Applicants Sought for a Local Food Council

WSU and Citizens for Local Food are collaborating to launch a new Local Food Council for Jefferson County.  The vision is to attract volunteers from across the entire food system:  farmers, value added producers, regulatory people, health educators, restauranteurs, institutional food service folks, food retail, food security/food bank representatives, Grange members, resource waste management,  elected officials, and concerned citizens, willing … Read the rest

Learn about Local Food System Council

Wednesday, October 01, 2014, 06:00pm – 08:00pm

Come hear about Clark County’s 7 year experience with a Local Food System Council, a group with membership across the various food sectors, from farmers, to food banks, to restauranteurs and institutional chefs, health department regulatory folks, all the way through food waste management.FREE and open to the public, this event hopes to
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Energy Lunch July 15, 2014

Tues., July 15, 2014, 12:30-1:30 p.m.:  Dahr Jamail, a staff reporter for Truthout and a former producer and journalist for Al Jazeera in the Middle East, will present at this month’s Jefferson County Energy Lunch Program.

His talk, titled “The Inadequacy of Global Hydrocarbon Energy Supplies,” is based on his years of reporting on the inadequacies and damaging effects of … Read the rest