GrowinG Together Session 2 – Going Deeper Resources

Food Footprint

• What’s Your Food Footprint?
• Food eco-footprint
• Failing to go the distance: what’s the beef with food miles? (is local always better? What choices can we make to impact climate change?)
• What’s the real carbon footprint of your food? (Interesting bit about local apple vs imported)
• Cows, Carbon and Climate (Joel Salatin) (15 min)
• Food and the Ecological Footprint (Global Footprint Network)
• Eating Our Way Out of Climate Change (Sara Bridle)
• Food and Climate Change (S.B. Cambridge)

Food Waste

• Copia: Organization for food waste
• Lovin’ Spoonfuls: Organization
• Food Waste causes Climate Change. Here’s how we stop it. (Lots of detail on food waste)
• Food waste is the world’s dumbest problem
• Why does almost half of America’s food go to waste?

Food Justice

• OxFam: Organization and advocacy
• Soul Fire Farm: Raise the Roof for Food Justice Inspiration & Justice
• Food Justice: Economics, Ethics, Access Long form video 1 hour 24 min. Univ of Cal.
• Farming While Black: African Diasporic Wisdom for Farming and Food Justice – Leah Penniman, Keynote Speaker, Harvard Divinity School
• Malik Yakini – Food, Race and Justice | Bioneers (Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, exec. Director) This would be uncomfortable for some. Might be too political, maybe not.  Also has a TED talk.
• LaDonna Redmond – The Color of Sustainability | Bioneeers
• Fair Food Programme (Organization)
• Malik Yakini – Working in communities as partners, not missionaries
• Farming While Black: Soul Fire’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman

Food Justice Documentaries

• Forks Over Knives
• Rooted
• Dolores
• Gather

Food Systems

• Agnes Kalibata’s Message on Building Sustainable Food Systems
• Our Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum | Hot Mess
• Sustainable Food Trust – Organization, advocacy
• Sustainability Institute
• Exploring Food Sustainability | The Sustainability Institute
• Sustainable Diet e-learning series: UN CC 2 hour course with certificate (Intro Video)
• Why do we need to change our food system? (UN)
• Michael Pollan: What food systems are, and why they are important
• How can we change our food systems? Integrated Food Policy
• How can we change our food systems? Moving from low cost to true cost
• Exploring food sustainability
• RAFI – USA Organization
• National Young Farmers Coalition – Organization

Regenerative Agriculture

• org Food, Agriculture and Land Use (Address waste & diets, Protect Ecosystems, Shift Agriculture Practices)
• Agroecology – the next evolution in food systems
• Agroecology explained to children….parents can watch
• Unbroken Ground | A New Old Way to Grow Food (Patagonia short film, 25 min)
• How Regenerative Farming Can Help Combat the Climate Crisis | NowThis Earth

Biodiversity

• The Lexicon of Sustainability | PBS (Seed Sovreignty)
• Simran Sethi: We’re Losing Food Biodiversity
• Slow Food Ark of Taste

Food & Faith

• Norman Wirzba on a Theology of Eating
• Norman Wirzba video
• Food & Faith Podcast – Conversations from the soil and around the table
• Food, Hospitality, and the Gift of Eating Together – Norman Wirzba, For the Life of the World Podcast, Yale University
• Food & Faith: A Theology of Eating by Norman Wirzba
• Soil & Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith  by Fred Bahnson
• Life Around the Table | Eating Together Faithfully: Framework for Conversation 

Food Justice in Community

• ALMA Backyard Farms
• First Nations Kitchen
• Church of the Redeemer, Lorain, OH
• Anathoth Community Garden and Farm
• Peace Garden Project
• Detroit Black Community Food Security Network