New York City Urged To Provide Locally Grown Food
Great little piece on the New York Times’ City Room Blog
This week, Chicago became the first city to pass a green food resolution. Although the resolution is nonbinding, it urges the city to make healthy, locally grown food more available to Chicago residents.
A similar bill calling for the creation of a FoodprintNYC — a play on the Bloomberg administration’s PlaNYC — has been proposed by Bill de Blasio, a Brooklyn councilman who is running for public advocate. The bill would encourage the city’s various agencies to coordinate and establish climate-friendly food policies and programs, as well as a public awareness campaign about the health and environmental impact of food. It draws heavily from recommendations in a report, “Food in the Public Interest,” [pdf] by the office of the Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer.
