IE Network Conference Workshop

Transportation Workshop

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Location: Underground Room in the basement.

Session 1 - 4:30-5:00 PM, Session 2 - 5:10-5:40 PM, Session 3 - 5:50-6:20 PM

Title of Session:

Fossil Fuels and the Food Connection

Petroleum is linked to every aspect of factory-style food production. Inexpensive oil has allowed the proliferation of cheap foods. As a direct result of the artificially low price of producing these goods, the American consumer has come to expect low prices at the grocery store. Food grown and produced this way is not sustainable, nor does it reflect the true cost of the product. Find out how oil percolates its way into your shopping cart and what you can do about it!

Presenter:

Margaret Mittelstadt, Outpost Natural Foods Cooperative

Margaret Mittelstadt is the Director of Communications for Outpost Natural Foods Cooperative. Margaret graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in 1989. Prior to her work with Outpost, Margaret worked as a Green products researcher for the Wisconsin Green Building Alliance and for Solterra Studios, an award-winning green design firm in Thiensville, WI. She has also served as academics director for the Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies in Boulder, CO. Margaret currently serves as the consumer representative for the Wisconsin Organic Advisory Council, through the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, is a community partner for the Lindsay Heights Neighborhood Health Alliance and is communications committee chair and marketing member for Our Milwaukee local business alliance and is on the development committee for Life Essentials, a non-profit organization that encourages sustainable growing practices in third world countries. She has previously served on the Board of Directors for Wellspring, Inc., a non-profit, biodynamic, organic Community Supported Agriculture enterprise in West Bend, WI.