Monday , Febuary 25, 2013
6:30-8:30 pm, FREE
Ayni Gallery Santa Barbara
The Food Commons model is a new economic
paradigm
and whole system approach for regional food.
The Food Commons envisions a re-creation of the local
and regional food systems that preceded the current global industrial
food systems, updated to reflect 21st-century advances in information
systems, communications, community-based organizational and economic
models, the science and practice of sustainable agriculture and the
changes in culture and demand.
Join Larry Yee, co-founder and Coordinating Director for the Food Commons
http://www.thefoodcommons.org/ as he talks about The Food
Commons a project dedicated to designing and developing both
local and national infrastructure within a whole systems approach and new
economic paradigm for local/regional food.
A Good Food Economy is a part of the economy of a country at peace with
its neighbors and its environment - the air, the land, the water and the
creatures living in, on and under it. It is the local embodiment of a
regional, national and international economy in which people have useful
work to do at fair wages, affordable access to housing, health care,
education and a secure retirement.
In 2008, Larry retired from a 32-year career with the University of
California where he was the director of the Ventura County UC Cooperative
Extension office and the UC Hansen Trust, which operated the UC Hansen
Agricultural Center.
The evening talk takes place on Monday , Febuary 25 , 6:30pm-8:30pm
pm, Ayni Gallery 216 State Street, Santa Barbara CA
93101 (lower State Street, across from the Amtrak Station (public parking
behind & around the corner on Helena St). The talk is free, no
reservations required. For more info: contact event organizer, Carla
Rosin
<crosart05@yahoo.com>,
805-816-8188.
Food Commons , a project dedicated to designing and developing both local
and national infrastructure within a whole systems approach and new
economic paradigm for local/regional food.
http://www.thefoodcommons.org/
The Food Commons has developed a model for actualizing the food
"revolution" in communities everywhere by creating the
physical, financial and organizational infrastructure necessary for
thriving regional food systems.
http://www.thefoodcommons.org/images/FoodCommons_2-0.pdf