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She then “used that hashtag over the next several hours to really just love on black people, and pretty quickly thereafter myself and Alicia spoke and said we need to build this out as a project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cullors, #BlackLivesMatter is an affirmation that embraces the resistance and resilience of black people. 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It is also a rallying cry to defend black life and create successful black futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"L to R: Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza, and Patrisse Cullors co-founded #BlackLivesMatter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848115\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L to R: Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza, and Patrisse Cullors co-founded #BlackLivesMatter. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Patrisse Cullors)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A movement began to bubble up, as videos suggesting the use of excessive police force on unarmed black men went viral. There was the death of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/19/nyregion/staten-island-man-dies-after-he-is-put-in-chokehold-during-arrest.html?_r=0\">Eric Garner\u003c/a> and then the fatal shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/08/10/339334625/st-louis-police-black-teen-shot-in-altercation-with-officers\">Michael Brown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to mention, the deaths of black women like \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/us/in-detroit-protests-of-shooting-of-woman-who-sought-help.html\">Renisha McBride\u003c/a>, who was shot on the porch of a suburban home when she sought help after she had car trouble, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/21/424909760/death-of-woman-found-hanged-in-texas-jail-cell-will-be-investigated-as-murder\">Sandra Bland\u003c/a>, who was found dead in her jail cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly people all over the world were talking about Black Lives Matter and using the hashtag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what about all the other people who face law enforcement violence — who don’t have a video. 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When a server is working to get the most money from tips, “you are basically encouraged to objectify yourself,\" she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some argue that the customer’s power to tip brings better service, but Jayaraman disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sadly, the studies show that tipping is correlated to workers’ skin color, hair color, eye color, breast size, gender, race,\" she says. \"And that actually there's no correlation between better service and tipping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If customers are unhappy with their service, Jayaraman says they should tell the management, similar to the recourses available in other customer service industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this industry, somehow we think that we as customers not only should have the right to implicate a worker's wages through our power of tipping, but determine whether they eat that day, whether they can feed their kids that day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"RdCVHwgE2T1Gf8P94w6FwhQgWV4Ki7Wh\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman says we can avoid this mess by giving all workers an equal minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, along with six other states, has one minimum wage regardless of profession. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman wants to eliminate that gap between the standard and lower minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before getting into that, she says you need to know the history of tipping in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tipping actually originated in Europe as a vestige of the feudal system,” Jayaraman says, “It was a superior giving money to an inferior.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When wealthy U.S. citizens traveled to Europe in the mid-1800s and returned home, they attempted to show off their worldliness by tipping. But Americans weren’t having it. They called it un-American and elitist. The sentiment was so strong that by the early 1900s, six states (Arkansas, Iowa, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Washington) actually passed anti-tipping laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Not only is this a vestige of the feudal system, it is a legacy of slavery.'\u003ccite>Saru Jayaraman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>While an anti-tipping movement also grew in Europe, it “was squashed here in the States by the restaurant industry and the Pullman train company,” says Jayaraman. She says both industries \"wanted the right to hire newly freed slaves and not pay them anything and let them live on customer tips.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These train porters and maids worked long hours loading luggage and serving passengers. They eventually unionized and won a full salary. But restaurant workers -- many of whom were also former slaves -- didn’t organize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That history really educated us about the fact that not only is this a vestige of the feudal system, it is a legacy of slavery,\" Jayaraman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a federal law that requires employers to make sure tipped workers are making the standard minimum wage through both salary and tips, and if not, to supplement their income so that they do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if that's the case, what's wrong with the minimum wage status quo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are plenty of laws on the books that really aren't enforced, and this is one of the biggest,\" Jayaraman says. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 16 percent of restaurant workers make below the minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some restaurant workers are at mid- to high-end restaurants, \"in fact 70 percent of tipped workers are women who largely work at places like IHOP and Applebee's and Olive Garden.