This was cross-posted at Grow Food, Grow Hope on Friday, January 8, 2010. Few places around the country have the luxury of year-round warm weather, suitable for growing food into the winter months. The rest of us must grin and bear it, and we’re left to rely on food trucked in from warmer climes at [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Sustainability’
November 24, 2009
“Hunger” vs. “Food Security”
The Columbus Dispatch reported yesterday about the myriad challenges faced by the Ohio Department of Health in its current overhaul of the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) nutrition program. The overhaul hopes to increase access to fresh and nutritious foods for the 300,000 Ohioans who receive the WIC benefits, but in so doing may have made [...]
June 25, 2009
Ohio Gets Solar Boost
The Ohio House of Representatives passed some significant “green” legislation on Tuesday, implementing a pilot program which will install solar PV (photovoltaic) panels in 70 of the biggest school districts in Ohio. “Solar Schools Pilot Program Will Put Ohioans to Work” (6/23). As the headline mentions, the biggest selling point of this bill (HB 113) [...]
June 15, 2009
Ohio Fourth in the Country for Green Jobs
A story in Saturday’s Columbus Dispatch brought some good news to the end of an already good and productive week. A report published by the Pew Charitable Trusts foundation ranked Ohio 4th in the nation for new, green jobs, with more than 35,000 at the end of 2007. “Job push in clean energy pays off” [...]
June 10, 2009
Sustainable Agriculture at W.C.
Last night, Ohio Agriculture Director Robert Boggs and Senior Program Manager for Ohio Sustainable Agriculture Amalie Lipstreu addressed a crowd of almost 100 community members at the Kelly Center on the Wilmington College campus. The presentation, as I mentioned in the previous post, delt with the benefits of creating a strong, local food economy in [...]
June 9, 2009
Clinton County Fresh Network
Tonight I, along with local farmers, fellow VISTA volunteers and community members involved in the Grow Food, Grow Hope Garden Initiative, will be attending a dinner presentation at the college about the benefits of building a homegrown, locally sourced food economy. The speakers for the presentation will be Robert Boggs, Director of the Ohio Department [...]
