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Slow Food Nation Interview: Raj Patel 'Stuffed and Starved' author on the myth of consumer choice	Tom Philpott	05 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Raj Patel, author of the searing book Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, is one of the most trenchant critics of industrial food.According to Patel, one billion people in the world don't have enough to eat, while another billion suffer from the consequences of too many low-quality calories. The phenomena are the result of a food system rigged to work for a few multinational corporations.In the video interview below, Patel talks about the d ...
Topics: events, San Francisco, agriculture, slow food, food, interview, video (all these topics)

Slow Down, Slow Food! Slow Food Nation was magnificent in many ways, but overshot its mandate	Tom Philpott	05 Sep 2008	Victual Reality
Photo: karmacamilleeon Slow Food Nation -- that grand, sprawling culinary event that seemed to permeate San Francisco over Labor Day weekend -- has passed. Now we can ask: What was it? A brazen display of foodie elitism, as some critics charge? A transformative moment in an ongoing effort to overthrow the industrial food system, as its organizers sometimes hinted? Slow Food N ...
Topics: agriculture, Alice Waters, environmental justice, food, green living, San Francisco, slow food, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Slow Food Nation interview: Dan Barber New York chef urges people to get back in the kitchen	Tom Philpott	05 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Dan Barber is one of the most highly regarded chefs in the United States. Back in the late 1990s, his small Manhattan restaurant Blue Hill got lots of buzz for Dan's innovative cooking. But even while he was dazzling diners with his technique, Dan was already haunting Manhattan's Union Square Greenmarket for ingredients, before many New York chefs bothered. He was also bringing in produce from his family's farm in the Berkshires. In 2004, Dan launched what must be any i ...
Topics: video, San Francisco, events, slow food, food, agriculture, interview (all these topics)

Slow Food Nation: Unpacking my suitcase Prepare for a bunch of recaps and videos	Tom Philpott	03 Sep 2008	Gristmill
I'm just getting myself together after an incredibly packed four days at Slow Food Nation, which wrapped up Monday in San Francisco. Grist was lucky enough to partner with big-time indy movie studio Participant (maker of Syriana, Fast Food Nation, An Inconvenient Truth, and other worthy films) to conduct a bunch of video interviews at the event. I got to talk to many of my heroes, including Eric Schlosser, Raj Patel, Dan Barber, two bright young farmers (Laura Hess an ...
Topics: events, food, multimedia, San Francisco, slow food (all these topics)

Slow Food Nation: A slow food preamble Wendell Berry's statement of facts	Russ Walker	30 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Poet, essayist, novelist and 'local-ist' Wendell Berry kicked off the final panel of the Slow Food Nation 'Food for Thought' series on Saturday by reading a short statement describing the current food crisis. For too long, humans have been spared, mainly by the cheapness of the fossil fuels, from the universal necessity of local adaptation. It is ultimately an inescapable biological imperative that human land use economies should correspond as closely as possible ...
Topics: slow food, events, food, agriculture, San Francisco (all these topics)

Grist goes to Slow Food Nation Sandwiched between the two political conventions, a slice of food politics from San Francisco	Tom Philpott	27 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Starting Friday, I'll be reporting from Slow Food Nation, a big, multifaceted food confab in San Francisco. What exactly is it? I'll let you know when I figure it out. The event features both Slow Food royalty (Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, Carlo Petrini) and Slow Food critics (like Brahm Ahmadi of Oakland's People's Grocery, who recently penned cogent critique of Slow Food's approach to diversity.) SFN includes everything from wonky policy talks to tastings to blow-o ...
Topics: events, food, San Francisco, slow food (all these topics)

What the Helmet? Anti-bike crusader halts San Francisco's cycle-friendly plans		20 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 8:45 AM on 20 Aug 2008 With a claim that bike lanes increase pollution, a San Francisco resident has managed to put the brakes on the city's pro-biking plans. In 2004, San Francisco unveiled a proposal to create more bike lanes and bike parking, aiming to have 10 percent of city trips taken on two wheels by 2010. Enter Rob Anderson, who doesn't own a car but is no fan of cyclists. "The behavior of the ...
Topics: air pollution, bikes, insanity, news, placemaking, San Francisco (all these topics)