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This overrepresentation of women leads to another tipping-related challenge: sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman says women in these jobs “suffer from the absolute worst sexual harassment of any industry in the United States.” She says it’s embedded in the culture, from customers to management. When a server is working to get the most money from tips, “you are basically encouraged to objectify yourself,\" she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some argue that the customer’s power to tip brings better service, but Jayaraman disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sadly, the studies show that tipping is correlated to workers’ skin color, hair color, eye color, breast size, gender, race,\" she says. \"And that actually there's no correlation between better service and tipping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If customers are unhappy with their service, Jayaraman says they should tell the management, similar to the recourses available in other customer service industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this industry, somehow we think that we as customers not only should have the right to implicate a worker's wages through our power of tipping, but determine whether they eat that day, whether they can feed their kids that day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman says we can avoid this mess by giving all workers an equal minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, along with six other states, has one minimum wage regardless of profession. Jayaraman and her team have researched how one minimum wage has impacted these states. Their findings are promising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We as a state are faring better on every measure than the 43 states with lower wages for tipped workers,\" Jayaraman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says California and the other states -- Alaska, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington -- have higher restaurant sales per capita and higher job growth in the restaurant industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Jayaraman's mission is to get the rest of country to sign on.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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That’s like buying five bags of groceries and then leaving two of them at the store. Gunders wrote a book called “Waste Free Kitchen Handbook,” which is full of these sorts of facts about food waste and gives tips on how to cut down on wasting food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gunders says it’s become sort of “posh” in America to throw away food, but it wasn’t always this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are certainly wasting more food -- about 50 percent more of it -- than in the 70s,” she said. “This is a real change in attitude. (D)uring World War II, there was a huge campaign not to waste food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This included posters around the nation encouraging people to save food, she said. “The posters would say say things like food is a weapon, let’s save it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/CbPmkFW5gg0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>World War II may be over but that doesn’t make food any less valuable. Gunders wants us to think about the resources it takes to deliver food to our tables. 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Having grown the food, they’ve learned to value it more, Gunders said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When kids see how much it takes to grow a broccoli, they’re much more willing to eat it,” Gunders said. “And they’re less excited about throwing it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Gunders if she thought there was more “germophobia” around our food today, because I've seen more and more people who think sharing food is unhealthy because it spreads germs. So ... better for your friend to throw out his half-eaten bowl of spaghetti than for you to eat it, is the thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think overall we do have more fear of our food than we used to,” Gunders said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, people think you have to throw out food after their expiration dates. In fact, expiration dates are manufacturer suggestions for when the food is at its freshest. 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It’s a place where food is largely grown for export outside the region, not for the folks who actually live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food Commons is the brainchild of a farmer who has brought some radical ideas into agriculture, Santa Cruz strawberry grower Jim Cochran. “Good food is not just for yuppies,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of our \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/big-think\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Big Think”\u003c/a> series, we’ve been asking innovative Californians to share their big ideas in 10 words or less. Cochran’s Big Think, though, has a second part: “To grow it, can it, and sell it, all community owned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/237171203″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cochran has long believed that the people who pick and package our food should own a stake in the business, and labor under good working conditions. That’s all been part of his vision ever since he started \u003ca href=\"http://www.swantonberryfarm.com/\">Swanton Berry Farm\u003c/a>, California’s first organic strawberry farm, nearly 30 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swanton was the first organic farm in the U.S. to sign a union contract with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/\">United Farm Workers union\u003c/a>, or UFW. A big picture of Cesar Chavez hangs on the wall of his farmstand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10790090\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10790090 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People stop at Swanton's Farm stand to buy organic berries, veggies, and pies, using the honor system - a box where they put in money and make their own change. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People stop at the Swanton farmstand to buy organic berries, veggies and pies, using the honor system — a box where they put in money and make their own change. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cochran says consumers sometimes have a “complete misconception” that if they are eating organically, they’re supporting better pay or working conditions for farmworkers. “It’s not just about small farms, and it’s not just about organic. Really it’s about good business practices, and good farming practices,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Other ranchers should treat their workers like this, too, if they want them to stay.’