Educasting Study Guide on Food, Sustainability, and Society
Online Resources
You can use this list to do further reading on the topics covered in this program.
Michael Pollan’s website.
Includes articles he has written
for the New York Times.
www.michaelpollan.com
Link
to webcast of Michael Pollan and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey in conversation
at University of California, Berkeley.
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=19147&p=1&ipp=15&category
Official
website of Eden Natural Certified Berkshire Pork.
www.betterpork.com
Website for Joel Salatin’s farm.
Includes links to books authored
by Salatin.
www.polyfacefarms.com:
Official
website of Niman Ranch.
www.nimanranch.com:
Official
website of the National Pork Board, funded by the Pork Checkoff.
www.pork.org
Temple
Grandin's website.
Includes many articles and references in Grandin’s
area of work with animals, handling facilities, human slaughter,
etc.
http://www.grandin.com/:
Hear another interview with Dr. Temple Grandin from National Public
Radio’s program Talk of the Nation, from January 20, 2006.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5165123
Video of Dr. Temple Grandin conducting a seminar on humane livestock
handling facilities for the University of California Davis Department
of Animal Science from February 13, 2007.
http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/Video/TempleGrandin/index.htm
An
interview with Dr. Temple Grandin.
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/01/nation_meat041001_riley.htm
Further reading about factory farm meat, antibiotic use, pollution,
etc.
http://thegreenguide.com/reports/product.mhtml?id=39&sec=3:
The Weston A. Price Foundation for wise traditions in food, farming,
and the healing arts.
http://www.westonaprice.org/splash_2.htm:
Website for Organic Grassfed Beef Coalition, headed by Angela Jackson-Pridie.
http://www.organicgrassfedbeef.org/:
Article by Angela Jackson-Pridie.
http://www.newfarm.org/depts/readermail/200506/0602_3.shtml
Women, Land, and Legacy group website.
http://www.womenlandandlegacy.com/index.htm
Iowa Women in Agriculture website.
http://www.iowawomeninag.org/
Women,
Food and Agriculture network website.
http://www.wfan.org
Read an article featuring Maria Moreira as an interviewee.
http://www.sare.org/publications/limited-resource/profile2.htm
USDA status report on immigrant, minority and women farmers.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/agoutlook/may1998/ao251d.pdf
NPR story, Female Farmers: A Growing Trend in America.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4132715
Women on US Farms, a research initiative through Pennsylvania State
University.
http://agwomen.aers.psu.edu/index.htm:
Explanation of Community Supported Agriculture.
http://www.localharvest.org/csa.jsp
USDA status report on immigrant, minority and women farmers.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/agoutlook/may1998/ao251d.pdf
National Immigrant Farming Initiative website.
http://www.immigrantfarming.org
Website of Julian Samora Research Institute.
http://www.jsri.msu.edu
U.S. Department
of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration website.
http://www.osha.gov
Employment
Development Department, a division of the California State Labor
and Workforce Development Agency.
http://www.edd.ca.gov
Read an article featuring Maria Moreira as an interviewee.
http://www.sare.org/publications/limited-resource/profile2.htm
New Entry Sustainable Farming Project of Tufts University.
http://nutrition.tufts.edu/research/nesfp
Community Supported Agriculture in the USDAP National Agricultural
Library.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/pubs/csa/csa.shtml
Chez Panisse Foundation
http://www.chezpanissefoundation.org
Center for Ecoliteracy; see in particular their program,
Rethinking School Lunch at
http://www.ecoliteracy.org/programs/rsl.html
http://www.ecoliteracy.org
Children’s Hospital and Research Center
Oakland
http://www.childrenshospitaloakland.org
Chef Ann Cooper’s website, Lunch Lessons:
Changing the Way We Feed Our Children.
http://www.lunchlessons.org
Interview with Chef Ann Cooper from The Nation.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060911/lappe
YouTube video of Chef Ann Cooper’s presentation
for Authors@Google about her book, Lunch Lessons: Changing the
Way We Feed Our Children.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JR7iVPv-xRg
Full Bloom Baking Company.
http://www.fullbloom.com/index.html
The Edible Schoolyard project.
http://www.edibleschoolyard.org
Food Change nonprofit; see in particular the SchoolFood Plus program
at http://www.foodchange.org/nutrition/schoolfood.html.
http://www.foodchange.org/:
Schools and Food Resource Guide.
http://www.baumforum.org/archive_additional-program_pgs/schoolfood_2_resources.htm
Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. See specifically their Division of
Adolescent and School Health page with publications on young people
and nutrition: http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/nutrition/publications.htm
http://www.cdc.gov
Review the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s
research list on childhood obesity.
http://www.rwjf.org/research/researchlist.jsp?ia=138
The Food Project in Massachusetts.
http://www.thefoodproject.org
Summary of Gillman obesity report cited above.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/08.24/99-obesity.html
Website for Joel Salatin’s farm. Includes
links to books authored by Salatin.
www.polyfacefarms.com:
Learn more about what regressive taxes are on the IRS’s
website for students.
http://www.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/servlet/IWT3L2ol
Read an article by Walter Robb featured in What is Enlightenment
magazine.
http://www.wie.org/j28/robb.asp
Whole Foods Market
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com
Biography of Robert Rodale (some say the founder
of the organic movement in the United States) from Seeds of Change.
Rodale founded
Organic Gardening magazine.
http://www.seedsofchange.com/cutting_edge/robert_rodale.asp
California Department of Food and Agricultures State Organic Program
website.
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/is/fveqc/organic.htm:
The National Organic Program website.
http://www.ams.usda.gov/NOP/indexNet.htm
Ecology Action, home of the biointensive farming method.
http://www.growbiointensive.org
Help with understanding the concept of food miles.
http://www.gdrc.org/uem/footprints/food-miles.html
The National Sustainable Agriculture
Information Service lists a variety of publications dealing with
food miles, sustainable production, and local food systems. The site also has a list of success stories
about communities that are reviving their local food systems.
http://attra.ncat.org/farm_energy/food_miles.html
Just Food website.
http://www.justfood.org/jf/index.html
Cypress Grove Chevre website.
http://www.cypressgrovechevre.com