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I am giving a lecutre on “food politics, nutrition, and sustainable food production” at 4:30 pm, at the Campus Center as the final lecture in a year-long series on “The Hungry Mind.”  Open to public.

I am the 2011 recipient of the National Public Health Hero Award given by the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and will make brief remarks.  Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 6:00 reception.

IACP regional conference.  Panel discussion on “what’s happening in the food world.”

This is a talk at a symposium in honor of the retirement of Martijn Katan on “Evidence-based nutrition: When is evidence proof?”  My talk is on “The politics of evidence-based nutrition.”  This will be at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, beginning at 11:30 am.

My seriously glamorous virtual avatar is being interviewed by Jay Ackroyd tonight at 9:00 p.m. EST on Second Life.    We are talking about food politics and food safety, among other topics, and you can tune in and listen on blog talk radio.

Engaging the University in Urban Agriculture

Panel: Pam Koch, Marion Nestle, Fabio Parasecoli, William Solecki, Mark Gregory Robson, Jaime Stein.

Moderator: Josh Viertel

6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

The New School, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center

2 West 13th Street (corner 5th Avenue), NYC

I will be giving a short presentation at this annual meeting of the awkwardly named “Private and Public, Scientific, Academic, and Consumer Food Policy Committee” at the JF Kennedy School.

This event is for the Berkeley student co-ops, where I lived when I was a student.  The event is called “Navigating food choices in today’s economy: a dialogue with Marion Nestle and Narsai David.”  7:00 p.m. The David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way.  Reservations at  www.bscaa.org/foodchoices.