\u003ccite>Pedro Venega\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Like paying farmworkers to take care of their physical health. Before the sun rises at Cochran’s farm just north of Santa Cruz, farmworkers get ready to plant strawberries in a misty field. They greet the dawn by warming up with calisthenics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cochran brought in a kick-boxing trainer to help his farmworkers stretch their muscles before a day of digging and bending in the dirt. The rows of berries are also planted higher than most farms, so the workers don’t have to stoop so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10790087\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10790087\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworkers at Swanton Berry Farm warm up by doing stretching and calesthenics each morning, to prevent injury while stooping and bending in the fields.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworkers at Swanton Berry Farm warm up by doing stretching and calesthenics each morning, to prevent injury while stooping and bending in the fields. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of Cochran’s employees get health insurance. Like Pedro Venegas, who’s worked here six years. “Other ranchers should treat their workers like this, too, if they want them to stay,” Venegas explains in Spanish, as he shovels clods of heavy dirt. “If they don’t care about their employees, they don’t give them health insurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, all the employees get a little bit of stock in the company, becoming part owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farming can bring in some pretty thin margins. So how does Cochran afford to pay those benefits?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”qkftUnLFN2SKhDcTFFPxKS4N8l8Uj7Gv”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We grow the product, we package it, we distribute it, we process it, and we retail it. We make our own jam out of our own strawberries and out of our own other products. And we sell it directly,” he explains. “I’ve chosen to put that efficiency and that extra margin into paying slightly better wages and quite significantly greater benefits to the employees. Instead of pocketing that myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With The Food Commons, Cochran wants to expand that vision beyond his farm — to transform entire food systems in communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the person who is picking carrots winds up owning some stock in the company that is farming,” Cochran explains. “They also own a little bit of share of the grocery store, and the processing plant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fresno there’s a real need for food access and decent wages: More than a quarter of residents here live below the poverty line. They’re starting with the mobile pop-up markets and the produce delivery boxes. They’re also planning to open a storefront in a low-income neighborhood, where they’ll package and sell local products like jam and veggies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10790089\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10790089 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"West Fresno residents take home free veggies in exchange for taking a survey about how much they'd pay for a veggie box. “We really have the opportunity to build something special with food commons, “says Food Commons Fresno Manager Kiel Schmidt. “It will be owned by the community, it will create wealth for the community, while it's also improving their health.” \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Fresno residents take home free veggies in exchange for taking a survey about how much they’d pay for a veggie box.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.foodcommonsfresno.org/\">Fresno Food Commons\u003c/a> manager Jenny Saklar says they chose to start the pop-up markets in west Fresno because it was recently highlighted by the state EPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This Zip code of 93706 in west Fresno is the least healthy place to live in all of California,” she says. “In terms of pesticide use, and highest asthma rates, and proximity to toxic sites, this community has all these layers added on top of not having these fresh fruits and vegetables to eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other local managers are working to realize Cochran’s vision. The workers and community members would all be part owners, and the food would be priced somewhere between Whole Foods and the local mini-mart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not aiming for the boutique market,” says Cochran. “We’re aiming to produce not necessarily heirloom tomatoes, just really good tomatoes. Not fancy broccoli, just good broccoli.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might be skeptical that folks with limited resources will pay a little more after trying really good broccoli. But a lot of Cochran’s crazy ideas have made good sense. Like going organic when no one else would.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/237171203″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/237171203″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cochran has long believed that the people who pick and package our food should own a stake in the business, and labor under good working conditions. That’s all been part of his vision ever since he started \u003ca href=\"http://www.swantonberryfarm.com/\">Swanton Berry Farm\u003c/a>, California’s first organic strawberry farm, nearly 30 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swanton was the first organic farm in the U.S. to sign a union contract with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/\">United Farm Workers union\u003c/a>, or UFW. A big picture of Cesar Chavez hangs on the wall of his farmstand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10790090\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10790090 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People stop at Swanton's Farm stand to buy organic berries, veggies, and pies, using the honor system - a box where they put in money and make their own change. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People stop at the Swanton farmstand to buy organic berries, veggies and pies, using the honor system — a box where they put in money and make their own change. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cochran says consumers sometimes have a “complete misconception” that if they are eating organically, they’re supporting better pay or working conditions for farmworkers. “It’s not just about small farms, and it’s not just about organic. Really it’s about good business practices, and good farming practices,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Other ranchers should treat their workers like this, too, if they want them to stay.’