Joan Dye Gussow: A Pioneer's Perspective on Localizing Food Systems

Joan Dye Gussow, a long-time advocate for sustainable food systems, discusses her journey towards understanding the importance of local food production as a response to global sustainability and food security concerns. She emphasizes the critical need for consumers to understand farming, the localization of food supplies to support nearby farmers, and the significant role of government and policy in facilitating a shift towards sustainable and localized agriculture.
As she notes in the video, in her earlier life, she was characterized as a "nut case" but the problems she outlined have only become more acute. A nutritionist turned backyard farmer and author, Joan Dye Gussow, is a tireless and articulate champion for developing localized food economies to benefit eaters, their communities and the environment. Originally published on September 13, 2010.
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Ms. Gussow is still the amazing educator.

[@k9nick]

With the water question in California, they can pipe oil, why not water?

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Because of the volume in question. We use a LOT of water, and it's expensive to pipe uphill, because of the infrastructure and energy. Water is heavy. The vast majority of our water infrastructure is based on letting it run downhill, or using pressure from somewhere even higher to make it go slightly uphill (pipes can get water to the top floor mostly because the main source of water is even higher, so the pipes are pressurized from gravity.)