The NYT's 'lazy locavores' The paper of record identifies -- sort of -- a new trend	Tom Philpott	24 Jul 2008	Gristmill
New York Times food reporter Kim Severson has declared a new trend: 'lazy locavores,' people who want to 'eat close to home' but are too time-strapped (or lazy) to put much effort into it. According to Severson, 'a new breed of business owner' has arisen to cater to their whims. She opens her piece with a San Francisco entrepreneur who 'will build an organic garden in your backyard, weed it weekly and even harvest the bounty, gently placing a box of vegetables on ...
Topics: food, gardening, local food, San Francisco, slow food (all these topics)

What's Newsom? Grist talks to San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom about greening the city	Kate Sheppard	20 Jul 2008	Gristmill
San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom stopped by Netroots Nation on Sunday to introduce Van Jones, and he also talked to the crowd about some of the green accomplishments his city has been able to make so far. Newsom has proposed the toughest building standards in the country, and in November 2008 he was planning to submit a carbon tax to voters for their approval (he's now pushed that back to 2009). In March he signed into law a requirement that the city's taxi fleet ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, politics, San Francisco, video (all these topics)

Check Mate, CheckMate California officials yank controversial urban spraying plan		22 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 12:07 PM on 22 Jun 2008 California officials have announced that they will not spray the urban Bay Area with a pheromone this summer, delighting activists who had campaigned strenuously against the plan. The pheromone with the ominous name CheckMate LBAM-F keeps the crop-gobbling light brown apple moth from reproducing, but also has been linked to complaints of respiratory trouble in humans. Spraying had ...
Topics: agriculture, California, health, news, San Francisco, toxics (all these topics)

Sax and the City Found poetry on walkable cities	Gar Lipow	16 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This blog often addresses the importance of walkable cities and towns, localities that are really there -- that have a sense of place. A friendly acquaintance of mine, Jacqueline Smay (wife of popular music guru David Smay, who authored SwordfishTrombones) tossed off this charming note that is more powerful than any statistic: ... it was cold but not bitter out, Union Square was glittering with lights and ringing with the sounds of competing street musicians, and the si ...
Topics: placemaking, public lands, public transportation, San Francisco (all these topics)

Too Bad You Can't Make Energy From Fog San Francisco approves giant solar incentive program		11 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 5:22 PM on 11 Jun 2008 San Francisco has become the proud owner of the largest municipal solar program in the United States. The Solar Energy Incentive Program, approved by the city board of supervisors on Tuesday, will provide rebates to home- and business owners who install solar panels on their buildings. Individuals can receive up to $6,000; businesses can be granted $10,000. Supervisors al ...
Topics: energy, news, placemaking, renewable energy, San Francisco, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Feed your Van Jones crush Premier episode of a new online film series features Jones and Carl Pope	Maywa Montenegro	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
A new online film series called This Brave Nation premiered its first episode Sunday night: a conversation between Carl Pope and Van Jones. Both are natives of Frisco and both are equally adamant about environmental stewardship, but they have vastly different approaches. Here they chat about melding those tactics towards a common goal. Later this month, on June 15, Pete Seeger and Majora Carter discuss environmentalism, protest music, civil rights, and urban renewal ...
Topics: Van Jones, environmental movement, heroes, San Francisco, hotties (all these topics)

4.4 Cents and Sensibility Bay Area initiates first-of-its-kind fee on biz greenhouse-gas emissions		22 May 2008	News
Posted at 8:18 AM on 22 May 2008 Businesses in nine San Francisco Bay Area counties will pay 4.4 cents for every ton of greenhouse gases they spew, after the district air-quality board voted 15-1 Wednesday to approve the fee. Set to take effect July 1, the fee will affect more than 2,500 businesses; the district estimates that perhaps seven power plants and oil refineries will have to pay more tha ...
Topics: business, California, carbon tax, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, regulation, San Francisco (all these topics)

Oh, say can I see a CCA? How communities can choose renewable electricity, part 1	Jon Rynn	05 May 2008	Gristmill
Recently, I had an opportunity to talk with Paul Fenn, who has written or helped write several pioneering pieces of legislation which allow communities to aggregate their electricity purchasing power in order to choose renewable energy. This policy framework is called community choice aggregation, or CCA (of course, if I mangle any of the specifics, it will be from my own lack of understanding). When a CCA is created, the city or town or county can contract with an energy ...
Topics: energy, energy at home, legislation, politics, renewable energy, San Francisco (all these topics)

Encouraging solar installations in cities	David Roberts	18 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Harder than it looks.
Topics: energy, energy at home, renewable energy, San Francisco, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: Thao Nguyen	David Roberts	04 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Thao Nguyen is a San Francisco singer-songwriter who sometimes tours with her band as Thao with the Get Down Sit Down. That's about all I know about her. I love this song from her new album We Brave Bee Stings and All.
Topics: green living, music, San Francisco (all these topics)