\u003ccite>Pedro Venega\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Like paying farmworkers to take care of their physical health. Before the sun rises at Cochran’s farm just north of Santa Cruz, farmworkers get ready to plant strawberries in a misty field. They greet the dawn by warming up with calisthenics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cochran brought in a kick-boxing trainer to help his farmworkers stretch their muscles before a day of digging and bending in the dirt. The rows of berries are also planted higher than most farms, so the workers don’t have to stoop so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10790087\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10790087\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworkers at Swanton Berry Farm warm up by doing stretching and calesthenics each morning, to prevent injury while stooping and bending in the fields.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworkers at Swanton Berry Farm warm up by doing stretching and calesthenics each morning, to prevent injury while stooping and bending in the fields. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of Cochran’s employees get health insurance. Like Pedro Venegas, who’s worked here six years. “Other ranchers should treat their workers like this, too, if they want them to stay,” Venegas explains in Spanish, as he shovels clods of heavy dirt. “If they don’t care about their employees, they don’t give them health insurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, all the employees get a little bit of stock in the company, becoming part owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farming can bring in some pretty thin margins. So how does Cochran afford to pay those benefits?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We grow the product, we package it, we distribute it, we process it, and we retail it. We make our own jam out of our own strawberries and out of our own other products. And we sell it directly,” he explains. “I’ve chosen to put that efficiency and that extra margin into paying slightly better wages and quite significantly greater benefits to the employees. Instead of pocketing that myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With The Food Commons, Cochran wants to expand that vision beyond his farm — to transform entire food systems in communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the person who is picking carrots winds up owning some stock in the company that is farming,” Cochran explains. “They also own a little bit of share of the grocery store, and the processing plant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fresno there’s a real need for food access and decent wages: More than a quarter of residents here live below the poverty line. They’re starting with the mobile pop-up markets and the produce delivery boxes. They’re also planning to open a storefront in a low-income neighborhood, where they’ll package and sell local products like jam and veggies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10790089\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10790089 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"West Fresno residents take home free veggies in exchange for taking a survey about how much they'd pay for a veggie box. “We really have the opportunity to build something special with food commons, “says Food Commons Fresno Manager Kiel Schmidt. “It will be owned by the community, it will create wealth for the community, while it's also improving their health.” \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Fresno residents take home free veggies in exchange for taking a survey about how much they’d pay for a veggie box.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.foodcommonsfresno.org/\">Fresno Food Commons\u003c/a> manager Jenny Saklar says they chose to start the pop-up markets in west Fresno because it was recently highlighted by the state EPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This Zip code of 93706 in west Fresno is the least healthy place to live in all of California,” she says. “In terms of pesticide use, and highest asthma rates, and proximity to toxic sites, this community has all these layers added on top of not having these fresh fruits and vegetables to eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other local managers are working to realize Cochran’s vision. 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"content": "\u003cp>From Silicon Valley to Hollywood, Californians lead the world with big ideas. For the latest installment of our \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/big-think\">Big Think\u003c/a>\" series, we meet Rick Doblin. He heads a nonprofit that sponsors research into the use of LSD and MDMA to treat mental illness. His Big Think?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There should be thousands of psychedelic psychotherapy clinics all over the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the future, Doblin believes anybody with anxiety, depression, marital problems or a fear of snakes could be treated with a drug trip\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doblin came of age in the early '70s, right when President Richard Nixon declared America’s war on drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Marijuana! The burning weed with its roots in hell,” says the ominous voiceover in the much-parodied 1930s film, \"Reefer Madness.\" “Smoking the soul-destroying reefer, they find a moment’s pleasure. But at a terrible price: Divorcery! Violence! Murder! Suicide! And the ultimate end of the marijuana addict -- hopeless insanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doblin remembers watching the film as a joke when he was a teenager. But some of the same messages meant to scare young people away from pot in the '30s were recycled in the '70s to create fear around psychedelics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbjHOBJzhb0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In high school I remember thinking drugs like LSD were terribly dangerous and that they would make you crazy,” Doblin says. “The education that I got was that if you took LSD more than a few times, you were going to be certifiably insane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Doblin got to college, he tried LSD. A lot of it. And it changed his life. He dropped out of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was way out of balance, overdeveloped intellectually, underdeveloped emotionally and spiritually,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/235407650\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He embarked on a crusade to make psychedelics legal in the U.S., and in the mid-1980s started a nonprofit called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.maps.