In September I was selected as a winner of the “40 Under 40 competition” put on by the organic food industry publication Natural FoodsMerchandiser . These 40 winners, which also includes People’s Grocery’s ally Bryant Terry, are described as actors in the natural products industry who are all younger than 40 years old and “demonstrate […]

Van Jones, founder and President of Green for All, a national organization based in Oakland that is dedicated to “building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty”, has just made the New York Times best-seller list for his new book The Green Collar Economy. Van is the first black writer […]

A few months ago I attended the Organic Food Summit, an annual food industry conference put on by New Hope Natural Media attended mostly be organic food executives, entrepreneurs and media. This year’s conference was held in held at the St. Julien Inn and Spa in Boulder, CO. I participated on a panel entitled […]

The Washington Post reported on a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) study stating that almost a million more people participated in the government’s food stamp program between April and July, going to 28.08 million in April and to 29.05 million in July. The figure is the highest since November 2005, when Hurricanes Rita and Katrina […]

The Executive Director Job Announcement has been pulled from our website due to our great progress in identifying some very strong candidates. The post may come up again later should we not select any of these candidates.
However, I wanted to keep the audio/visual slide announcement available for those who may want to understand more […]

The Global Oneness Project produced a short video on People’s Grocery back in March 2008. Click here to see the video. Global Oneness’ video on People’s Grocery was recently selected for a film festival called the Reduction Festival.
Selected films are being voted on now until October 17 on the Reduction Festival website. Please […]