E.45: Giving Back Through Simple Acts

with Natalie Silverstein

Episode Notes:

Natalie is a busy mom of three. She talks about her new book, Simple Acts: The Busy Family’s Guide to Giving Back, and shares:

• The many simple, at-home activities in which parents can engage children in order to instill an easy community service attitude

• What’s the right age to start teaching children about community service…

• The impact of volunteering and service on children; the life skills it builds; the lessons and conversations that emerge from it.

• The empowering and also healing effect of community service for both children and adults.

E.44: The Promise of Food Co-Ops

with Jon Steinman

Episode Notes:

Grocery giants are shaping our food systems, the health of our farms, and the quality of our food. Food co-ops present a powerful avenue for consumers and producers to reclaim their power to shape the health of their communities, their food systems & personal health.

Jon Steinman, author of Grocery Story: The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Giants, touches on:

• How a handful of giant grocers have shaped the continent’s food systems.

• The ways in which co-ops help ensure affordable food, as well as fair food pricing that ensures a sustainable, livable income for farmers.

• How food is inherently intertwined with physical health, community prosperity, and overall community health.

Jon’s book tour is taking him through Vermont this week, and he will be visiting co-ops all over the country in the next few months.