NEWS: Active Living, Roller Derby Style
The #1 Roller Derby Team Gotham Girls is going to join us April 16 at the Youth Forum & Expo. You can check them out this Sunday:
This is their 2008 Season Highlights Video. Amazing. Very tough.
Add comment March 26, 2009
EVENTS: The Trouble with Tomatoes
A Discussion of Workers’ Rights and Environmental Justice
March 25, 2009
The Parlor at the NYU School of Social Work, 1 Washington Square North
7:00pm
Come join Sustainable Silver and Oxfam America at NYU on the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire as we follow a tomato from the fields it’s grown in to the salad on our plates. We’ll be screening two short films, Coalition of Immokalee Workers vs. Taco Bell about a group of Florida tomato pickers’ struggle for acceptable working conditions, and Shame on You, a youth-made documentary about environmental justice in the Bronx. We’ll then be joined for a panel discussion with two of the producers of Shame on You, New York City food sovereignty activist Sarah Pappas, and NYU’s own Anna Smukowski of Oxfam. Delicious and sustainable appetizers will be served.
Add comment March 24, 2009
REBLOG: Vegetable garden at the White House!
Have you seen the great news?? (from New York Times)
WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of the South Lawn on Friday to plant a vegetable garden, the first at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II. There will be no beets — the president does not like them — but arugula will make the cut.
While the organic garden will provide food for the first family’s meals and formal dinners, its most important role, Mrs. Obama said, will be to educate children about healthful, locally grown fruit and vegetables at a time when obesity and diabetes have become a national concern.
“My hope,” the first lady said in an interview in her East Wing office, “is that through children, they will begin to educate their families and that will, in turn, begin to educate our communities.”
Sam Kass, an assistant White House chef, left, and Dale Haney, the White House gardener, at the site of the new vegetable garden on the South Lawn (Photo: NYT).
Add comment March 20, 2009
SPROUTS #1: HealthCorps photo project
Thanks to Lauren Abramowitz for participating in the Media Working Group / Youth Planning Team’s first photo project! Some of her pictures, from a Health Corps yoga session, can be found on the SPROUTS! flickr page.
Add comment March 16, 2009
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