Oh, the whiplash

Submitted by Michael on Tue, 03/30/2010 - 08:41

Yes, readers, you have a right to be confused. The name on the blog is "Sustainably," but pretty much everything I write these days is on food, food policy, obesity, and addiction. As I've written before, there are parallels, but even so, what happened to the sustainability stuff?

And then comes a post like this one, after at least a couple of dozen "off-topic" posts! But I'm just going to live with the dissonance for now, and figure out what to do later. So, anyway...

MIT puts on a fabulous conference, as well they should, and the 2010 Sustainability Summit (note: m-i-t is part of the term!) is scheduled for April 23. This year's event, the second, is organized around the need to communicate and collaborate to advance the cause.

Hundreds of participants are expected — last year's had more than 300 professionals, students, and speakers. Peter Senge, founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning, will give the keynote speech. Session topics will include green marketing, agriculture, life cycle analysis, recycling, and fair trade, all of which are titillations for the fellow I'm becoming, stranger that he is.

The event goes from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive. Registration page here.

Speaking at Commonwealth Club

I will be speaking on the topic of food addiction at the Commonwealth Club of California, the oldest public affairs forum in the country, on Feb. 28. I'll be joining a fabulous panel of researchers and clinicians: Nicole Avena of Princeton and the University of Florida, Eric Stice of the Oregon Research Institute, Vera Tarman of Renascent Center of Toronto, abd Elissa Epel and Andrea Garber, both of the University of California at San Francisco. I am very excited to be part of the roster, not to mention to be appearing at such a great institution. Ticket information here; if you come, please stay afterward to say hello.

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