[Scpg] "Re-localizing Food: Beyond the 3,000-mile Caesar Salad," February 8th in the Townley Room 7-9 Santa Barbara Public Library

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

"Re-localizing Food: Beyond the 3,000-mile Caesar Salad," February 8th in 
the Townley Room  7-9 Santa Barbara Public Library

Could Santa Barbara Face A Food Shortage?
"Re-localizing Food: Beyond the 3,000-mile Caesar Salad" talk set for Feb. 8th

  During a crisis when roads and transportation into Santa Barbara are 
compromised, could farmers and local residents grow enough food to feed 
everyone in our community?  That question will be the focus of 
"Re-localizing Food: Beyond the 3,000-mile Caesar Salad," a free talk on 
February 8th in the Townley Room at the downtown Santa Barbara Public 
Library, 7 - 9 p.m. The public is encouraged to attend this event being 
presented by the Sustainable Small Cities project of For the Future -- a 
Santa Barbara think tank -- and the Santa Barbara Organic Garden Club.

When Disaster Hits Home

Leaders from the local food community will discuss whether or not Santa 
Barbara is adequately prepared to feed itself without undue reliance on 
distant food sources in the face of looming crises like fuel shortages, 
climate instability, mud slides, earthquakes, or terrorists attacks that 
could make air travel, trucking, and the continued use of petroleum-based 
pesticides and herbicides prohibitive. Speakers will include Richard Bruce 
Anderson, Ph.D., author, lecturer, and Senior Fellow of For the Future, and 
Linda and Larry Buzzell-Saltzman, co-founders of the Santa Barbara Organic 
Garden Club who are also Fellows at For the Future.

About Richard Bruce Anderson

For the Future 
(<http://www.forthefuture.org/>www.forthefuture<http://www.forthefuture.org/>.org) 
was founded in 2004 by Dr. Anderson to encourage a reassessment of our 
consumer-based, oil-dependent way of life in American society.  He is the 
author of A Better Life: What the Consumer Culture Takes from Us, and How 
to Take It Back, and has published numerous op-ed pieces on consumerism and 
related subjects in the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Santa Barbara 
News-Press, HopeDance www.hopedance.org , and other periodicals. Many of 
his articles have been re-printed in newspapers across the United States 
including the International Herald Tribune.

Since 1998, Dr. Anderson has been a member of the board of directors of 
Seeds of Simplicity, a national organization that encourages voluntary 
simplicity. From 1993 to 1999, Dr. Anderson served as a lecturer in the 
Environmental Studies Department at the University of California, Santa 
Barbara, where he developed a class on the human future as a whole that was 
originally funded by the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation.

Dr. Anderson holds a Ph.D. in educational psychology, a masters degree in 
educational technology, and a bachelors degree in combined social sciences 
-- all from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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