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Can we take the food we need from the earth, and actually health the earth in the process? That's the core proposition for "sustainable eating" advocates like author Michael Pollan, and advocates of permaculture. We'll explore that question with your help. Check out a video of a 2008 Pollan talk at TED and other resources on this page, including a video of what those who live on Pollan's turf in Berkeley, Calif., eat for lunch and a clickable map showing upcoming speeches by Pollan. Plus, what do you think is the future of food? Take our one-word survey.

The politics of food in Berkeley, Calif., where we asked residents what they eat for lunch and why.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer earlier this week released FoodNYC: A Blueprint for a Sustainable Food System (pdf of entire plan) to the praise of The Village Voice‘s Edible News blog: “Plenty of enterprising politicians have paid lip service to the idea of trying to make the city’s food supply healthier, more easily accessible, and environmentally sound, but far fewer have actually done anything about it.”

On a smaller scale, one family experiments with a diet of sustainable food vs. what a Sacramento News & Report story refers to as “crap food.” Writer Sierra Filucci concludes: “The results were clear: If the sustainable-food movement is to succeed … then it needs to promote fully the idea of shared labor. … [meaning] all adults in a family participate, and participate fully.” And here’s what readers of the article had to say. (Note:  The article first appeared in the East Bay Express and was subsequently picked up by the Utne Reader).