Thought some sudoers and Omnis would be interested in this free series.
http://food.berkeley.edu/edible-education-101/
*Watch Berkeley's free lecture series on fixing the world's broken food
systems*
/"Eating is, among other things, an ecological act."/
By Vlad Savov
Jan 28 2015
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/28/7927077/berkeley-edible-education-lecture…
Some of the world's preeminent food policy thinkers and researchers are
taking part in a new Edible Education lecture series at UC Berkeley this
spring semester, and their lectures are being made available to stream
online. Starting this Monday with an introductory note from Michael
Pollan (video above, jump to the 9-minute mark to skip the preamble),
the series will be updated weekly with contributions from Marion Nestle,
Eric Schlosser, and Raj Patel. You can stream those live on the day
itself and participate in a Q&A on Twitter and Facebook, or you can just
pick up the video on YouTube later on.
The decisions made when setting food policy, argues Pollan, have broader
consequences than most of us imagine. "Eating is, among other things, an
ecological act," he says, before detailing some of the more devitalizing
impacts of high-volume agriculture on our environment and ecology. He
also echoes the words of New York Times writer Mark Bittman, another
participant in this Edible Education initiative, in asking for more
political attention to be granted to the centrality of food to so many
issues:
"These are all related: You can’t address climate change without
fixing agriculture, you can’t fix health without improving diet, you
can’t improve diet without addressing income, and so on. The production,
marketing and consumption of food is key to nearly everything."
The series will run all the way through the end of April, with the final
few lectures looking into ideas for a more sustainable food system that
can serve the planet's population without sapping its resources as
aggressively as the current one.
thanks Null (whoever that is) for bringing this up and suggesting good
pointers on how we should deal with such situations.
I agree with Patrik that it's important for someone to take a picture,
when someone makes enough of a problem that it takes multiple people to
deal with them, a photograph is essential for two reasons:
1. it allows us to share with each other the knowledge about a problem
person in case they come back (expecting no one will remember them)
2. it lets them know that we will not forget who they are, and that they
should forget about us and never come back.
I must stress that #2 is the most important aspect of this, because
ultimately our goal should be for problem people to go away and never come
back. Ideally they will tell their friends "don't bother, those people
are not the victims we believed them to be" or a paraphrase of that.
in particular, read the story of "Thief" from the noisebridge 86 wiki:
https://noisebridge.net/wiki/86
"This guy went into the back classroom and took Rayc's wallet out of his
backpack. Rayc saw him with the wallet in his hand and the guy tried to
say it was his. He then started running towards the door and was tackled
by Jake. We made him show us that nothing was in his pockets, and he kept
avoiding the big pocket in the front of his jacket. This pocket turned
out to have Sasha's smart phone. During the search his crack pipe fell
onto the floor and broke into many pieces. We let him go and told him
not to come back."
It took several people holding onto him to keep him from exiting down the
stairwell with people's property. He really wanted to leave but he did
not hit or strike anyone at any time, which is why we let him go after
searching him and getting the stolen items back.
When there is no photograph, it's basically impossible to prevent a person
from coming back whenever they want unless there is a person there who
will recognize them. We can't be playing cat and mouse with people who
want to take advantage of us.
-jake
Hey folks,
All day this Wednesday Jan 28th in Omni Commons, join the fundraising
working group starting at 12noon in making the final push to reach our goal
before the deadline:
11:59pm 1/28/2015 (Weds night!)
Thank you to everyone who has participated and given so far, in ways small
and large. We are all co-dependent.
// Matt
anyone interested in starting up again a regular hardware hack night? we've
had them in the past, but i don't think there are any regular meetups
focused on hardware right now. we have a cyberwizard who is interested in
pursuing hardware hacking and would be interested in a regular meetup.
- marina
I'm trying to arrange a talk and audio presentation in mid-Feb by David
Monacchi, a Professor of Electroacoustic Music at the Conservatory of
Pesaro, Italy who has spent years performing 3D audio recordings of the
rainforest.
