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  • From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] PR/Fri June 3/The Legal Landscape of Social Enterprise & the Sharing Economy/Santa Barbara
  • Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 07:07:44 -0700

Contact: Margie Bushman
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571, margie@sbpermaculture.org

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
presents:
The Legal Landscape of Social Enterprise & the Sharing Economy
with Jenny Kassan & Janelle Orsi
from the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC)

Evening Talk, Friday, June 3, 7-9pm 2011
Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery
Admission $10/$5 students & seniors
~

We all want a more sustainable society, but what are the legal implications and changes needed to move society beyond the ongoing legal/illegal dance of sustainability and the challenges of emerging local economies?

Please join Jenny Kassan & Janelle Orsi from the Sustainable Law Center (SELC) for a stimulating discussion of sharing economies, collaborative consumption, social enterprise, and other intriguing and promising trends affecting our local economies and livelihoods.
Urban agriculture, community-owned enterprises with locally raised capital, local currencies, barter economies, worker-owned cooperatives, intentional communities, car sharing, these are many of the key ingredients in the transition to more sustainable local economies. What are the possibilities, the challenges, and the practical and legal barriers? How might these trends transform our communities and what steps can we all take to catalyze change?

Jenny Kassan and Janelle Orsi are Co-Directors of the <http://www.sustainableeconomieslawcenter.org/>Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC), which facilitates the growth of more sustainable and localized economies through education, research, and advocacy to support practices such as barter, sharing, cooperatives, urban agriculture, shared housing, local currencies, community-supported enterprises, and local investing. Janelle and Jenny are co-authors of the American Bar Association's forthcoming book, "Sharing Law: Understanding the Legal Landscape of the Sharing Economy".

Jenny Kassan is an attorney and community development consultant, specializing in creative capital raising and socially responsible ventures. She is the Managing Director of <http://www.katovichlaw.com/>Katovich <http://www.katovichlaw.com/> Law Group, and CEO of <http://www.cuttingedgecapital.com/>Cutting Edge Capital. Her legal practice areas include small business start-up and financing, securities regulation, nonprofit law, business agreements, real estate development, franchising, cooperatives, and assessment districts. Jenny earned a masters degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley and earned her J.D. from Yale Law School.

Janelle Orsi is a "sharing lawyer" in private practice, specializing in helping communities share housing and cars, form cooperatives, launch urban farming initiatives, and form social enterprises. She is co-author of "The Sharing Solution: How to Save Money, Simplify Your Life & Build Community" (Nolo Press 2009). Janelle earned her J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law.


The event takes place on Friday, June 3, 7pm, at the Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu Street. Donation $10 general;$5 students & seniors, no reservations required.

Sponsored by the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
More information, visit www.sbpermaculture.org, email margie@sbpermaculture.org, (805) 962-2571.

Event Supporters: SBBC Center for Sustainability, SBCC Scheinfeld Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Permaculture Credit Union, Loa Tree, Slow Money Santa Barbara Chapter, Island Seed & Feed, Permaculture Guild of Santa Barbara, Nutiva, Green2Gold, Johnny Sacko, and the UCSB Sustainability Program, Oasis Design, The Sustainability Project and the Fund for Santa Barbara.



More Info:
Presenter Contact Info:
Sustainable Economies Law Center http://www.sustainableeconomieslawcenter.org/
Janelle Oris, Lawyer <http://janelleorsi.com/>http://janelleorsi.com/

Jenny Kassan, Lawyer
President Cutting Edge Capital http://www.cuttingedgecapital.com
Katovich Law Group http://www.katovichlaw.com
YouTubes:
Economy Sandwich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVUXiUkfQCs

Citylicious: A Movie About Growing Food in Cities
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYUr0GKWWX8&NR=1



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(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
www.sbpermaculture.org

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Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: [SANET-MG] Improving the nutritional quality of
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [SANET-MG] Improving the nutritional quality of food crops
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 10:08:45 -0400
From: Joel Gruver <jgruv@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU

Hello folks,

there are 3 basic strategies for improving the nutritional quality of food crops.

cultural practices (e.g.., fertilization, crop rotation, tillage, irrigation...)
crop breeding (e.g., selection of cultivars with enhanced nutrient uptake and partitioning of nutrients to harvested portions of plants)
post harvest management (e.g., crop storage and food preparation practices that minimize nutrient losses and potentially increase nutrient availability)

There has actually been good research in each of these directions.

Focus on only one dimension (e.g., fertilization with micronutrients) may be appropriate in some situations but a more comprehensive approach will certainly be more broadly effective.

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the following review articles may be of interest:

Philip J. White and Martin R. Broadley. 2005. Biofortifying crops with essential mineral elements. TRENDS in Plant Science Vol.10 No.12
http://infolib.hua.edu.vn/Fulltext/ChuyenDe2009/CD61/22.pdf

Humans require more than 22 mineral elements, which can all be supplied by an appropriate diet. However, the diets of populations subsisting on cereals, or inhabiting
regions where soil mineral imbalances occur, often lack Fe, Zn, Ca, Mg, Cu, I or Se. Traditional strategies to deliver these minerals to susceptible populations have
relied on supplementation or food fortification programs. Unfortunately, these interventions have not always been successful. An alternative solution is to increase mineral concentrations in edible crops. This is termed ‘biofortification’. It can be achieved by mineral fertilization or plant breeding. There is considerable genetic variation in crop species that can be harnessed for sustainable biofortification strategies. Varieties with increased mineral concentrations in their edible portions are already available, and new genotypes with higher mineral densities are being developed.

Graham, R.D. et al. (2001) Addressing micronutrient malnutrition through
enhancing the nutritional quality of staple foods: principles,
perspectives and knowledge gaps. Adv. Agron. 70, 77–142 (I have a print
copy that I could scan)

Joel

Joel Gruver

School of Agriculture

Western Illinois University

jgruv@hotmail.com




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