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How We Can Grow Community Food Solutions

Food systems can be a very powerful tool for resilience.
September 3, 2010  |  
 
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Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from the The Post Carbon Reader, which features essays by some of the world’s most provocative thinkers on the key issues shaping our new century, from renewable energy and urban agriculture to social justice and community resilience. This insightful collection takes a hard-nosed look at the interconnected threats of our global sustainability quandary and presents some of the most promising responses.

Food systems can be a very powerful tool for resilience.  In a revolutionary way, you can completely transform things without people realizing what's happening--they are aware, but it just makes intuitive sense this way.  It's also not about just going out and fighting the proverbial "man," or continuing an academic dialogue about what could happen or should happen; you don't have time for this because you've got a lot to do.

So instead of having people just being oppositional and trying to get someone else to make the changes, you have people who are assets to their community, who are making the transformation happen themselves (but being oppositional when they need to be).

 

 

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Erika Allen is Chicago Projects Manager for Growing Power, a nationally acclaimed non-profit organization and land trust providing equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe, and affordable food, especially in disadvantaged communities.
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