permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>]

There is definitely a concerted effort afoot to identify GMO technology 
as sustainable - this is what we are confronted with in the ANSI 
Sustainable Ag Standards Committee, and why it is important to follow 
that effort and get involved as you can.

Laura, we definitely need help with those "easy" criteria and indicators
that can be applied in a site-specific way.  There is a group of us on 
this Committee who represent the values and principles that most of this 
list serve would support - and we need as much help as we can get.  This 
is a very open and transparent process, and anyone who is interested can 
see all meeting minutes and draft documents, and can participate fully 
in Subcommittee work.  The voting membership is pretty well balanced and 
not controlled by the conventional ag side of things, hard as they try 
to make it so.

There is a meeting coming up in Fayetteville, AR this Monday-Tuesday, 
and anyone who can make it is welcome as an Observer.  You just have to 
contact Amanda Raster at the Leonardo Academy (cc:d above).  More 
information (lots more) is available via the wiki site:
http://sites.google.com/site/sustainableagstandards/about-this-project.

Thanks for your good work,

Grace

Grace Gershuny
Member, ANSI Sustainable Agriculture Standards Committee