Climate Justice and Olive to Bottle Milling Event

Climate Justice. Anne Petermann, Executive Director of the Global Justice Ecology Project, explains why climate change is an environmental justice problem, and why we need more comprehensive, inclusive solutions than we can expect from the upcoming climate change summit in Copenhagen. Her organization facilitates New Voices on Climate Change, amplifying unheard ideas. To learn more about climate justice, check out Mobilization for Climate Justice, whose website links to related organizations.

Olive to Bottle Mobile Milling Event at UC Davis. The UC Davis Olive Center hosted the Olive to Bottle Mobile Milling Service at UC Davis on Tuesday, December 1st. The event took place off of Hutchinson road in the olive orchards. At the event, Local Dirt interviewed Andy Robinson of Prospero Equipment Corporation, David Garcia-Aguire from Olive to Bottle, Nicole Sturzenberger from the UC Davis Olive Center, Kevin Rogers from Olive to Bottle, and Harben Taber and Jean Chevalier of Taber Ranch. The audio portion also features Dan Flynn from the UC Davis Olive Center. Olive Press is the mill that Taber Ranch currently uses to mill olives; Mike Madison's ranch is the mill the UC Davis Olive Center will be using to mill olives for the '09 harvest.

Use the player below to hear the show. Click on "divShare" to download the mp3.

Announcements:

- The Davis Feminist Film Festival is seeking film submissions. For more info, click here.

Music Playlist:

"Drunken Sailor" by Dan Zanes & His Band (Old Town School of Folk Music, Vol. 1 on Bloodshot)

"Young Emily" by Doug and Jack Wallin (Family Songs & Stories on Smithsonian Folkways)

"Stars of Leo" by M. Ward (Hold Time on Merge)

The Enorosi Oliomatic 700 in action - the brown tube is the olive
paste, the spicket on the left is dispensing the fresh-pressed olive oil

Mark Robinson - Owner/Operator of Olive to Bottle
Dan Flynn - Director of the UC Davis Olive Cener

- Olive Art -
Kevin Rogers - Master Miller, Olive to Bottle

UC Davis Olives - ready to be pressed by the mobile milling service