Environmental Consortium

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The 7th Annual Meeting of the Environmental Consortium

The 2010 Consortium meeting and conference brought together small-scale family farms; chefs/restaurant owners; agriculture policy experts; farm-to-table non-profits; researchers and others to foster a collaborative, interdisciplinary dialogue about our foodshed.

Following two days of proceedings, the recommendations to higher education from keynote speakers, panelists, and presenters were clear:

1. train young farmers (the overwhelming majority of them are now 57+ years old);

2. encourage community dialogue to make land use policies more favorable to farmers;

3. offer college and university land for model teaching farms; and

4. conduct research on sub-regional foodsheds and organic or biodynamic agricultural food systems.

Friday Highlights
Keynotes, Plenaries, Breakouts and Expo

Foodshed Challenges and Successes
Distributional Aspects of the Hudson Region Foodshed (role of farmer, restaurant, individual)
Institutional Factors of the Hudson Region Foodshed (role of policy, foodshed as a culture, food justice)
How to Engage Higher Education Communities
Exhibitor Expo & Book Table
Documentary Film Screening: The Greenhorns

Saturday Highlights
Keynote, Plenary, Posters, Field Trips

Campus Dining: Setting and Achieving Common Goals for Local Food Sourcing
Student and Faculty Posters on Regional Environmental Research and Scholarship in All Disciplines
Field Trip to The Pfeiffer Center for Biodynamics and the Environment

Conference Planning Committee:
Michelle Land, Pace University (Chair)
Susan Golz, SUNY Rockland Community College
Donna Kowal, Pace University
Lynn Maelia, Mount Saint Mary College
Michael Mascarenhas, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Larry O’Connell, Pace University
Jennifer Phillips, Bard College
Andrew Revkin, Pace University
Kathryn Scullion, SUNY Sullivan County Community College
Zywia Wojnar, Pace Law School

Co-Sponsors