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From Fast Food Nation to Pro Food Ventures

Rob Smart | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Farms, Retail, Growing Power, The Jungle, Farmers, Food Retail, Will Allen, Upton Sinclair, Business, Fast Food Nation, Innovation, Usda, Slow Money, Michael Pollan, Pro Food, Food Inc., Industrial Food, Sustainable, Organic, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Local, Eric Schlosser, Pro, Investments, Triple Bottom Line, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Business News
Rob Smart

Early pioneers of the sustainable food movement, with dirt on their hands, lessons learned and progress made, have played a critical role in blazing trails for new ventures.

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Fresh's Director and Producer, Ana Joanes, Explains the Difficulty of Filming a Documentary and What Sustainability Means

Louise McCready | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Michael Moore, Fresh, Agriculture, Joel Salatin, Food, Sustainability, Will Allen, Ana Joanes, Food Tag, Green News
Louise McCready

Ana Joanes: When confronted with such large and complex problems, it's hard to see the meaning of small, individual actions. I embarked on the making of Fresh to recapture a sense of agency.

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Street Farmer Genius: Will Allen And Future Of the Good-Food Movement

nytimes.com | ELIZABETH ROYTE | Posted 08.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Will Allen Farmer, Will Allen, Good Food Movement, Local Food, Urban Farming, Farmers, Green News

Like others in the so-called good-food movement, Allen, who is 60, asserts that our industrial food system is depleting soil, poisoning water, gobblin...

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The Revolution Will Not Be (Petrochemically) Fertilized

Kerry Trueman | Posted 08.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Endocrine Disruptors, Slow Food, Woodbridge Winery, Nicholas Kristof, Will Allen, Stephen Colbert, Roger Doiron, Josh Viertel, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Growing tomatoes has replaced throwing tomatoes as a form of protest; millions of Americans are looking to opt out of our toxic food chain by trying to grow some of their own food this year.

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Beyond Hippies And Treehuggers: The Urban Farming Revolution

CNN | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Produce, Soil, Atlanta, Organic Food, Urban Farming, Community Gardens, Will Allen, HABESHA Gardens, Gardening, Fresh Produce, Plot, Green Living, Green News

On a plot of soil, nestled against the backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a group of residents are turning a lack of access to fres...

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FRESH Director Ana Joanes Blazes A Trail To Greener Pastures

Kerry Trueman | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Dr. Marion Nestle, Monsanto, Michelle Obama, Michael Pollan, Food Inc., Fresh, Will Allen, Organic, Ana Joanes, Barack Obama, Green News
Kerry Trueman

FRESH, which premieres this week in New York, Boston and DC, "celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system."

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The Politician Who's Ready to Reclaim Our Food Chain Now

Kerry Trueman | Posted 03.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Michael Pollan, Growing Power, Mayor Bloomberg, Foodshed, Sustainability, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Will Allen, New York City, Food Deserts, Environment, Food, Green Living, Green News
Kerry Trueman

While Obama and Tom Vilsack have given lip service to the merits of Michael Pollan's proposals, our bold Manhattan borough president has been busy actively working to implement them.

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Urban Farmer Among 'Genius Grant' Winners

Chicago Sun-Times | Kara Spak | Posted 10.24.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Macarthur Foundation, Will Allen, Genius Grant, Chicago Agriculture, Macarthur Foundation Grants, Macarthur Grant, MacArthur Genius Grant, Chicago News

Will Allen started a farm in a city, hired teenagers to tend the crops and now distributes the produce to some of the poorest people and priciest rest...

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