Greening for All
The Right to Access Healthy FoodBy Marcy Rein and Clifton Ross In a mild late-winter afternoon, fifth-graders at Verde Elementary School in North Richmond squat on soggy ground, poking beans into the...
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Reinventing Food Systems
By Marty Fujita The entire history of agriculture—humanity’s grandest enterprise—occurred during the last 10,000 years; a mere blink of an eye in geological terms. As hunter-gatherers, we were...
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Urban Food Co-op Tackles Economic Empowerment
By Dana Harvey The green jobs conversation most often centers on industrialized sectors that require millions of dollars in capital—from high-tech clean energy to biodiesel. However, the world’s basic...
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The Second Green Revolution
By Clifton Ross It may seem hard to believe that the process that brought the head of lettuce to your salad—and all the other delicious components of your organic meal, like the baked potato and the...
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Farmworkers—The Basis and Bottom of the Food Chain
By Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Christy Getz The recent events in Wisconsin have triggered a reawakening across the United States of a movement that acknowledges the importance of worker rights and of...
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San Francisco Chinatown Restaurant Workers Fight for Fair Employment
By Crystal Carter Li Shuang Li, 42, had worked at a restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown for seven years before she discovered that her boss was stealing her tips. At the time, Li was barely making...
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Undocumented Immigrants Stand up to Chipotle
By David Bacon In December 2010, 600 workers at the Chipotle fast food chain in Minnesota were fired. Their crime? Working. In the past two years, thousands of others have been fired for the same...
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Food Workers—Wages and Race
By Yvonne Yen Liu Mariano Lucas Domingo traveled north from his home in Guatemala in search of work to support his sick parent. He landed in Immokalee, Florida, the tomato capital of the United States,...
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Restaurants and Race
Discrimination and Disparity in the Food Service SectorBy Saru JayaramanWalk into any fine-dining restaurant in an American urban center and you will observe: white workers serving and bartending;...
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Web Special: Occupying the Future, Starting at the Roots
Occupied Urban Farmland in the Bay Area Highlights Privatization of Public Universities and Corporatization of Public TrustBy Diana Pei WuOn Earth Day—April 22, 2012—about 200 people, accompanied by...
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Greening for All
The Right to Access Healthy FoodBy Marcy Rein and Clifton Ross In a mild late-winter afternoon, fifth-graders at Verde Elementary School in North Richmond squat on soggy ground, poking beans into the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reinventing Food Systems
By Marty Fujita The entire history of agriculture—humanity’s grandest enterprise—occurred during the last 10,000 years; a mere blink of an eye in geological terms. As hunter-gatherers, we were...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Urban Food Co-op Tackles Economic Empowerment
By Dana Harvey The green jobs conversation most often centers on industrialized sectors that require millions of dollars in capital—from high-tech clean energy to biodiesel. However, the world’s basic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Second Green Revolution
By Clifton Ross It may seem hard to believe that the process that brought the head of lettuce to your salad—and all the other delicious components of your organic meal, like the baked potato and the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Farmworkers—The Basis and Bottom of the Food Chain
By Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Christy Getz The recent events in Wisconsin have triggered a reawakening across the United States of a movement that acknowledges the importance of worker rights and of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
San Francisco Chinatown Restaurant Workers Fight for Fair Employment
By Crystal Carter Li Shuang Li, 42, had worked at a restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown for seven years before she discovered that her boss was stealing her tips. At the time, Li was barely making...
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Undocumented Immigrants Stand up to Chipotle
By David Bacon In December 2010, 600 workers at the Chipotle fast food chain in Minnesota were fired. Their crime? Working. In the past two years, thousands of others have been fired for the same...
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Food Workers—Wages and Race
By Yvonne Yen Liu Mariano Lucas Domingo traveled north from his home in Guatemala in search of work to support his sick parent. He landed in Immokalee, Florida, the tomato capital of the United States,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Restaurants and Race
Discrimination and Disparity in the Food Service SectorBy Saru JayaramanWalk into any fine-dining restaurant in an American urban center and you will observe: white workers serving and bartending;...
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