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The Kaslo Food Security Project (a project of North Kootenay Lake Community Services Society in beautiful Kaslo, British Columbia) launched it's second year with Lawns to Gardens- a project to encourage, inspire and guide as many residents as possible to convert their lawns into nutrient rich food and native plant producing gardens. This video is glance at our Lawns to Gardens project. We hope that many communities will use it to inspire and dig up as many lawns as possible.

Jason Bradford, host of "The Reality Report", interviews Jessica Prentice, co-founder of the Locavores, a San Francisco Bay Area group that gathers its food from within 100 miles of where they live. Prentice is also a professional chef and author of the book "Full Moon Feast", a culinary tour through the year that details the history of food in different cultures. Originally broadcast Sept 18, 2006 (49 min). Source: Global Public Media: Public Service Broadcasting for a Post-Carbon World.

Report from the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, March 2008 (32 pages). Includes summarized findings of research, demonstrations, studies and surveys that have been supported by the Leopold Center since 2000, and weblinks to full project reports.

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Food_Facts_0308.pdf

Report summary and recommendations (12 pages)
Transport 2000 Trust (UK), 2003. Full report available at http://www.transport2000.org.uk.

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Wise_Moves_-_GHGfoodsheds.pdf

Primer (32 pages). Community Food Security Coalition - North American Urban Agriculture Committee, Oct 2003.

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City_Center_Urban_Fringe1.pdf

Comprehensive report by AEA Technology for the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), July 2005  (117 pages).
Executive Summary is only 9 pages - and well worth reading.

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final.pdf

Excellent annotated bibliography of research papers, journal articles, newspaper articles, relevant legislation, and useful websites. (8 pages)  

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Local_foods_climate_change_annotated.pdf

A publication of ATTRA in the USA, the paper addresses how food miles are calculated, investigates how food miles affect producers and consumers, and evaluates methods for curbing the energy intensiveness of our food transportation system. One of many excellent resources created and freely available from the ATTRA website: http://www.attra.ncat.org/index.php

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foodmiles.pdf

Very clever animated short video produced by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. (4:21 min)

Connects the dots among dietary change and obesity, global food shortages and price increases, food waste, food miles, local economic well-being and food self-sufficiency. Calls on consumers and industry to each do their part.

In Japanese with English subtitles.