| | | NPSG12-143 | | Healthy Metropolitan Food Systems Speakers: Dan Carmody, President, Detroit Eastern Market; Malik Yakini, Executive Director, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network; Ashley Atkinson, Director of Urban Agriculture and Openspace, The Greening of Detroit; Michael Sands, Senior Associate, Liberty Prairie Foundation Growing food is an act of empowerment that can build neighborliness, provide experiential learning, improve health residents' health, and promote social justice. Local food production, processing, and distribution can help improve access to healthy and nutritious food in underserved areas while increasing job prospects for residents with a wide variety of skill sets. Panelists share their wide variety of experiences in restoring vitality to metropolitan food systems in Chicago and Detroit. | | MP3 | | $10.00 | | $10.00 | |
| | | NPSG12-150 | | Advancing an Agenda for Healthy, Equitable, and Sustainable Environments in California Speakers: George Flores, MD, Program Manager, Community Health, The California Endowment; Richard J. Jackson, MD MPH, Professor/Chair, Environmental Health Sciences; Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Urban Planning, UCLA; Carl Anthony, Co-Founder, Breakthrough Communities (invited); Paloma Pavel, PhD, Co-Founder, Breakthrough Communities; Autumn Bernstein, Director, ClimatePlan; Jeremy Cantor, MPH, Program Manager, Prevention Institute; Kendra Bridges, Land Use Policy Director, Sacramento Housing Alliance; Azibuike Akaba, Community Technical Assistance Coordinator, Neighborhood Environmental Indicators Project' Patty Ochoa, Environmental Health Coordinator, Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles, CA; Steve Padilla, Principal, AQUARIUS GROUP, INC.; Genoveva Islas-Hooker, MPH, Regional Program Coordinator , Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program This session focuses on current and emerging opportunities to advance healthy, equitable, and sustainable environments across California. We will explore activity at the state (Health in All Policies), regional (Sustainable Community Strategies), and local (Building Healthy Communities) level with an emphasis on sharing of promising approaches among leaders from a diversity of California communities. | | MP3 | | $20.00 | | $20.00 | |
