Roots of Change

The Corporatization and Commodification of Food
2013-08-13 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Billy Wilder Theater, UCLA, Los Angeles, United States
Modern agriculture has become increasingly dependent on corporate seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides, while the family farm is a fading myth. Frederick Kaufman, author of Bet The Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food, and Wenonah Hauter, author of Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America and executive director of Food and Water Watch, look into the agribusiness monopolies that are determining what we eat and how much it costs.

Richmond CLEAN Festival
2013-06-29 11:00 - 16:00 | Richmond Civic Center, United States
POWERED by our dream of local clean energy, the Richmond CLEAN Festival will be a fun-filled day of music, games, performances, clean energy technology demonstrations and more!

Slow Money Farm Fest
2013-06-22 15:00 - 20:00 | Sunol Ag Park, 505 Paloma Way, Sunol, CA 94586, United States
Slow Money Northern California celebrates another Farm Fest at Sunol Ag Park in Sunol, East Bay. Learn more about how to support sustainable food systems, meet the Slow Money movers, and have lots of fun networking with entrepreneurs, investors and our local community!

Hack//Meat: Reimagine the Future of Meat
2013-06-21 18:00 - 2013-06-23 18:45 | Palo Alto, CA, United States
Food+Tech Connect, in partnership with the GRACE Communications Foundation and Applegate, is bringing together technologists, entrepreneurs, creatives, policy experts, non-profit leaders and industry executives to develop technologies and tools that help create a better future for meat.
Over the course of the weekend, teams will work with design-thinking facilitators and industry “steakholders” to rapidly prototype innovative solutions to the way meat is produced, processed, distributed, sold and consumed.

Biennial Childhood Obesity Conference
2013-06-18 08:00 - 2013-06-20 12:30 | Long Beach, CA, United States
The California Department of Public Health, California Department of Education, the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Center for Weight and Health, The California Endowment, and Kaiser Permanente are pleased to announce the 2013 Childhood Obesity Conference scheduled for June 18-20, at the Long Beach Convention Center, California. Now in its 7th year, the biennial Childhood Obesity Conference is the nation's largest, most influential collaboration of professionals dedicated to combating pediatric obesity. Nearly 2,000 attendees from across the country are expected to attend in 2013. The Conference will showcase the latest research, evidence-based best practices, and policy/environmental change strategies.

Food, Farms, and Fracking in California: A Panel Discussion
2013-06-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Port Commission Hearing Room, Ferry Building, San Francisco, United States
What will happen to the food supply if our farmland is fracked?
Panelists
Mark Nechodom, Director of the California Department of Conservation
Kassie Siegel, Director of Climate Law Institute at the Center for Biological Diversity
Jim Leap, organic farmer, former farm manager at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, and member of Aromas Cares for the Environment.
Moderator: freelance journalist Twilight Greenaway, former food editor a tGrist.org

Please join us after the panel for a reception and resource fair. Enjoy farmers market refreshments sponsored by CUESA and Bi-Rite Market, and connect with organizations working to educate the public about the risks associated with fracking, including Food and Water Watch, 350 SF, Environmental Working Group, Center for Biological Diversity, and Global Exchange.

How do we sustainably feed 8 billion people by 2025?
2013-04-09 09:00 - 17:00 | Live Webcast, United States
On April 9, 2013, producers, geo-politicists, ethicists, economists, humanists and others will address the challenges of protecting our natural resource base (water, soil, air, plants and animals) upon which our food depends, the risks we face if we do not, and potential solutions for California and the world. We invite you to view these discussions via webcast.

Join the Conversation
#food2025

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California Small Farm Conference
2013-03-10 07:00 - 2013-03-12 12:30 | Fresno, CA, United States
The California Small Farm Conference is the state's premier gathering of small farmers, agricultural students, farmers’ market managers and others involved in the small farm industry. The three day educational conference includes day-long short courses and on-farm tours; focused workshops; engaging keynote addresses and numerous networking opportunities.

The National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference
2013-03-03 08:30 - 2013-03-05 09:30 | Washington, D.C, United States
The National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference draws anti-hunger and anti-poverty advocates; federal, state and local government officials; child advocates; representatives of food banks and food rescue organizations; and nutrition and anti-obesity groups, for three days of training, networking and Capitol Hill advocacy.

Second Annual Childhood Obesity Bay Area Conference
2013-02-23 10:00 - 16:30 | San Francisco, CA, United States
Slow Food San Francisco invites you to join for its second annual Childhood Obesity Bay Area Conference on February 23rd, 2013 at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. The goal of this year’s conference is to gain fresh insights on the various factors contributing to childhood obesity, and to learn about the many exciting solutions already underway to address it.

