Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry wiki "is a working farmer in north central Kentucky and the author of more than 30 books of poetry, essays, and novels. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, a Lannan Foundation Award, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts." [1]
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Affiliations
- Advisory Board, E. F. Schumacher Society
- Advisory Board, Schumacher Center for a New Economics [2]
- Advisory Board, International Society for Ecology and Culture
- Advisory Board, Orion Magazine [3]
- Advisory Board, Edible Schoolyard Project [4]
- Advisory Committee, Wind Farm Alliance
- Fellow (2008), Lindisfarne Association
- Fellow, Temenos Academy [5]
Chez Sludge
Berry is on the Advisory Board of the Chez Panisse Foundation. The Food Rights Network released a major investigative report on July 9, 2010 titled: Chez Sludge: How the Sewage Sludge Industry Bedded Alice Waters. [6] 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 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. [7][8] [9][10] [11] In advance of the OCA's March 4 sludge protest at City Hall, the SFPUC temporarily halted the give-away. [12]
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 1,2-Dibromo-3-Chloropropane (a.k.a. DBCP), Isopropyltoluene (a.k.a. p-cymene or p-isopropyltoluene), Dioxins and Furans. [13]
The 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. [14] The industry front group ACSH is now making Alice Waters a poster-child for toxic sewage sludge.[15] [16]
Biography
- Jason Peters (ed.), Wendell Berry: Life and Work (University of Kentucky Press, 2007).
- Allan C. Carlson, The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement Toward Decentralist Thought in Twentieth-Century America (Transaction Publishers, 2004).
Resources and articles
Related Sourcewatch articles
- Deep Ecology
- Wes Jackson
- Chez Panisse Foundation
- Andrew Marvell
- Brian Keeble
- Richard Mabey
- Robert Macfarlane guardian
References
- ↑ Advisory Committee, Wind Farm Alliance, accessed December 2, 2008.
- ↑ Schumacher Center for a New Economics Advisory Board, organizational web page, accessed May 31, 2013.
- ↑ Orion Magazine Advisors, organizational web page, accessed April 25, 2012.
- ↑ Edible Schoolyard Project Advisory Board, organizational web page, accessed May 28, 2013.
- ↑ Temenos Academy Key Individuals, organizational web page, accessed July 1, 2012.
- ↑ John Stauber, Chez Sludge: How the Sewage Sludge Industry Bedded Alice Waters, PRWatch.org, July 9, 2010
- ↑ Catherine Bigelow, And across the bay, Francesca Vietor is the new executive director of the Chez Panisse Foundation, Social City, SFGate February 7, 2010.
- ↑ Heather Knight, Nonprofit calls PUC's compost toxic sludge, San Francisco Chronicle, September 27, 2009.
- ↑ Barry Estabrook, 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
- ↑ Barry Estabrook, Free Compost--Or Toxic Sludge?, The Atlantic, December 1, 2009.
- ↑ Jill Richardson, Food Sunday: Toxic Sludge as 'Organic Fertilizer', FireDogLake, March 7, 2010.
- ↑ Chris Roberts, News Farmers Call PUC's Shit, Will Dump it on City Hall Today, San Francisco Appeal, March 4, 2010.
- ↑ Jill Richardson, What San Francisco Found in Their Own Sludge, La Vida Locavore blog, April 8, 2010.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Jill Richardson, Oh Alice, Don't Let Them Do This To You, Lavidalocavore blog, Apr 12, 2010
- ↑ Barry Estabrook, Alice Finds Herself in Troubled Waters, Politics of the Plate, April 26, 2010.