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies\u003c/a> (MAPS), now based in Santa Cruz, to further research into the benefits of psychedelics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I started feeling like this was a tool that could bring me into balance, I realized this was a tool that could bring society back into balance,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, his group has permission from the FDA to research new treatments for mental disorders using LSD, a hallucinogenic, and MDMA, commonly known as Ecstacy, or E, which induces feelings of euphoria and empathy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doblin's group is currently studying the use of MDMA to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among war veterans and social anxiety in autistic adults. It's also studying how LSD can help ease the dying process for the terminally ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"SBuKcFfcFUl10eaE3jLxypudVQBRJHE9\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The treatment protocol is highly structured and, Doblin believes, replicable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a male-female co-therapist team. People are receiving MDMA around 10 in the morning. It goes till 6 at night or so,” he says. “Then people are required to spend the night in the treatment center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, the patient and therapist talk for hours about the drug trip. They check in every day over the phone for the next month. Doblin says this post-trip therapy is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don't do that integrative work, then -- like dreams you don't pay attention to -- they fade away and you don't benefit from really learning and growing from them,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doblin says one that day there will be a network of these psychedelic psychotherapy clinics around the world. And LSD and MDMA will be used to treat a range of anxieties and phobias, even a fear of spiders or fear of flying. Eventually, he says people with no formal diagnosis will be able to try them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmXJo8xeb5c\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that these clinics will eventually expand to treat people that have just an interest in personal growth or spiritual experiences or couples therapies,” he says. “Couples therapy is one of the best uses for MDMA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plenty of other cultures use psychedelics to promote personal growth. People in Brazil and Peru use ayuhuasca, a plant-based psychedelic brew, for spiritual quests and healing rituals. Native Americans use peyote in religious ceremonies. Doblin says kids and adolescents are sometimes involved. He remembers going to a Navajo wedding where a 9-year-old boy participated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He stayed up all night. They gave him small doses of peyote,” he says. “These are cultures that have successfully integrated psychedelics. They are good examples of what we can do in a Western culture. They don’t have young people going off and abusing peyote and abusing ayuhuasca.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We need honest drug education, not crude propaganda that kids these days can easily see through.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That is precisely what critics of Doblin’s work say would happen if he succeeds in opening a network of psychedelic clinics. That would only encourage kids to do drugs and tune out of society, critics say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Doblin disagrees. He says the prohibition mentality of today’s anti-drug campaigns doesn’t work. He calls public service announcements implying teenagers will end up in the hospital from half a hit of Ecstasy (MDMA), or decline into utter mental instability after trying LSD, exaggerated and dishonest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are ridiculous attempts at creating fear. They exaggerate the negative and deny the positive,” he says. “We need honest drug education, not crude propaganda that kids these days can easily see through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not that Doblin thinks it should be a free-for-all. He says the way kids usually take drugs \u003cem>is\u003c/em> dangerous. Drugs are often impure and people are taking them in unsupportive environments, like dance clubs, surrounded by other people who are high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they think they’re doing it only for fun and only for recreational purposes, and something serious comes up, then they’re unprepared for it,” Doblin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doblin has three kids, ages 20, 19, and 17. Watching them go through extensive driver's education training has inspired another big idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to take a course, you have to pass a test. They have to do 10 hours of driving with their parents in the car, all different things,” he says. “So the question is, should there be some similar model like that for young people, for anybody who wants to have legal access to psychedelics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says his clinics will be the ideal place where people can get training in how to take psychedelics responsibly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would feel more comfortable if people had their first psychedelic experience under supervision, and then they could get a license and buy it and do it on their own,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Doblin’s clinical protocol, a three-month course of psychedelic-assisted therapy would include three drug trips and cost about $10,000. 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He and his wife Laura launched ESRI 46 years ago in a small Redlands storefront after graduating from Harvard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We lived like church mice,” says Dangermond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqZf9ByLXSw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Dangermond still comes to work every day, too. An ESRI employee says she still signs every paycheck and sits in on every employee interview she can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s a lot of interviews. ESRI employs over 3,000 people across the globe, though most are still based at the sprawling, pastoral ESRI campus in Redlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also where Dangermond launched his career in business, at the nursery and landscaping business his Dutch immigrant father operated for many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My father came from Holland, and he married a second-generation Dutch lady here. He was a gardener and she was a maid. 