The conference will take place on February 23, 2013 at the Commonwealth Club at 595 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105, from 10 am – 4:30 pm. Tickets are $100, with discounted teacher and student tickets available.

Farming for the Future: California Climate & Agriculture Summit
2013-02-21 08:00 - 18:30 | Davis, CA, United States
Farming for the Future:
California Climate & Agriculture Summit

February 21, 2013 • 8:00am — 6:30pm
UC Davis Conference Center

Space is limited. Register now at http://bit.ly/UFE7DP

The Summit includes presentations, a poster session, wine & cheese reception and an optional farm tour
on Feb. 20th. It brings together farmers and ranchers, agency staff, farm advisors, policymakers and advocates concerned with climate change challenges and opportunities for California agriculture.

33rd Annual EcoFarm Conference
2013-01-23 20:00 - 2013-01-26 16:00 | Pacific Grove, CA, United States
More info to come….

Strengthening Agriculture
2012-12-03 09:00 - 2012-12-05 17:00 | Portland, Oregon, United States
The Western SARE Administrative Council is organizing this conference in response to the participants in our Subregional Conferences listing gaps and barriers in agriculture infrastructure as a high need to be addressed in our region for continued economic viability in the 21st Century.

December 3 – 5, 2012
Embassy Suites, Airport
7900 NE 82nd Avenue
Portland, Oregon

Confirmed Keynote Speakers and Panelists:

Fred Kirschenmann, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Ken Meter, Crossroads Resource Center

Karl Kupers, Shepherd's Grain

Theresa Marquez, Organic Valley

Gail Feenstra, UC SAREP

Steve Balling, Del Monte

Stacy Davies, Country Natural Beef

Lisa Sedlar, New Seasons Market

Quivira Coalition Annual Conference
2012-11-13 09:00 - 2012-11-16 17:00 | Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
11TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN 2012!
November 14-16, Albuquerque, New Mexico
How to Feed Nine Billion People From the Ground Up:
Soil, Seeds, Water, Plants, Livestock, Forests, Organics, and People
Global human population is projected to reach nine billion by 2050, which means food production will need to expand by 70% to keep up. Fulfilling this demand will place unprecedented pressure on ecosystems, including the planet's grasslands, especially as competition grows for scarce natural resources. How to meet this daunting challenge while ensuring the health of land, water, wildlife and people will be one of the great tasks of the 21st century. In this conference, we will explore a variety of innovative practices that are already successfully intensifying food production while preserving, maintaining, and restoring the natural world. Speakers will share their hands-on experience and ideas for feeding all life – from the ground up.

For more information on speakers, registration and questions please click on the link below.

2012 Russian River Watershed Symposium
2012-11-02 08:30 - 16:30 | Cloverdale, CA, United States
The Russian River Watershed Symposium is the only local conference focused on watershed management, agriculture, and restoration science for the Russian River Watershed.

The symposium will bring together landowners, agricultural producers, local agencies, non-profits, students, and scientists for shared insight on the diverse challenges of our watershed.

Sustainability, Sustenance and Social Change: Anna Lapp
2012-11-01 18:00 - 20:00 | San Francisco, CA, United States
Over the past decade, best-selling author Anna Lappé – respected for her work on food politics, sustainability, and social change – has travelled the world meeting with farmers, scientists and citizen activists who are creating alternatives to industrial agriculture. Join the San Francisco Waldorf School for an informative evening with Anna as she debunks myths about sustainable food and farming, discusses the crisis of industrial agriculture (including genetically modified organisms, GMOs) and shares the story of solutions – local, state and national policies as well as community-based efforts that are fostering sustainable and fair food systems across the country.

Anna's talk will be followed by the screening of short documentary and animated films called Food MythBusters: The Real Story About What We Eat.

Sustainability, Sustenance and Social Change:
How Sustainable Food and Farming Can Nourish the World and Transform Community

Thursday, November 1st, 2012
6:00 pm reception with sustainable food and agricultural co-sponsoring organizations
7:00 pm Lecture and Q&A, book signing to follow

Please click on the link below to RSVP

Food Day 2012
2012-10-24 15:56 | California, United States
Food Day is a nationwide celebration and a movement toward more healthy, affordable, and sustainable food. Food Day, created by CSPI, is powered by a diverse coalition of food movement leaders, organizations, and people from all walks of life. Food Day takes place annually on October 24 to address issues as varied as health and nutrition, hunger, agricultural policy, animal welfare, and farm worker justice

Seedstock Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Conference
2012-10-24 08:30 - 18:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Seedstock Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Conference at UCLA Anderson School of Management

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 from 8:30 AM to 6:30 PM (PDT)

Los Angeles, CA

The Seedstock Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Conference will highlight and focus on the economic opportunities as well as the environmental and societal benefits of embracing, developing and investing in sustainable agriculture practices, technologies and startup companies.

