Robin shares how industrial agriculture has distanced us from the hands that grow and process our food. She explores why eating from your bioregion is good for you, good for your community, and good for the planet. As we commit, in some small way, to eating within a radius of where we live, we help turn the tide toward sustainable living and reconnect to community. Vicki Robin has been a pioneer at the forefront of the sustainable living movement. She has helped launch many sustainability initiatives including: The New Road Map Foundation, The Simplicity Forum, The Turning Tide Coalition, Sustainable Seattle, The Center for a New American Dream, Transition Whidbey, and more. In the 1990’s she served on the President’s Council on Sustainable Development’s Task Force on Population and Consumption. Her books include Your Money or Your Life (Co-Author Joe Dominguez) (Penguin Books 2008, revised) and Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: What Eating Closer to Home Can Teach Us About Food (Viking 2014)

Interview Date: 1/17/2014   Tags: Vicki Robin, food systems, nourishment, relational eating, nature, farms, farmers, food, organic food, agriculture, place-based eating, 10-mile eating experiment, ten mile eating experiment, food democracy, corporate controlled agriculture, industrial food system, fertility of the soil, fertility of soil, hope, resilience, Food Twenty Twenty, Food 2020, community, Community, Environment/Nature/Ecology, Social Change/Politics