Playback of these amazing recordings requires super-specialized rooms and
sound setups and the Audium <http://www.audium.org/index.html> in SF is
about the only place I can think might be able to do it.
I sent them an email but I'm hoping someone in our community might have a
way to contact them, since if this event is going to happen, its coming up
fast.
Does anybody know anybody at Audium?
David
I think I left it there when I was showing some comrades my new LED
projector: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2457122,00.as
Not much inside it, only a $13 slimport adapter for my Nexus 7, a HDMI
cable and an audio cable, but it would be a convenience to reclaim it if
possible.
e
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I hope everyone won't mind this unsolicited zinetic outburst. I simply
cannot contain myself.
The second issue of my zine is now online at http://resistor.spaz.org!
<http://resistor.spaz.org>
Click the PDF directory. You will find reading & printing PDFs for both
issues of SF Resistor so far.
The second issue was actually finished just before Christmas as scheduled,
but it's taken me this long to figure out FTP for the first time & get the
files up without an internet-connectable laptop of my own.
If you are just reading the zine online, select the read.pdfs for each
issue.
SFR2 appears green because it's printed on green paper. I am heading north
in a couple months but plan to produce two more issues of SFR before
leaving. I'm already at work on the 3rd one. Each issue will be printed on
different color paper. Then I will collect the zine quadrilogy & dispense
copies to excellent people. That will happen in mid-March/early April.
Instructions for printing are on page 3 of SFR2, & will soon be up on the
site in a README file.
The site will be developed into a blog (ArcTangent (x) is the name) but is
just a seedling file tree a t m.
And for anyone who saw one of the crappy first-run print copies of SFR2,
the PDF file write snafu has been corrected (it turned out to be a simple
directory name error on my part) so I have print copies that look good &
are fully legible now. I'm bringing some to the OMNI bookstore this
weekend. (My second visit to the new Sudospace.)
I would like to help develop the SR zine & teach people how to make zines,
do layout both digitally & by hand, etc.
Also I am helping my friend, a person known to many, start a combination
printshop+cafe in the east bay soon. The need is definitely there. I've
been doing my printing at the public library & the print stations there are
always packed to the max. I've started giving impromptu tutoring sessions
to puzzled library patrons, since I often seem to know more about this
stuff than the staff.
*SF Resistor #2*
*December 2014*
*List of Contents*
Page 1: Intro / District Zero / Freeks
Page 2: Feedback (reader letters)
Page 3: Printing, layout & design info
Page 4: My Many SF Squats (3 Years of Exhilarating Chaos!)
Page 5: Media Watch - Housing Crisis
Page 6: A few thoughts on Activism
Page 7: A few thoughts on Activism / Chaotic Neutral
Page 8: Toilet Trouble (And now we must turn our attention to fecal
matters...)
Page 9: M-Theory News (Headlines From the Twilight Dimension)
Page 10: Season’s Greetings from Leatherface & the boys!
Page 11: (Centerfold A) What I’d like for Christmas!
Page 12: (Centerfold B) Street Gallery
Page 13: Garbage Lessons (Dumpster diving tips from a total amateur)
Page 14: Transmissions From the Id – Hackers in the Attic
Page 15: Transmissions From the Id – Hackers in the Attic (concluded)
Page 16: Tales of the Soup Kitchen (St. Anthony’s)
Page 17: Brain Food (book reviews) – Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of
Alan Moore, The Drunken Botanist, Wicked Plants, The Tao of Physics
Page 18: Sharks in the Water! / S.Q.U.A.T. / Lava Mae
Page 19: Watch Cat – Bay Guardian demise & related bullshit
Page 20: People Still Like Books / “Unregistered Cities No. 1”
Page 21: The Eyes of Strangers (Urban Dharma)
Page 22: A Short Eulogy for Ted Gullicksen (long live the uncrowned king!)
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