Labeling Genetically Engineered Food
2012-10-17 18:30 - 20:00 | San Francisco, CA, United States
Join a timely and highly relevant conversation between Michael Dimock, President of Roots of Change, and Peggy Duvette, Executive Director of WiserEarth, about Proposition 37, a Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Engineered Food Initiative, which is on the November 6, 2012 ballot in California as an initiated state statute.

DATE: Wednesday Oct 17th 6:30pm – 8pm

LOCATION: TBA (San Francisco)

Free of charge. RSVP

Snacks and drink will be served

If Proposition 37 is approved by voters, it will:

Require labeling on raw or processed food offered for sale to consumers if the food is made from plants or animals with genetic material changed in specified ways.

Prohibit labeling or advertising such food as "natural."

Exempt from this requirement foods that are "certified organic; unintentionally produced with genetically engineered material; made from animals fed or injected with genetically engineered material but not genetically engineered themselves; processed with or containing only small amounts of genetically engineered ingredients; administered for treatment of medical conditions; sold for immediate consumption such as in a restaurant; or alcoholic beverages."

Participants are invited to share their thoughts on the topic and ideas on how to insure the passage of Proposition 37.

Sustainable Food and Wine Production: CA
2012-10-15 13:30 - 15:30 | Santa Rosa, CA, United States
The hearing, titled Sustainable Food and Wine Production: California’s Future, will study the impact of state regulations on the sustainable production of local food and wine, a large and growing sector of California’s economy.

The hearing will consist of three panel discussions with legislators, invited stakeholders andpolicymakers discussing the impacts of state law and regulations on the sustainable production of food and wine. A public comment period will also be provided towards the end of the hearing.

WHEN:

Monday, October 15th, 2012 from 1:30-3:30 p.m.

WHERE:

Santa Rosa City Hall, Council Chambers, 100 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, CA

2012 NorCal Permaculture Convergence: Building Bioregional Resiliency
2012-10-12 16:00 - 2012-10-14 17:30 | Castro Valley, CA, United States
The Northern California Permaculture Convergence (formerly the Bay Area Regional Permaculture Convergence) is an annual event which brings together permaculture designers, sustainability enthusiasts, and communities in Northern California, the West Coast, and beyond for a weekend of intensive focus on a common goal: to design sustainable habitats, in accordance with nature, for humans, plants, animals, our greater bioregion, and the Earth at large.

Friday, October 12, 2012 at 4:00 PM – Sunday, October 14, 2012 at 5:30 PM (PDT)

Castro Valley, CA

Hoes Down Harvest Festival
2012-10-06 11:00 - 23:00 | Guinda, CA (Yolo County), United States
The Hoes Down is a celebration of the end of the harvest season. After the long summer, farmers need to kick off their boots, kick up their heels, dance, and have a grand time with their family. The Hoes Down is a fundraiser for over 30 local and regional community organizations.

Right To Know March
2012-10-06 10:00 - 16:00 | San Francisco, CA, United States
San Francisco Rally and March down Market St. in support of Yes on Prop 37 – Mandatory Labeling of GMO's. We believe all Californians have a Right to Know what's in our Food and we need to make sure people hear this message loud and clear!

This will also be the "Hub Event" for "Take A Pledge" events happening all over the state on the 6th.
October 6 2012
10am Rally at Civic Center UN Plaza (Civic Center BART Station)
11am March down Market Street

12-4pm – Street Canvassing along Embarcadero
(there will be Fleet Week, America's Cup, Ferry Building Farmers Market and the launch of a new Target Store – our goal is to distribute information about Prop 37 to all of these people!)
Come out and show your support for Prop 37 and our right to know what's in our food!
Co-Sponsored By:
CaRightToKnow.org
Sustainable Living Roadshow
Bio-Safety Alliance
Gandhi Earth Walk

WHEN

October 06, 2012 at 10am – 4pm

WHERE

San Francisco Civic Center UN Plaza
1150 Market St
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

Genetically Engineered Food - To Label or Not?
2012-10-03 18:30 - 20:30 | San Francisco, CA, United States
Californians will decide in November whether or not food that includes genetically engineered ingredients must have labels highlighting that fact. Join us for a debate on the proposition, which was placed on the state ballot by voter signature. Stacy Malkan, campaign media director of California Right to Know, will argue in support of the proposition and Brandon Castillo, campaign spokesperson, No on Proposition 37, will argue against it.

SPUR Urban Center
654 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105-4015

Eat Real Festival
2012-09-21 13:00 - 2012-09-23 17:00 | Oakland, CA, United States
From September 21-23rd, Eat Real is transforming Jack London Square into one epic food festival. The Eat Real Festival celebrates all things tasty, fresh, and handmade with a focus on street food, local wines, handcrafted beers, and traditional food craft – all featuring sustainable, local ingredients. And no dish costs more than $5.

