Thursday, October 1, I had the privilege to attend an afternoon panel discussion at Northeastern Illinois University, featuring Gary Cuneen, Founding Executive Director of Seven Generations Ahead; Lucy Feliciano-Gomez, Lead Health Organizer for Logan Square Neighborhood Association; Orrin Williams, Center for Urban Transformation; and Frances Moore Lappe (and here, I’ll need to learn how to [...]

I engaged in the Advocates for Urban Agriculture (AUA) pot luck annual membership meeting Wednesday evening at the Garfield Conservancy. Part of the evening was spent in individual groups discussing what the future of AUA is to be, and much of our group’s discussion surrounded around how to improve web communications. How to gather e-mail [...]