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They bring in geographic science and they lay out the design for what they're going to grow. It’s problem-solving in a spatial domain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the kind of mapping that you have on your phone that keeps you from getting lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GIS essentially mashes up dense layers of geographical and other data to create computer-friendly interactive maps that work like digital guides or forecasting tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10761389\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/big-think-walking.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10761389 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/big-think-walking-800x489.jpg\" alt=\"Screen grab from an ESRI mapping software program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/big-think-walking-800x489.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/big-think-walking-400x244.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/big-think-walking-1440x880.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/big-think-walking.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/big-think-walking-1180x721.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/big-think-walking-960x587.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen grab from an ESRI mapping software program. \u003ccite>(ESRI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Think of it like overlaying plastic maps digitally. When you overlay plastic maps you might just have a mess, looks like spaghetti or something,” says Dangermond. “But we digitize these data sets, overlay them and then computationally look at the relationships and the patterns between the different layers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of GIS mapping can help cities around the globe determine where to locate schools, based on population density and other factors. It can help farmers figure out where to plant crops so they get the best yields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Soils and slopes and climate and water availability, I might weight these different factors and say grow a certain crop here,” explains Dangermond. “And it will make a map for me that will show the best place to grow it and the worst ways to grow it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same software that ESRI charges farmers, businesses and government agencies thousands of dollars for, the company donates to public schools and nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think over 5,000 nonprofits around the world,” says Dangermond. “Some big ones are like the Nature Conservancy. Small ones are some watershed organizations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year Dangermond donated about $11 million to the Audubon Society to, among other things, help it forecast the effect of climate change on several hundred bird species over the next century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10761398\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/BIG-THINK-Lunar.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10761398 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/BIG-THINK-Lunar-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Screen grab from ESRI digital mapping software program. \" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/BIG-THINK-Lunar-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/BIG-THINK-Lunar-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/BIG-THINK-Lunar-1440x950.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/BIG-THINK-Lunar.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/BIG-THINK-Lunar-1180x779.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/BIG-THINK-Lunar-960x634.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen grab from ESRI digital mapping software program. \u003ccite>(ESRI )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And last year ESRI pledged $1 billion worth of mapping software to public schools as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education/k-12/connected\">President Obama’s Connected program.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s now a push to get ESRI software into the hands of public health agencies in vulnerable parts of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like Ivory Coast and Myanmar so they can track diseases,” says Dangermond, who recently visited World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, to observe ESRI software in action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I went into their control room where they have been working for the last 12 months on Ebola, watching the spread and emergence of this crippling disease,\" he says. “They are mapping the patterns and the changes that are occurring daily in the Ebola spread.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mapping, says Dangermond, has essentially helped corral Ebola into a box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“\u003c/em>Geographically speaking,” he says. “By locating where the hospitals should go, setting up quarantine areas and other resources using maps and geography as a framework.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there’s one thing that surfaces throughout my conversation with Jack Dangermond, it’s an expectation he has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a hope that the mapping software he pioneered amid the orange groves of a quaint little Southern California town will somehow help create a better world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We sort of blindly expect it to work out, and right now it’s not working out so well,” says Dangermond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I read the [news] this morning. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We lived like church mice,” says Dangermond.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/PqZf9ByLXSw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/PqZf9ByLXSw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Laura Dangermond still comes to work every day, too. An ESRI employee says she still signs every paycheck and sits in on every employee interview she can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s a lot of interviews. 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They bring in geographic science and they lay out the design for what they're going to grow. 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