I think this is a good, very easy way to help get urban ag on the agenda. You can only give it 3 votes max. but there are a lot of other good ideas to vote for too. Sorry for cross-postings.
Cynthia Price Greater Grand Rapids Food Systems Council ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel Bowman Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 3:01 PM Subject: [food_justice] Obama's New Office of Urban Policy -- Promote Urban Farming To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CROSS POSTED ON COMFOOD: Here's another angle to influence food policy in America... It barely made the news, but President-elect Obama seems to be making good on his (also under-reported) campaign promise to create a White House Office of Urban Policy. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/11/obama-to-create.html http://origin.barackobama.com/issues/urban_policy/ Wonder if they'll hire a point person on urban ag? (aside from The White House Farmer-in-Chief of course!) The folks at FrontSeat ("software for civic life") have launched a new web site to collect ideas for the Office of Urban Policy. Voting up your favorite ideas is easy (no login req'd.) No guarantee they'll look at this, but it could have an impact. "Promote Urban Farming" could use some help to bring it up on the priority list a few notches... http://obamaurbanpolicy.org/ http://obamaurbanpolicy.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/71002(Direct link to Promote Urban Farming) Best, Daniel -- Daniel Bowman Simon The White House Organic Farm Project www.TheWhoFarm.org (sign the petition!) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20081115/14797150/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
