[CPEO-BIF] Food Systems 101 on-line seminar July 29, 2010

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Food Systems 101: Learning to Create Healthier Communities and Local 
Economies

Sponsored by US EPA Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization

July 29, 2010, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, EDT

Since the inception of the brownfields program, communities, mayors and 
local officials, non-profit organizations, funders and private sector 
partners have recognized the opportunities of creating a community asset 
on a former brownfields property. Agricultural and local food examples 
include using cleaning or creating new community gardens, urban farms, 
greenhouses, as well as creating farmer's markets, supermarkets, even a 
food bank. In the last several years, the EPA Office of Brownfields and 
Land Revitalization, our State and Tribal partners, grantees and a range 
of community partners have been helping us to strengthen these efforts 
by providing technical support and assistance to communities interested 
in and engaged in urban agriculture and forging new partnerships with 
the broader planning, community economic development and public health 
community to identify how brownfields and land revitalization can 
contribute to expanding urban agricultural activities as well as link 
with growing food system planning efforts to improve community access to 
safe, affordable healthy food as one step toward creating healthier 
communities and local economies.

Learn more about food systems planning, economic development, and the 
public health dimension of local food so we continue to explore how 
brownfield and land revitalization can help communities forge local food 
connections.

For more information and to register, go to
http://www.clu-in.org/conf/tio/foodsys101/


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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