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"The work of the Land Institute has been featured extensively in the popular media, including The Atlantic Monthly, Audubon, "The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour." and NPR's "All Things considered." Life magazine named Wes Jackson as one of 18 individuals they predict will be among the 100 "most important Americans of the 20th century." He is a recipient of the Pew Conservation Scholars award (1990) and a [[MacArthur Fellowship]] (1992)." <ref>[http://www.umich.edu/~envsem/events/jackson.html Wes Jackson], umich, accessed January 5, 2009.</ref>[http://www.counterpunch.org/jensen07102003.html Interview]

*==Chez Sludge==Jackson is on the Advisory Board of the [[Chez Panisse Foundation]]. The [[Food Rights Network]] released a major investigative report on July 9, 2010 titled: '''[https://www.prwatch.org/Chez+Sludge Chez Sludge: How the Sewage Sludge Industry Bedded Alice Waters]'''. <ref>John Stauber, [Ehttps://www. Fprwatch. Schumacher Societyorg/Chez+Sludge Chez Sludge: How the Sewage Sludge Industry Bedded Alice Waters], PRWatch.org, July 9, 2010</ref> It examines collusion between the [[Chez Panisse Foundation]]and the [[SFPUC]] based on an extensive open records investigation of the SFPUC internal files. (To view the internal documents see: [[SFPUC Sludge Controversy Timeline]].) ==Foundation Mired in 'Sewage Sludge on Gardens'==*In 2009 and 2010 a major controversy erupted in San Francisco involving Chez Panisse Foundation Executive Director [[Lindisfarne Francesca Vietor]] when the [[Center for Food Safety]] (upon whose Advisory Board sits [[Alice Waters]]) and the [[Organic Consumers Association]]called on the [[San Francisco Public Utilities Commission]], of which Vietor is Vice President, to end its give-away of toxic [[sewage sludge]] as 'organic compost' for gardeners. <ref>Catherine Bigelow, [http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-02-07/living/17847872_1_luc-tuymans-neal-benezra-city-hall And across the bay, Francesca Vietor is the new executive director of the Chez Panisse Foundation], Social City, SFGate February 7, 2010.</ref><ref>Heather Knight, [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/27/BAAK19SC1J.DTL Nonprofit calls PUC's compost toxic sludge], San Francisco Chronicle, September 27, 2009.</ref> <ref>Barry Estabrook, [http://politicsoftheplate.com/?p=138 Sludge Fest: Center for Food Safety vs. San Francisco. It’s a battle that may be coming soon to a city near you], Politics of the Plate, November 30, 2009</ref><ref>Barry Estabrook, [http://www.theatlantic.com/food/archive/2009/12/free-compost-or-toxic-sludge/31024/ Free Compost--Or Toxic Sludge?], The Atlantic, December 1, 2009.</ref> <ref>Jill Richardson, [http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/33851 Food Sunday: Toxic Sludge as 'Organic Fertilizer'], FireDogLake, March 7, 2010.</ref> In advance of the OCA's March 4 sludge protest at City Hall, the [[SFPUC]] temporarily halted the give-away. <ref>Chris Roberts, [http://sfappeal.com/news/2010/03/farmers-call-pucs-shit-will.php News Farmers Call PUC's Shit, Will Dump it on City Hall Today], San Francisco Appeal, March 4, 2010.</ref> The misleading labeled "organic compost," which the PUC has given away free to gardeners since 2007, is composed of toxic sewage sludge from San Francisco and eight other counties. Very little toxicity testing has been done, but what little has been done is alarming. Just the sludge from San Francisco alone has tested positive for [http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/hlthef/dibromo-.html 1,2-Dibromo-3-Chloropropane] (a.k.a. DBCP), [http://www.epa.gov/iris/subst/0414.htm Isopropyltoluene] (a.k.a. p-cymene or p-isopropyltoluene), [http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/dioxins/index.cfm Dioxins] and [http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv/environ/dioxin-eng.php Furans]. <ref> Jill Richardson, [http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/3480/what-san-francisco-found-in-their-own-sludge What San Francisco Found in Their Own Sludge], La Vida Locavore blog, April 8, 2010.</ref>*CouncilThe Organic Consumers Association conducted a noon hour picket of Chez Panisse April 1, 2010, after Alice Waters refused a request to oppose growing food in sewage sludge. <ref>Leora Broydo Vestel, http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/food-groups-clash-over-compost-sludge/ Food Groups Clash Over Compost Sludge, New York Times Green Inc. blog, April 9 2010.</ref> The industry front group [[World Future CouncilACSH]]is now making Alice Waters a poster-child for toxic sewage sludge.<ref> Jill Richardson, [http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/3495/oh-alice-dont-let-them-do-this-to-you Oh Alice, Don't Let Them Do This To You], Lavidalocavore blog, Apr 12, 2010</ref> <ref>Barry Estabrook, [http://politicsoftheplate.com/?p=384 Alice Finds Herself in Troubled Waters], Politics of the Plate, April 26, 2010.</ref>