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Second Annual Childhood Obesity Bay Area Conference

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 […]

The National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference

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 […]

California Small Farm Conference

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 […]

How do we sustainably feed 8 billion people by 2025?

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, Farms, and Fracking in California: A Panel Discussion

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 […]

Biennial Childhood Obesity Conference

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 […]

Hack//Meat: Reimagine the Future of Meat

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 […]

Slow Money Farm Fest

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, […]

Richmond CLEAN Festival

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! 

The Corporatization and Commodification of Food

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, […]