Podcast appearances and mentions of paula daniels

Today, Repast welcomes Kim Kessler, the Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention and Tobacco Control at the New York City Department of Health, Dipa Shah Patel, the Director of the Los Angeles County Public Health Department's Nutrition and Physical Activity Program, and Paula Daniels, the Director of the L.A. County Office of Food Systems. Kim, Dipa, and Paula join Diana to discuss how agencies within municipalities can work together to reduce chronic disease.  This conversation was sparked by a strategy released by the New York City Health Department in January of this year titled Addressing Unacceptable Inequities: A Chronic Disease Strategy for New York City—a multiagency strategy that addresses the root causes of chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and screenable cancers, and outlines proposals and interventions to reduce the incidence of chronic disease. Kim Kessler is the Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention and Tobacco Control at the New York City Department of Health. Dipa Shah Patel is the Director of the Los Angeles County Public Health Department's Nutrition and Physical Activity Program.  Paula Daniels is the Director of the L.A. County Office of Food Systems. Diana Winters is the Deputy Director of the Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy at UCLA Law. You can find Addressing Unacceptable Inequities: A Chronic Disease Strategy for New York City here. You can find the L.A. County Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Report here. As always, you can send questions or comments to Diana Winters at winters@law.ucla.edu. 

The food systems expert talks to Mark about The Center for Good Food Purchasing, which she co-founded ten years ago—and about her new role at the LA County Office of Food Equity, a new coalition of people working on good food availability with a commitment from the county. Plus, the two discuss the definitions behind good, sustainable, and fair food. Are you liking Food with Mark Bittman? Got feedback? We'd love it if you'd take our (brief) survey: http://bit.ly/foodwithmarkbittman-survey. Thanks for listening!Subscribe to Food with Mark Bittman on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen, and please help us grow by leaving us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts.Follow Mark on Twitter at @bittman, and on Facebook and Instagram at @markbittman. Want more food content? Subscribe to The Bittman Project at www.bittmanproject.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I talk with  PAULA DANIELS, Co-Founder, Chair of the Board of the Center for Good Food Purchasing, and recently announced initial director of the Los Angeles County Office of Food Equity, which aims to address the root causes of food-system problems in the region. We talk about what it takes to pull together elements of business, entrepreneurism, politics, government, science, and more to move the needle on a huge and complex system. The Center uses the power of procurement to create a food system that prioritizes the health and well-being of people, animals, and the environment. As its goals and standards are adopted by a growing national network of major food purchasers such as school districts, the program exerts growing leverage on the larger food system in America. You can learn more at GoodFoodPurchasing.org 

People's foundation for physical and mental well-being starts with access to fresh air, clean water, and nutritious food. Meeting these basic needs allows us to be healthier today by avoiding hunger, exhaustion, disease, and injury. It also means we are more likely to thrive tomorrow by supporting our ability to withstand adversity. The mid-20TH century was a turning point in the American food system, ushering in a precipitous decline in farm populations. With the shift toward highly consolidated, vertically integrated, and industrially efficient agriculture came a rise in obesity, a loss of agricultural biodiversity, and a rise in nitrate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions due to concentrated methods of farming and animal rearing. Listen in as Ricardo Salvador, Union of Concerned Scientists and Paula Daniels, Center for Good Food Purchasing overview the building blocks of our food system. - What are the legacies of the food system we've inherited? - What is the current state of our food system? - What are the pivotal moves we can make in our food system for thriving together? Learn More: ThrivingTogether.US: https://thriving.us/building-blocks/food/ Center for Good Food Purchasing https://goodfoodpurchasing.org Union of Concerned Scientists: https://www.ucsusa.org

  Clubhouse is a drop-in audio chat network that now includes conversations about the food system, on Farm To Table Talk.  The Center for Good Food Purchasing uses the power of procurement to create a transparent and equitable food system that prioritizes the health and well-being of people, animals, and the environment. Paula Daniels is the Co-founder and chair of the Center,  developing nationally-networked adoption and implementation of the Good Food Purchasing Program by major institutions. The result is good news for local farmers and communities across the country  from the direct connections with sustainable and regenerative food sources for their schools, hospitals and public administrations. The conversation with Paula Daniels begins in a podcast that wanders in to the Farm To Table Talk Clubhouse to be joined by other  food system pioneers. www.goodfoodpurchasing.org #Clubhouse

