Monthly Archives: March 2010

The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming

I’m happy to announce that as of March 1st, I officially became the Co-Founder & Director of The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming.  The Institute is part of Glynwood, based in Cold Spring, NY.  I’ll still be living and working from New York City, but I also have an office at Glynwood, a 225-acre farm on some of the most gorgeous land in the Hudson Valley.  We officially launch toward the end of April – we’re hoping April 20th will be the date – it’ll depend on when the website can launch.

As part of the Institute, we have an Innovation Program, where we’ll be supporting Innovators in the sustainable food and farming field – the first Innovators are Anna Lappe, who’s Diet for a Hot Planet is out now, and myself.

I’ve pasted a one pager below and will make sure to put up the press release for the launch when we get it finalized.  And there might even be a Glynwood blog sooner than later, where I can also keep you up to date with what we’re doing.  Stay tuned!

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The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming

Mission: To address critical issues in food and farming by supporting the work of existing and emerging leaders and leveraging their collective creative power to develop and implement innovative marketing and communications strategies for solution-based projects.

The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming is an incubator for ideas and action, a “creative action tank” that develops and implements realistic solutions to critical issues within the food system. The Institute collaborates and networks with like-minded groups to elevate the sustainable food and farming movement into mainstream awareness as well as to provide tools and resources to help individuals and groups working on projects in food and farming.

The goals of The Glynwood Institute are to:

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Dan Barber’s affair with a fish

Dan Barber’s talk at the TED conference this year was one of the best of the event – brilliant and a must see!

Dan Barber: How I Fell in Love with a Fish

A Month without Monsanto

April Davila decided she wanted to go one month without consuming any Monsanto products, and it’s turning out to be more difficult than she realized.  Follow her this month as she tries to find something to consume….

MonthWithoutMonsanto.com