Commons Good: Stewardship and Starting Points
The Commons Good podcast is about stewardship and starting points for learning and acting together to secure intergenerational well-being and equity for all. It makes visible the practices and progress of community pacesetters, sparking dialogue about what it takes to create legacies of dignity and inclusion, and build the civic muscle needed to expand vital community conditions.
Commons Good: Stewardship and Starting Points
Ricardo Salvador + Paula Daniels: Food Systems For Thriving Together
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Commons Good Podcast
People’s foundation for physical and mental well-being starts with access to fresh air, clean water, and nutritious food. Meeting these basic needs allows us to be healthier today by avoiding hunger, exhaustion, disease, and injury. It also means we are more likely to thrive tomorrow by supporting our ability to withstand adversity.The mid-20TH century was a turning point in the American food system, ushering in a precipitous decline in farm populations. With the shift toward highly consolidated, vertically integrated, and industrially efficient agriculture came a rise in obesity, a loss of agricultural biodiversity, and a rise in nitrate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions due to concentrated methods of farming and animal rearing. Listen in as Ricardo Salvador, Union of Concerned Scientists and Paula Daniels, Center for Good Food Purchasing overview the building blocks of our food system. - What are the legacies of the food system we've inherited?- What is the current state of our food system?- What are the pivotal moves we can make in our food system for thriving together? Learn More: ThrivingTogether.US: https://thriving.us/building-blocks/food/Center for Good Food Purchasing https://goodfoodpurchasing.orgUnion of Concerned Scientists: https://www.ucsusa.org
