Tag Archives: Sustainable Agriculture

Securing The Foodshed: Philip Ackerman-Leist

April 16, 2013Full Showagriculture, food, food security, Sustainable AgricultureAlex Wise

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There is little disagreement that urban farming translates into increased access to local, sustainable, and healthy food, and that this is a very good thing. But how is it done? What are the success stories of urban farming? And what exactly is a “foodshed?” Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio is Philip Ackerman-Leist, an author, educator and farmer. We learn about foodsheds and discuss how urban farming has proliferated in cities like Cleveland, Detroit and Oakland. He also tells host Alex Wise about how today’s global menu and palate are creating a carbon-intensive food transport problem, and shares some of his best thinking on the ways to get a new generation of Americans engaged in helping ensure our food security future.

Back To the Future: Pasture, Local Wheat and Water Power

October 28, 2009Full Showagribusiness, Climate Change, mass humanities, Sustainable AgricultureFrancesca Rheannon

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Hungry Ghost Bread-Cheryl Maffei & Jonathan Stevens — Cheryl Maffei & Jonathan Stevens of Hungry Ghost Bread

Massachusetts has a deep agricultural history stretching back before the days of chemical-based industrial agribusiness. How are farmers using older methods to make the transition to more sustainable agriculture? Sea Change Co-Host Francesca Rheannon goes to the Colrain Dairy to talk with Larry Shearer about his low-impact, pasture-based method of organic dairying. She then talks with Cheryl Maffei of The Hungry Ghost Bakery’s Little Red Hen local wheat-growing project . Finally, she interviews historian Dan Bennett about the use of water to power grist and sawmills in the smaller communities of the Connecticut River Valley.

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A Summer of Sea Change Radio

September 9, 2009Sea Change BlogBiomass, Clean energy, Climate Bill, Climate Change, Green Jobs, greenhouse gas emissions, Sustainable Agriculture, urban agricultureBill Baue

Labor Day’s come and gone, and the leaves are starting to turn color here in New England, so we at Sea Change are highlighting some of our summer programming. We focused a lot on sustainable agriculture, economic alternatives, green jobs, and the climate crisis. Check out some of our summer shows below.

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Banking Futures: Making Money Sustainable

June 17, 2009Full ShowAlternative Economic Models, Climate Change, Community Economic Engagement, international finance corporation, Local Living Economies, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Business, Sustainable InnovationBill Baue

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Banks are increasingly viewed as a bane to a healthy economy. But done right, banks can play a key role in the shift to sustainability. Today, Sea Change presents three perspectives on futures for banking. Peter Blom, CEO of Triodos Bank in the Netherlands, proposes a shift in the mission of banks, from maximizing profit to maximizing sustainability. Doug Rushkoff, author of [amazon-product text=”LIFE INC” type=”text”]1400066891[/amazon-product], discusses how a surplus of debt that banks needed to sell triggered the financial meltdown. LyleEstill And Lyle Estill describes the role a chapter in his book [amazon-product text=”SMALL IS POSSIBLE” type=”text”]086571603X[/amazon-product] played in a local currency in North Carolina, The Plenty, being carried by a local bank.

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Peace and Environmental Justice Taking Root

April 15, 2009Full ShowAlternative Economic Models, Climate Change, Community Economic Engagement, Green Jobs, Green Living, Local Living Economies, nobel peace prize, Renewable Energy, Social Entrepreneurs, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Innovation, Sustainable Public Policy, wangari maathaiBill Baue

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Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue of Sea Change host an intimate chat with Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai about the links between environmental justice, women’s empowerment, democratic governance, and sustainability at the Marlboro College Graduate School, where Baue teaches. Maathai is touring the US promoting her new book, “The Challenge For Africa,” as well as the documentary, TAKING ROOT: The Vision of Wangari Maathai. In the second half of the show, Rheannon and Baue speak with the filmmakers, Alan Dater and Lisa Merton of Marlboro Productions.

