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Access Federal Grants

Grants.gov provides access to the 26 grant-making agencies of the Federal government.

Recovery.gov is the official site of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) aka "The Stimulus Bill".

Upcoming funding opportunities.

Policy Watch

H.R. 875: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009

"To establish the Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services to protect the public health by preventing food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes."

Passage of this bill could effectively end the availability of commercially available organic produce. The bill has been referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and to the House Committee on Agriculture where it is pending review.

Read the full text of H.R. 875 and track its movement through the legislative process.

Events

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News & Media

Films / DVD's:
FRESH the movie - New thinking on what we’re eating. This documentary explores the ramifications of industrial agriculture and offers solutions to the challenge of modern food production and distribution.

PolyCultures: Food Where We Live
documents the social movement that has formed around local food systems, including the integration of diverse communities, both rural and urban, across Northeast Ohio.

Flow features interviews with scientists and activists that reveal a rapidly building crisis, and introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the global water grab, while begging the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?"

Blue Gold: World Water Wars. This award winning documentary examines the problems created by the privatization and commoditization of water.

The Corporation analyzes the dominant institution of our time, taking its status as a legal "person" to the question of, "What kind of person is it?"

The Future of Food provides an excellent overview of the key questions raised by consumers as they become aware of GM foods

Blog Posts

Joseph Zarr

Sunday March 22nd of Leadership Summit 2009 : Wrap-Up - Michael Shuman and Open Space 'Q & A'

(This post has been produced via a collaboration with Sam Rose. His notes can be seen here. Thank you Sam!)

Sunday welcomed Michael Shuman to our Leadership Summit. Michael is widely recognized for his work at Small-Mart, the authoring of The Small-Mart Revolution and Going Local, his work as Vice-President of the… Continue

Posted by Joseph Zarr on March 26, 2009 at 11:33pm — 1 Comment

Sudhir Kade Raghupathy

A model for optimal (local) food cooperatives - an innovative organizational form

Hello, and I thought I'd kick off my blog posts with a thank you to all the great folks who organized and attended the conference last weekend. I was enthused, educated, inspired, and illuminated. Kudos, Michael, Joseph, and others!

I wanted to start with an organizational form that might drive optimal synergy creation, sustainability outcomes, and equity building. It speaks to a unique orContinue

Posted by Sudhir Kade Raghupathy on March 26, 2009 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment

Jennifer

What an amazing weekend

To Michael Easterling, Andrew Heinrich, Joseph Zarr, and to all whom I had the pleasure of convening with around "green solutions" for our planet, I offer my congratulatory expression of sincere gratefulness and thankfulness!

The wealth of gifted hands, giving hearts, and awake minds, involved in what was evidenced to me, a highly charged atmosphere of empowerment for change, personally, felt like a weeks worth of education packed into two days. I'm certain I am not the only one filled-up with… Continue

Posted by Jennifer on March 24, 2009 at 12:17am — 2 Comments

Forum

Lisa-Jean Sylvia

Leadership Summit 2009 -- After Summit Action! 3 Replies

Started by Lisa-Jean Sylvia in Community Building. Last reply by Lisa-Jean Sylvia Apr 26.

Joseph Zarr

Michael Shuman on 'Obamanomics' 1 Reply

Started by Joseph Zarr in Economic Development. Last reply by Joseph Zarr Dec. 7, 2008.

 
 

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TheFoodSource.org

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