ORGANICOLOGY: DAY 2

February 27th, 2009 by Annie

I know you’re lurking…reading and not commenting. That’s okay. This morning we heard from Paul Roberts, author of The End of Oil and his newest book, The End of Food. Well, neither one of his books is very positive so the room was rather glum hearing about the scale of change that needs to occur in our food system in order to reach sustainability. It’s all about how we frame the discussion about this needed change when we talk to consumers who have not yet made the leap to local, healthy and organic food. That framing is something I’ll put my mind to in order to reach more people, so I don’t really have much to say about that now. I will in the future, though.

Next up for me was a workshop about the contamination of organic seed and food. This should be of great concern to you, our owners, shoppers and colleagues. But there is hope, I assure you. More on this later. My lovely lunch is sitting in front of me and I am hungry!

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ORGANICOLOGY

February 26th, 2009 by Annie

Here I am at the Organicology conference in Portland. Today is a day-long workshop on sustainability for the food trade. This is important to our co-op since we’ve embarked on our mission to become a more sustainable business. This a way more than just trying to “green the Co-op.” We’ve chosen to use The Natural Step as our framework and have trained all of our staff in the theories that support it. I’ll keep you posted on what we’re learning here so check back. There might be some pearls of wisdom to share.

Tags: Organicology, sustainability, The Natural Step
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