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Seeding the Solidarity Economy

March 25, 2009Full ShowAlternative Economic Models, center for popular economics, Climate Change, Community Economic Engagement, emily kawano, Fair Trade, Green Jobs, Green Living, human rights, Labor Rights, Local Living Economies, Renewable Energy, Social Entrepreneurs, solidarity economy, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Business, sustainable economyBill Baue

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The Center for Popular Economics (CPE) recently hosted the first Forum on the Solidarity Economy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst — home of Sea Change Radio. CPE Executive Director Emily Kawano explains the theory and practice behind the solidarity economy, and discusses strategies and next steps for the US Solidarity Economy Network in cultivating a socially and environmentally sustainable economy. And Chilo Villarreal of the Coalición Rural in Mexico illustrates solidarity economy concepts through story. Finally, the News Analysis examines the business of water.

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Village to Reinvent the World – Creating a Sustainable Community

March 18, 2009Full ShowAlternative Economic Models, Clean Tech, Climate Change, Green Building, Green Living, Local Living Economies, Renewable Energy, Robert Weissman, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Innovation, Wall Street WatchBill Baue

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Journalist Alan Weisman talks about his book [amazon-product text=”GAVIOTAS: A Village to Reinvent the World” type=”text”]1603580565[/amazon-product], reissued late last year by Chelsea Green Publishing on the 10th anniversary of its first edition. And in the News Analysis, Rob Weissman of Wall Street Watch talks about its new report, Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America. And support Sea Change in the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Changing Climate Change Contest by clicking here. Finally, Sea Change is on Twitter — we’ll tweet you if you tweet us.

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Making the Case for a Green Stimulus

February 18, 2009Full ShowClean Tech, Climate Change, EPA, global warming, Green Building, Green Jobs, Green Living, Renewable Energy, stimulus, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Innovation, Sustainable Public PolicyBill Baue

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alexbowen greenstimulus Alex Bowen, a Principal Research Fellow at The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment of the London School of Economics, discusses An Outline of the Case for a ‘Green’ Stimulus, a report he co-authored with Lord Nicholas Stern, the man behind the 2006 Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. And in the ViewPoint, Donald Bartlett of the investigative journalism team Bartlett and Steele advances the idea of a Federal Reserve for health care.Read the show transcript

Slow Money = Compost for Growing New Economy

February 4, 2009Full ShowAlternative Economic Models, Climate Change, Community Economic Engagement, Fair Trade, Green Living, jessie smith noyes foundation, katy lederer, Local Living Economies, steve viederman, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Business, Sustainable InnovationBill Baue

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Today we measure the speed of money. Woody Tasch discusses his book, [amazon-product text=”Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered” type=”text”]1603580069[/amazon-product]. And Katy Lederer transforms her experience working in the fast money culture of Wall Street into poetry in the book , [amazon-product text=”The Heaven-Sent Leaf” type=”text”]1934414158[/amazon-product].Read the show transcript

After Capitalism: PROUT as a Sustainable, Democratic Economic Model

January 28, 2009Full ShowAlternative Economic Models, Clean Tech, Climate Change, climate policy, Climate Progress, Community Economic Engagement, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, EPA, greenhouse gas emissions, joe romm, Lisa Woll, Local Living Economies, Obama, progressive utilization theory, Renewable Energy, Social Entrepreneurs, stimulus package, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Business, Sustainable InnovationBill Baue

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[amazon-product align=”right”]1877762067[/amazon-product]Today, Dada Maheshvarananda meditates on the alternative economic model of Progressive Utilization Theory, or PROUT. Joe Romm of Climate Progress analyzes the climate resolve of the Obama Administration. Lisa Woll of the Social Investment Forum proposes an Office for Innovation in Corporate Social Responsibility to the Obama Administration. And auto and environment expert Jim Motavalli comments on the significance of President Obama’s executive order directing the EPA to reconsider its refusal to grant California a waiver allowing it to regulate greenhouse gases from autos.

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