Friday

1 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Saturday

10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Sunday

10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m

Free entry. All transactions cash only.

NEW Food Systems Course at CAL POLY
2012-07-29 09:00 - 2012-08-17 17:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, United States
This summer, the Center for Sustainability will be co-hosting a new offering through Cal Poly Continuing Education: California AGRI-FOOD and FIBER SYSTEMS. This intensive and comprehensive three-week course will provide an excellent introduction to essential aspects of how food and fiber is cultivated and circulated through our state. Agronomic, economic, social and political dimensions will be covered, including production and distribution. Hands-on skills will be taught.

The course will be held July 29 – August 17 at the beautiful Swanton Pacific Ranch near Santa Cruz, with field trips and visits to area farms and instructional units on the Cal Poly SLO campus. The course will be taught by an interdisciplinary team of instructors from the New Roots Institute and Cal Poly faculty and staff. Students will earn six units of Cal Poly credit for successful completion of the course.

More information can be found at:

http://www.continuing-ed.calpoly.edu/academic/index.html

http://cfs.calpoly.edu/programs/continuing_ed.html

To register, please go to:

http://calpoly.augusoft.net/index.cfm?method=ClassInfo.ClassInformation&int_class_id=4583&int_category_id=1&int_sub_category_id=74&int_catalog_id=0

Winters Farm to School Bastille Day Feast
2012-07-14 11:30 - 15:00 | Winters, CA, United States
A Bastille Day Feast, celebrating local food and flavors in the French style will be served to 175 people seated at a single long, white tablecloth- covered table set between the towering, 150-year old olive trees at the historic Wolfskill Ranch. The Wolfskill USDA National Clonal Germplasm Repository is housed here, with a collection of thousands of varieties of grapes, olives, figs, kiwis, stone fruits and more, and its Director, Dr. John Preece will be giving tours of the property prior to lunch. There will also be an auction of one-of-a-kind food and wine related items.

Local lamb from Rominger Ranch is the centerpiece of the meal, and local wines will be poured throughout.

The event is a fundraiser for the Winters Farm to School program whose mission is to help the Student Nutrition Services purchase and serve fresh, local food for school lunch.

Bastille Day Feast
Saturday, July 14, 2012

Wolfskill Ranch 4334 Putah Creek Road – Winters, Ca

Gathering Time: 11:30 A.M.
Tour Of Historic Wolfskill Ranch: 11:45 A.M.
Aperitif: 12:30 P.M.
Bastille Day Feast: 1:00 P.M. To 3:00 P.M.

All participants bring their own tableware – salad, dinner and dessert plates, knives, forks, and spoons, as well as cloth napkins. Wine glasses will be provided.

*Advanced tickets required

Please click on more info below for full menu and ticket prices.

Healthy Parks, Healthy People
2012-06-23 11:00 - 16:00 | Fremont, CA, United States
Come to the second annual Healthy Parks Healthy People Festival Saturday, June 23, 2012, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Celebrate National Get Outdoors Day at Quarry Lakes Regional Recreation Area in Fremont!

The Farm Bill: Why You Should Care
2012-06-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Healdsburg, CA, United States
What Does the Farm Bill Have to Do with Me and Why Do I Need to Know about It?

Congress is busy hashing out the details for the 2012 Farm Bill which will have important implications for food and agriculture for the next five years. This is an opportunity for those committed to good, clean and fair food for all to make changes in our food system—by participating in the Food Bill debate and by actively supporting local food. A panel of policy activists will tell us how.

Join Slow Food Sonoma for a stimulating afternoon of conversation, good food, and a book signing! Panel speakers include:

Dan Imhoff: The Farm Bill: Why Federal Policy Matters to All of Us
Michael Dimock: The Farm Bill: Can We Get a Seat at the Table?
David Katz: Local Food Politics: From the Farm Bill to the Dinner Table

Sunday, June 3, 4-6 pm
Bishop's Ranch, Swing Pavilion
5297 Westside Road, Healdsburg

This event is free but please RSVP to Linda at lmcsweyn@aol.com

Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program (CCROPP) Open House
2012-05-22 16:00 | Fresno, CA, United States
You’re Invited

to our Open House

Save the Date!

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Join us for food, fun, networking and prizes!

New Office Address:

2110 Tulare Street, Fresno, 93721

Main Office Line:(559) 498-0870

We’re located on the southeast corner of Tulare Street and

Van Ness Avenue in the Rowell Building.

The Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program (CCROPP) is a program of the Public Health Institute and is funded by: The California Endowment, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The James Irvine Foundation.
