetts (http://www.nofamass.org/index.php) that teaches youth about organic farming in the city.  And he also speaks with Top Sprouts (http://topsprouts.com/main/index.php) co-founders Alice Leung and Akshay Kolte (http://topsprouts.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=55) about their startup company that puts greenhouses atop downtown buildings (http://topsprouts.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=44). Last week’s show (http://www.cchange.net/2009/08/12/growing-food-growing-community/) featured keynoter Will Allen (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/magazine/05allen-t.html) of Growing Power (http://www.growingpower.org/) in Chicago singing praises to inner-city youth for teaching him the value of bridging generations by connecting to the land.  This week, we speak with some of those inner-city youth who are seeding a love for urban agriculture. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Qamiria3-150x150.jpg)Bill caught up with sisters Ippy and Qamaria Amatul-Wadud of Gardening the Community in the exhibition tent at the NOFA conference, where the youth team tabling for GtC stood out in their orange t-shirts.  Ippy and Qamaria’s enthusiasm shone brighter than their shirts, as they described their passion for urban gardening.  Amidst the din of the crowds, Bill asked Qamaria to explain what Gardening the Community does -- and what her favorite aspect of the program, based in Springfield, Massachusetts, is.  The commitment to biking (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/gtc-bike-150x150.jpg)as transportation to and from the gardens, Qamaria responded without skipping a beat, as it avoids driving cars and burning fossil fuels! Next, Bill spoke with Ibtihaj, or Ippy, the nickname she goes by.  She piggybacked on her sister’s comments, describing in depth what it means for her to be director of Gardening the Community. Last week, Sea Change Co-Host Francesca Rheannon invited presenters Abby Youngblood of Just Food (http://www.justfood.org/jf/) in New York City and Scott Kellogg of the Rhizome Collective (http://archive.rhizomecollective.org/) in Austin, Texas for an interview in the nearby WMUA studios, where we produce Sea Change.  At the end of the interview, they touched on the issue of rooftop greenhouses.  At about the same time, Bill was in the exhibition tent chatting with (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Akshay-150x150.jpg)Akshay Kolte about Top Sprouts, a startup company he’s co-founding with Alice Leung to put greenhouses on rooftops in Boston and throughout New England.  The brief interview left Bill hungry for more information on Top Sprouts, so he arranged a phone interview with Kolte and Heung. The team described how the idea to launch Top Sprouts(http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/TopSprouts-150x150.jpg) got planted in their heads.  They also discuss the potential for stimulus funding to support rooftop greenhouses in the future, as well as their intention of engaging with the US Green Building Council (http://www.usgbc.org/)urging them to add points to LEED certification (http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CategoryID=19) for rooftop greenhouses.  Finally, they touch on the social justice aspects of urban agriculture, affirming their intention to make rooftop greenhouses available for low-income housing, Bill Baue clean 29:30 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