Nay, Cap'n Ship pilot charged in San Francisco oil spill		17 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:58 PM on 17 Mar 2008 The pilot of the ship that spilled more than 50,000 gallons of oil into the San Francisco Bay in November has been charged with criminal negligence, harming federally protected birds, and violating the Clean Water Act. If found guilty, Capt. John Cota could face up to 18 months in jail and more than $100,000 in fines. source: Associated Press see also, in Grist: Group urges Congress to ban bunker fuel in ...
Topics: endangered species, energy, litigation, news, oil, politics, San Francisco, water pollution (all these topics)

If Only We Could Afford to Live There San Francisco gets even greener		07 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 3:09 PM on 07 Mar 2008 San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom got jiggy with eco-measures this week. He signed into a law a requirement that the city's taxi fleet be converted to low-emission vehicles by 2011; ordered all city departments to purchase 100 percent recycled paper and reduce overall paper use by 20 percent by 2010; and announced his support for a tidal-energy project in the San Francisco Bay, despite a recent ...
Topics: energy, local politics, news, placemaking, politics, recycling, San Francisco, wave and tidal power (all these topics)

It's Like the Fog, but More Toxic Aerial spraying of pesticide on Bay Area given OK		15 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 4:03 PM on 15 Feb 2008 The California agriculture department has authorized nighttime aerial pesticide spraying on the San Francisco Bay Area this summer in an attempt to eradicate a potentially crop-destroying moth. Similar spraying was done in two other counties this fall, after which more than 600 residents complained of respiratory problems. Application of the pesticide, called Checkmate, was only ...
Topics: agriculture, California, news, San Francisco, toxics (all these topics)

You Win Some, You Newsom San Francisco mayor proposes strict green-building standards		13 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 5:14 PM on 13 Dec 2007 San Francisco would have the most stringent green-building standards in the U.S. if the city Board of Supervisors adopts a new measure proposed yesterday by Mayor Gavin Newsom. By 2012, Newsom wants all new residential buildings over 75 feet tall, commercial buildings of more than 5,000 square feet, and renovations on buildings of more than 25,000 square feet to be certified by ...
Topics: green building, news, placemaking, San Francisco (all these topics)

Suin' 'Bout the Schlock of the Bay San Francisco sues over oil spill, South Korea spill cleanup ongoing		11 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 12:54 PM on 11 Dec 2007 The city of San Francisco has sued the owners of the container ship that hit the iconic Bay Bridge last month and blackened the bay with 58,000 gallons of oil. The "wholly avoidable" accident caused "more injury to the San Francisco Bay Area than we can yet begin to fathom," says the suit, which seeks damages for costs ranging from overtime ...
Topics: habitat loss, news, oil, San Francisco, South Korea, water pollution (all these topics)

Heart a Tax San Francisco mayor proposes city carbon tax		06 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 11:49 AM on 06 Dec 2007 San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has announced that in November 2008 he will submit a carbon tax to voters for their approval. If it passes, it would be only the second such carbon tax in a U.S. city, the first was Boulder, Colo., last year. The draft plan would raise utility taxes for businesses but would be roughly balanced out by a small decrease in payroll taxes. The plan also aims to reward businesses ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, news, politics, San Francisco (all these topics)

Junk the Bunker Group urges Congress to ban bunker fuel in wake of S.F. oil spill		13 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 12:31 PM on 13 Nov 2007 In the wake of the catastrophic oil spill in San Francisco Bay, green group Friends of the Earth has started a petition drive urging Congress to ban the use of bunker fuel, which is gooey, chock full o' toxins, and slow to break down. The fuel, a byproduct of oil refining, is favored by the shipping industry because it's cheap; it's also "the dirtiest fuel on the planet," ...
Topics: energy, Friends of the Earth, news, oil, Russia, San Francisco, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Gnarly Sheen Ship crashes in San Francisco Bay, leaks 58,000 gallons of oil		08 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 12:46 PM on 08 Nov 2007 A container ship larger than the Titanic collided with San Francisco's Bay Bridge on Wednesday, tearing a 160-foot gash in its hull and spilling at least 58,000 gallons of oil. The leak nauseated some bystanders, closed down beaches and fishing, and could threaten the health of seals, birds, and other wildlife. The spilled substance, known as bunker oil, "tends to be rather heavy, a ...
Topics: California, news, oil, San Francisco, water pollution (all these topics)

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