Success begets success.  And the good news for school food advocates today is that there are fabulously successful, comprehensive programs all across the country that we can spotlight and model.  Chef Bobo continues to do great things at The Calhoun School in New York, Revolution Foods is expanding their innovative venture, Jamie Oliver has brought [...]

Years ago, when I first approached school administrators about their food policy, I took for granted that logic and science would inform and direct their decisions.  It seemed a fair assumption in light of their thoughtful treatment of other issues - from faculty selection to curriculum development to security policy to athletic schedules.  But while [...]

I’m a mission statement person.  I find that the more work you do at the front end of program development - mission statement, definitions and goals - the easier things flow through implementation.  If you’re entering the school food arena now, the good news is that you’ve got a plethora of thoughtful, nuanced and tested [...]

In human rights work, it’s called the "moment of obligation" - the moment when some story, some person’s pain, some injustice strikes your heart in a way that defines it as your own.  Immediately thereafter comes the realization that you simply must do something about it.
My mom jokes that my first moment of obligation came [...]

Every year Alan and I (and DrGreene.com) give to a number of non-profit organizations. We’re very involved with several of them. In fact between the two of us we sit on the board of five non-profit organizations.
Throughout the year many of our Invited Guest Bloggers here on DrGreene.com Perspectives blog also have strong non-profit ties. [...]

The landscape of children’s health has changed. No longer are our children guaranteed a healthy childhood - not in the face of the current rates of autism, food allergies, diabetes, childhood cancers and obesity. The mission of the AllergyKids Foundation is to inspire change in the health of children by protecting them from chemicals recently [...]

SpontaneousSmiley.com is in partnership with Operation Smile. Spontaneous Smiley is a gigantic art project that lives on the Internet. Thousands of people from dozens of countries photograph and share pictures of the Smiley Face as it appears in everyday objects.  We are working in multiple ways to help Operation Smile fund FRRE surgeries for children [...]

At a recent speaking engagement, a mother ran up to me.  Excited and nearly tackling me, she announced, "I just have to tell you, I read Healthy Child’s new book, and honestly, your advice helped me save my son’s life!"  Her son, only 18-months-old, had constantly battled asthma. Simple tips from Healthy Child Healthy World [...]

I helped to found the Food, Family, Farming Foundation (F3) so my vision for The Lunch Box Project (www.thelunchbox.org) could become a reality.  The Lunch Box is an accessible web portal toolkit, free and accessible for all to use to improve how we feed our children each school day. 

From scalable recipes that are school-tested, to budgeting, [...]

Last weekend, I found myself unexpectedly weeping at a sustainable agriculture conference. A session on helping farmers’ markets accept food stamps started with part of the 1968 documentary "Hunger in America," which showed a tiny, premature baby literally dying of hunger… in our own country. This TV show triggered outrage that led to big and [...]