NRDC Announces 2013 Growing Green Award Winners

Mary Vincent & Tezozomoc

NRDC announced the winners of the 2013 Growing Green Awards, NRDC’s annual celebration of the nation’s most dynamic food leaders, and I was very lucky to meet them all. Winners include the following, and an NRDC video is below telling their stories.

· Young Food Leader Brianna Almaguer Sandoval (PA): addressing food access by infusing urban areas with fresh produce in corner stores.

· Food Producer Russ Kremer (MO): tackling antibiotic resistance. 

· Food Justice Leader Tezozomoc (CA): empowering marginalized communities with sustainable food equity and access projects.

· Business Leader Larry Jacobs (CA): championing business innovation in toxic-free organic agriculture.
I asked Larry about some of his latest work, and he's working on Semiochemistry which is finding ways to increase good insects.

Additionally, a special NRDC Forces for Nature award was presented by Nell Newman, co-founder and president of Newman’s Own Organics, to Susan Clark, Executive Director of the Columbia Foundation, to honor her career-long efforts to advance the cause of sustainable food and agriculture in California and across the country. Susan has roused a robust and growing philanthropic community around the connections between food, health and the environment for more than two decades.

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