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Tom Morello Wins Humanitarian Award, Addresses N.W.A Rock Hall Controversy

May 17, 2016: Rolling Stone Tom Morello’s fervor for a just planet is the hallmark of his music, earning him a place as one of popular culture’s loudest social consciences. Monday night, the Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, and the Nightwatchman guitarist received the Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award from WhyHunger?, an organization dedicated to eliminating famine and poverty across the globe. Morello joined fellow honoree Kenny Loggins for a ceremony at New York City waterfront venue The Lighthouse. “Poverty and hunger are not these facts that just came with the universe,” Morello told Rolling Stone before taking the stage to accept the honor. “They’re man-made, and they’re a crime. I feel that WhyHunger? are crime fighters of the highest order, and it’s my pleasure to be affiliated with them.” More

Gleaning is the Maine thing

Northeast Share – The Gleaning Initiative (GI), a partnership between Healthy Acadia and University of Maine Cooperative Extension, works to serve farms and food security organizations by catalyzing mutually beneficial relationships around the distribution of surplus food to those in need as a sustainable food system practice. During the project GI recovered 60,000 pounds of produce (a 33 percent increase from 2013), and distributed it to 15 food security organizations. GI also partnered with 30 farms and 100 volunteers and worked to support local farms with marketing, transportation and labor. More

An All-Volunteer Squad Of Farmers Is Turning Florida Lawns Into Food

May 15, 2016 – NPR:    In Florida, homeowners have a propensity for landscaping. They take great pride in the green carpet of grass in front of their homes. But one Florida man is working on a project that’s turning his neighbors’ lawns into working farms. Chris Castro has an obsession — turning the perfectly manicured lawns in his Orlando neighborhood into mini-farms. “The amount of interest in Orlando is incredibly surprising,” Castro says. More

Environmental Journal: R.I.’s first food strategist sees herself as a conductor

5/15/2016 – Providence Journal:   In the space of a single sentence, Sue AnderBois, the first-ever director of food strategy for Rhode Island, compared herself to a train conductor and then to WD-40.
That’s not as confusing as it may sound. As she told it — with palpable energy and at breathless pace — Rhode Island already has an incredible array of local farms, food producers, markets and restaurants. She sees herself as the person to help all the pieces of the state’s food system coordinate better, sort of like a train conductor, and working more smoothly, like, well, WD-40. “Rhode Island has all these different assets and it’s my job to make them all work together,” she said. “The idea is to look at the whole thing and come up with recommendations, from ground to waste.”
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Feed the Future

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There is broad consensus that reducing global poverty and hunger requires accelerating growth in the agriculture sector. Recent studies suggest that every 1 percent increase in agricultural income per capita reduces the number of people living in extreme poverty by between 0.6 and 1.8 percent. Feed the Future strives to increase agricultural production and the incomes of both men and women in rural areas who rely on agriculture for their livelihoods. Investments in inclusive agriculture-led growth encompass improving agricultural productivity, expanding markets and trade, and increasing the economic resilience of vulnerable rural communities. Feed the Future seeks to unleash the proven potential of small-scale agricultural producers to deliver results on a large scale.

Beacon Food Forest Permaculture Project

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The goal of the Beacon Food Forest is to design, plant and grow an edible urban forest garden that inspires our community to gather together, grow our own food and rehabilitate our local ecosystem.  Join us to improve public health by regenerating our public land into an edible forest ecosystem. We work to reduce agricultural climate impact, improve our local food security, provide educational opportunities, and celebrate growing food for the benefit of all species.

Garden Writers Association

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A public service program of the GWA Foundation. Garden writers are asked to encourage their readers/listeners to plant an extra row of produce each year and donate their surplus to local food banks, soup kitchens and service organizations to help feed America’s hungry.

There are over 84 million households with a yard or garden in the U.S. If every gardener plants one extra row of vegetables and donates their surplus to local food agencies and soup kitchens, a significant impact can be made on reducing hunger.

PAR provides focus, direction and support to volunteer committees that promote herb, vegetable and community gardening at the local level. Then we provide training and direction to enable the committee to reach out into the community. Finally, we assist in coordinating the local food collection systems and monitor the volume of donations being conveyed to food agencies.

Hunger Bus

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Our mission is to inspire, raise funds, non-perishable food items and hunger awareness, working towards ending hunger through musical performance, staging concerts and events to benefit food banks, pantries and other non-profit agencies.

Our goal is to perform annually from coast to coast over a hundred “Stop Hunger in America” benefits. 100% of the proceeds will go directly to the local food bank. The majority of the food banks are part of the Feeding America network. Chakulla and other artists will perform at a variety of venues ranging from Food Bank Open Houses, coffee houses, music festivals, to school auditoriums. In addition, Chakulla will be playing at Whole Foods throughout the country.

There is an active Kickstarter funding project to provide the annual operating expenses for The Hunger Bus.

Canstruction

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A unique charity which hosts competitions, exhibitions and events showcasing colossal structures made out of full cans of food. After the structures are built, the cansculptures® go on display to the public as a giant art exhibition. At the end of the event, all food is donated to local hunger relief organizations.

Recognized for our commitment to innovation, hunger relief  and collaboration, our work has helped raise nearly 40 million pounds of food since 1992.  Canstruction® events are hosted in over 150 cities around the world including North America, Australia, South America, Europe and Asia.