9/27 – Food Systems: “What Really Goes into a Good Meal?”
Paula Jones: Director of Food Systems, San Francisco Dept. of the Public Health
Paula has extensive experience in business administration, marketing, community organizing, project management and development. She has been involved in Urban Agriculture in San Francisco in a variety of capacities. Immediately prior to coming to San Francisco Food Systems, she was the Director of Urban Agriculture at the San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners focusing on food security through the following projects: urban farming in public housing developments, farmers markets in low-income communities, food pantries, and food security assessments. She was raised on a small family farm in rural Illinois.
9/30 – Water Use: “Where Does the Drain Come from, Where Does It Go?”
Nancy Wilkinson: Chair, Dept. of Geography, San francisco State University
Nancy Wilkinson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography & Human Environmental Studies at San Francisco State University. Educated at UC Santa Cruz, San Jose State and the University of Oregon, she teaches and writes about environmental perception and water resources in California, with special attention to environmental controversies around dam building and water allocation. She is working on a book entitled Dam California! and is a founding member of a Pacifica environmental group, the San Pedro Creek Watershed Coalition.
10/7 – Energy Use: “What Comes After the Peak?”
Cal broomhead: Energy and Climate Programs Manager, SF Dept. of the Environment
is the Energy and Climate Programs Manager at the SF Department of Environment where he develops and manages the City’s private sector energy programs, in energy efficiency, renewable energy and climate action with 8 staff and annual budget of $4 million. He has 24 years in the energy field starting as a home weatherization installer and salesman and providing barn-raising style solar and home energy workshops. Cal has designed over $3 million in energy efficiency improvements for dozens of City renovation and retrofit projects, started the City’s Green Building program, and has managed over $20 million in programs providing over 7000 local businesses with energy efficiency retrofits. He also helped author the City’s Sustainability Plan, Electricity Resource Plan, and Climate Action Plan.
10/14 – Consumer Goods: “Made in where?”
Alison Cook: “Story of Stuff”
Allison Cook works as a Program Associate at the Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption, a funder collaborative working to address the hidden environmental and social impacts of current systems of making, using and throwing away all the stuff of daily life. Presently, she is also directly involved with the Story of Stuff Project at Tides Center, a newly established organization working to respond to consumption and production patterns in the US and abroad alongside the recent interest generated by the internet film of the same name. Previously, she worked with the Center for the Study of Responsive Law researching the malfeasance of multinational corporations for their journal, The Multinational Monitor. Committed to healthcare for all, she also works at the Berkeley Free Clinic. Allison studied Critical Social Thought and Social Change at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is currently based in Berkeley, California.
