The Food System is unsustainable

Right over the horizon, the same pressures that are threatening financial and gasoline markets are also threatening our food supply. The contemporary food system is inherently unsustainable, and is damaging to the environment. The industrial food supply system from planting, irrigating and harvesting through processing, distribution, and packaging is one of the biggest consumers of fossil fuels and one of the greatest producers of greenhouse gases.

The Price of Food to Skyrocket

Corporate control, environmental threats and energy scarcity are prepared to combine and cause significant food shortages and sharp increase in prices. With all phases of food production dependent on oil, the rapid price increases on the horizon will spell the end of the 2,000 mile plate of food that America now averages.

The Answer: Get Collective Grow your Own.

The Leadership School is developing its Organic Farming infrastructure to be able to teach Organics by early spring 2006, perhaps by fall 2005. Email our office if you have an interest in apply for limited apprentice positions.