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<div>Ever shop at a farmers market? Plant a home garden? Wonder where
your food comes from? You're not alone. Amidst concerns about
genetically modified foods, mad cow disease, and urban sprawl, people
everywhere are swarming farmers markets, reforming fast food chains,
and declaring independence from the global vending machine.<i> Eat
Here</i> shows why eating local can be better for your health, for
farmers, and for the planet.</div>
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<div>CISA - Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture and Hampshire
College's Environmental Studies and Sustainability Program and the
Local Foods Initiative invite you to meet Worldwatch Institute author
Brian Halweil as he discusses his book and local responses to the
globalization of our food supply.</div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+1"><b>Wednesday, December 1,
2004</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1"><b>4:00 - 5:00
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<div align="center"><font size="+1"><b>East Lecture
Hall</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1"><b>Franklin Patterson
Hall</b></font></div>
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<div>Brian Halweil, a Senior Researcher, joined Worldwatch in 1997 as
the John Gardner Public Service Fellow from Stanford University. At
the Institute, Brian writes on the social and ecological impacts of
how we grow food, focusing recently on organic farming, biotechnology,
hunger, and rural communities. Most recently, he describes the
evolving local food movement in<i> Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown
Pleasures in a Global Supermarket</i>.<br>
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<div>Brian's work has been featured in the international press, and he
recently testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations on the role of biotechnology in combating poverty and hunger
in the developing world. Brian has traveled extensively in Mexico,
Central America and the Caribbean, and East Africa learning indigenous
farming techniques and promoting sustainable food production. Before
coming to Worldwatch, Brian worked with California farmers interested
in reducing their pesticide use, and set up a 2-acre student-run
organic farm on Stanford campus. He writes from Sag Harbor, NY, where
he and his wife tend a home garden and orchard.</div>
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