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Resolarizing the Food System

April 22, 2009 on 2:07 pm | In Food, Nutrition, Sustainability | No Comments

Today is Earth Day (isn’t every day Earth Day?) and we were pleased to stumble across an article written by one of our favorite authors, Michael Pollan. Along wth Alice Waters, Mr. Pollan reminds us that some of the most progressive thinking on food and food systems comes from right here in the Bay Area. As usual, Mr. Pollan gets to the heart of the matter with plain, unadorned language that always serves to remind us that good food can and should be a simple proposition:

Resolarizing the food economy can support diversified farming and shorten the distance from farm to fork, shrinking the amount of fossil fuel in the American diet. A decentralized food system offers many other significant benefits: Food eaten closer to where it is grown is fresher and requires less processing, making it more nutritious, and whatever may be lost in efficiency by localizing food production is gained in resilience; regional food systems can better withstand all kinds of shocks.

If you have a moment, read the whole article and if you like what you read, buy his books, you won’t be disappointed.