Updated 5/15 - Steve Cohen of the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability gives credit to the many volunteers involved
Updated 5/5 - Portland Mercury reports on the planting ceremony with photos

All around town, gardeners’ spring sprouts are pushing through the soil and, as first reported in last week’s Oregonian, Portland City Hall will be joining in [...]

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Photo courtesy of Flickr user chalkdog
If you want proof that kids already know right from wrong, just look to Madison, Wisconsin, where fourth-grade students organized to take a stand against the poor school lunch program. As told by Slow Food USA, the students of Nuestro Mundo Elementary School planned to share a home-cooked meal as [...]

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What is this “oneness,” you ask? It’s community, it’s participation, it’s equality, it’s tradition, and it’s environmental awareness. Frankly, it has a lot in common with our mission here at Slow Food. And it’s also the guiding principle of the Global Oneness Project, an initiative to promote meaningful change in our world by documenting and [...]

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