INST 2006: Dimensions of Culture & Society

All across the country, the ways and means of America's small farmers are evolving. Young Hispanic farm laborers in California's Salinas Valley are moving up the economic ladder, training to become tomorrow's organic farm owners. In Houston, Congolese refugees are creating communities around vacant urban lots. And in nearby Dallas, a struggling college commits an unthinkable act of football heresy, plowing their gridiron into a garden and transforming a social need into a delicious educational opportunity.

This episode of The Green Interview features Steven Guilbeault, an author, a science and environmental journalist, a consultant to venture capitalists, and a prominent Quebecois environmentalist.

Today, it tackles a broad range of issues: food, gardening, housing, transportation, and shopping but approaches the solutions from an individual as well as from an organizational angle. Equiterre also makes the link between environmental justice and social justice, drawing links between human and environmental health and encouraging decision makers to adopt laws and practices that are sustainable and fair.

Publication Date: United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 2017
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