Key Organic Industry leaders
share an inspired message
that will galvanize those who love organics.
I see this as a movement Standing Up for Nature's Original Technology,
and each of being an Organic Uprising!
TAKE ACTION
WALT ROBB AND DAVID KIMBRELL
OF THE CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY
The Center for Food Safety is featured in the video
"Organic Stakeholders Call for Action!"
This was recorded at the session GMO Political Challenge 2011
and Beyond March 11, 2011
March 18 The Center for Food Safety launched a legal case to half the growing of GE Alfalfa.
Please go to the Center For Food Safety to support the Campaign.
Often it takes a galvanizing issue to get people to stop bickering and rally around a common cause. Such a renewed sense of purpose was recently provided by the USDA’s approval of genetically engineered alfalfa, which has brought the entire organic industry to its feet. What made me especially happy was seeing key leaders like Walter Robb, co-CEO of Whole Foods, Michael Funk, chairman of United Natural Foods (UNFI), George Siemen, president of Organic Valley and Gary Hirshberg, founder and CEO of Stonyfield, come together to lead a conversation with perhaps 500 organic activists. To me, it offered real hope that organic’s share of the retail food market will indeed manage to get beyond the three percent it currently comprises, and gave me more confidence than I’ve felt in nine years that it will continue to expand. For rising to the challenge created by this ill-advised decision (the alarming implications of which are discussed at the web site of The Organic Center), the leaders of the industry deserve our collective gratitude.
I set aim to fertilize an Organic Uprising at #expowest
through my Plant Your Dream blogs, and planting organic alfalfa
with organic stakeholders. The intentions prevailed. The four bowls
or organic seedlings were an inspiration to many as the photos reveal.
My Photos from the Natural Product Expo West 2011
are on Mobile Me Galleries and Facebook
with links here. Thank you for clicking on the links for our Gallery Sponsors.
HISTORY IN THE MAKING
David Bronner, grandson of the famed soap maker Dr. Bronner, and president of Dr. Bronners "Magic All-One!" was one of more than 500 industry leaders and participants in a historic gathering that took place Friday March 11 at the Natural Product Expo West.
Thanks to the sponsors of this gallery for underwriting the time
we are taking to tell the story.
Friday March 11 is a day that goes down in history.
It was a day when Nature's Original Technology asked to be recognized.
In Anaheim, 500 members of the Natural Product Industry gathered
to align behind NON-GMO and hear one another.
That same day, 5500 miles away, earthquake hit Japan.
What is Mother Earth asking of us now?
SPONSORS OF THE NATURAL PRODUCT EXPO WEST 2011 PHOTO GALLERIES
AND OUR ORGANIC UPRISING AT #EXPOWEST VIDEOS
WHITE WAVE AND HORIZON
GIVING THANKS TO KELLY SHEA
FOR HELPING US LAUNCH ORGANIC UPRISING
AT THE NATURAL PRODUCT EXPO WEST
#expowest March 10-13, 2011
Kelly Shea, Organic Maven, supporter of the "Beet" of Nature.
I had a ball with Kelly Shea, helped arrange for White Wave
to be a gallery sponsor of photos for the Organic Uprising Campaign.
Kelly and I connected at the Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) Luncheon.
Kelly is VP of Government and Industry Relations
and heads Organic Stewardship for WhiteWave Foods Company.
WhiteWave's mission is to be the Earth's Favorite
Food Company. Go White wave!!!! Kelly Shea won my heart
and ongoing support at the 2011 Natural Product Expo West.
Sean Ahearn, Director of Development and Programming for the
Harmony Festival signed on to be a co-sponsor of our show photos
and Organic Uprising at the #expowest Video when we met thanks
to Seleyn Deyarus at the Organic Roots party Saturday night
March 12, 2011 att he Anaheim Plaza Hotel.
Read Anthony Zolezzi's new post on the Natural Product Expo West.
He mentions the launch of the Organic Center Mission Organic 9 years ago
that hoped to raise organic usage by 10% by 2010. We were at 3 % last year he points out.
I for one am starting a new paradigm as Anthony Zolezzi called
Organic Uprising! We simple have to turn the beat of nature around by
growing a bit of our own food. One Pot + One Person= You are a Gardener.
It is essential to say No to GMO now; however, we have to say Yes to Nature's Original Technology.
We are called now to do what we have done as a species since the beginning, be and live organically.
Trip down Memory Lane, Anthony Zolezzi, center with hat, is an amazing entrepreneur in the natural foods and sustainability industry. He has inspired me for many years,and been a sponsor for numbers of my projects.
MOBILE ME GALLERIES
SUPER RIPE IMAGES
IMAGES OF A WORLD AT PEACE
ORGANIC CENTER GALLERY 2006
PHOTOS FROM THE BIRTH OF THE
MISSION ORGANIC THAT AIMED
TO HAVE THE U.S. BE ORGANIC BY 2010.
I was Anthony Zolezzi's personal photography at the Organic Center Fundraiser
in 2006 when Mission Organic was launched. I planted seeds with Anthony
that the Organic Center would achieve this goal. We still need to fulfill that
Seed Dream. Here are the images from the Organic Center launching of
Mission Organic in 2006.
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