From mgs23@pacbell.net Sat Aug 21 12:54:11 1999 Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:20:47 -0700 From: Misha To: SANET-mg Subject: Re: Current SA materials for wide general public Howdy, all-- John Lozier wrote: >I'll be playing my harp at a farm celebration tomorrow near Grantsville, >MD, and right now I'm wishing for a bright and timely kind of sustainable >ag info sheet that I could distribute to the general public. Brief, >up-beat, timely. Does anyone have such a thing? Or can I find something >to download from the web? > >My concept is to have one sheet, two sides, nice graphics, big print. Bite >sized items, but solid and sourced. Front side would have hot current >stuff like the GE, Codex Alimentarius, growth of organic market, etc. Back >side has background info that doesn't need to change in 3 weeks or 3 >months: compost, grazing, CSA's, etc. The key thing for me is to make it >encouraging, hopeful, not polemic. Pointed, but still respectful of the >diversity of views in a small community. I suggest the /Power Eater's Guide to Organic and Sustainable Food/, published by CIAS. Probably more as a model for other efforts, John, since about 2/5 of the info in it is local to Madison and Wisconsin. Printed on five different brightly colored cardstocks, 5 1/4 x 11, the /Power Eater's Guide/ is subtitled "Change the world and your foodshed with a fork, wallet, and brain." It provides a brief introduction to key concepts, including "Walk the Walk" (where locally [Madison] to purchase locally, organically, sustainably produced foods"), "Talk the Talk" (definitions of terms including "organic," "sustainable ag," "foodshed," etc.), "Be a Power Eater" (actions people can take to support locally, organically, sustainably grown foods), "See the Big Picture" (some brief, compelling facts on farmland loss), and "Know the Local Terrain" (key organizations doing sustag work in Wisconsin). It's too late for you to get some of these (if interested) for tomorrow, but for future reference, contact my colleague John Hendrickson for copies: jhendric@facstaff.wisc.edu Also, fyi, John H. and I are preparing some offspring publications--same tone, audience, and format--in a series we're calling "Meal Tickets." These will be issue oriented. We're working on two right now--one on energy use in the food system, and one on where the consumer food dollar goes. Our deadline for the first two is the third week of September. peace misha To Unsubscribe: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command "unsubscribe sanet-mg". If you receive the digest format, use the command "unsubscribe sanet-mg-digest". To Subscribe to Digest: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command "subscribe sanet-mg-digest". All messages to sanet-mg are archived at: http://www.sare.org/san/htdocs/hypermail