Showing posts with label community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label community. Show all posts
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Found it! In Grave Danger of Falling Food
The Permaculture Guy (named Fynn, right?) we met in New Zealand recommended this film highly. It isn't accessible in Netflix, but here's the great news: it's available online! "In Grave Danger of Falling Food," with Bill Mollison. 52:00, well worth watching.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Soup and Jane Addams
An old community organizing mantra goes something like this:
Give them food, and they will come.
This worked in social-work pioneer Jane Addams' time, as she promoted women's rights, children's well-being, and mediated labor disputes in Chicago at one of the nations first settlement houses. And now it's back in vogue, and again thriving at the Hull House:
Hull-House Kitchen: Rethinking Soup
Every Tuesday
Noon-1:30
Residents' Dining Hall
800 S. Halsted St., Chicago
312.413.5353
FREE
(donations from $.01 to $1,000,000 gladly accepted)
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
The Hull-House Kitchen will reopen on Tuesday, August 19th for Rethinking Soup from noon to 1:30. We hope you will come and find out what your fellow community members have been up to during the hiatus.
The day's program will include a special listening session with short audio-docs about food and other enticing subjects chosen with help from Third Coast International Audio Festival.
Gather every Tuesday to eat delicious, healthy soup and have fresh, organic conversation about many of the urgent social, cultural, economic, and environmental food issues facing us all.
Please join us in the historic Residents' Dining Hall, where Upton Sinclair, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B.DuBois, Gertrude Stein and other important social reformers met to share meals and ideals, debate one another, and conspire to change the world. Activists, farmers, doctors, economists, artists, and guest chefs will join us each week to present their ideas and projects.
Give them food, and they will come.
This worked in social-work pioneer Jane Addams' time, as she promoted women's rights, children's well-being, and mediated labor disputes in Chicago at one of the nations first settlement houses. And now it's back in vogue, and again thriving at the Hull House:
Hull-House Kitchen: Rethinking Soup
Every Tuesday
Noon-1:30
Residents' Dining Hall
800 S. Halsted St., Chicago
312.413.5353
FREE
(donations from $.01 to $1,000,000 gladly accepted)
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
The Hull-House Kitchen will reopen on Tuesday, August 19th for Rethinking Soup from noon to 1:30. We hope you will come and find out what your fellow community members have been up to during the hiatus.
The day's program will include a special listening session with short audio-docs about food and other enticing subjects chosen with help from Third Coast International Audio Festival.
Gather every Tuesday to eat delicious, healthy soup and have fresh, organic conversation about many of the urgent social, cultural, economic, and environmental food issues facing us all.
Please join us in the historic Residents' Dining Hall, where Upton Sinclair, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B.DuBois, Gertrude Stein and other important social reformers met to share meals and ideals, debate one another, and conspire to change the world. Activists, farmers, doctors, economists, artists, and guest chefs will join us each week to present their ideas and projects.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
They said it better (in 1995)
I just discovered a pretty fantastic little online resource for issues relating to urban greening, intentional living, all-things-sustainable... In Context (a quarterly journal of humane, sustainable culture) - they have a whole issue (from 1995, but still totally relevant) which includes an interview with David Orr, writings of Wes Jackson, a piece on worms treating sewage, CSA's, food systems, living machines, waste - to - food... the issue is well worth reading. Check it out.
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