In this episode of Repast, Diana Winters interviews Paula Daniels on Los Angeles food policy, the L.A. Food Policy Council, which she founded, the Center for Good Food Purchasing, and a forthcoming book, True Cost Accounting for Food: Balancing the Scale, that she edited and in which she has a chapter.  Paula and Diana discuss true cost accounting, which Paula distills with the following Oscar Wilde quote:“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.  And a sentimentalist . . . is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.”For more on true cost accounting, listen now.  Diana Winters is the Deputy Director of the Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy at UCLA Law. Paula Daniels is Co-founder and Chair of the Center for Good Food Purchasing, a social enterprise non-profit founded in July of 2015 as a national spin-off from the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, which Paula founded in 2011.   You can pre-order True Cost Accounting for Food here.     Music by Ike Winters.  

Have you ever wondered why hunger in America is such a persistent problem, despite all of the volunteer hours, money, and yes, food, that nonprofits throw at it every year? If so, this episode will drop some much-needed knowledge on you. Robert Egger is a nonprofit icon, speaker, and activist who founded DC Central Kitchen as well as LA Kitchen. He has won a Humanitarian Award from the James Beard Foundation, been named one of LA Weekly’s People of the Year, as well as an Oprah angel, and one of the ten most caring people in America by the Caring Institute. In this candid, passionate, and far-ranging conversation we cover his decades-long career in the food nonprofit space. We discuss why charities so often fail to make lasting change and how we can finally break out of band-aid solutions to poverty and hunger and create real and lasting positive changes that help everyone. A Note From Imperfect: As a friendly heads up, this episode contains a fair amount of profanity, so be advised if that's not your thing or you're listening with young children. Episode Show Notes:Learn more about Robert Egger on his website and his more current and NSFW home base fuckingshitup.org. Check out his book, "Begging For Change." Robert referenced the classic James Brown song "I don't want nobody to give me nothing." Even though the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act actually encourages businesses to donate food, many businesses still worry they'll be liable if someone gets sick after eating donated food. Robert is a huge fan of José Andrés and his work with World Central Kitchen.Robert admires Paula Daniels, co-founder, and chair of Good Food Purchasing. Robert's go-to karaoke song is "Wild Thing" by the Troggs.

When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in the United States, the existing inequities and vulnerabilities of our food systems were starkly exposed. Join Dr. Wendy Slusser as she chats with co-founder and "Chief of What's Next" at the Center for Good Food Purchasing, Paula Daniels, about how we can meet this moment to make transformative progress in our food systems.

COVID-19 has revealed many weaknesses about the US food system: 14 million children are now regularly missing meals while farmers are dumping millions of pounds of food, and COVID-19 death rates are higher among people with food-related illnesses such as diabetes. Dr. Roy Steiner and Paula Daniels, co-contributors to Reset the Table, a new report from the Rockefeller Foundation, talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about these failures and propose solutions to fix the supply chain, close gaps in healthy food access, and keep food workers safe.

Today on “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Dani interviews Didier Toubia, Co-Founder and CEO of Aleph Farms. Then, she talks with Paula Daniels, Co-Founder, Chair of the Board, and Chief of What’s Next at the Center for Good Food Purchasing. Dani and Didier discuss how the present and future of cultivated meats and how Aleph Farms is driving that movement. They also talk about why cultivated meats may be the way of the future and how they benefit human health, animal welfare, and the environment. Then, Dani and Paula discuss how the Center for Good Food Purchasing is supporting sustainable food purchasing at institutions, especially public schools, across the United States. They talk about how food purchasing by large institutions influences the entire food chain and how institutional policy changes can benefit entire communities. While you’re listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts.

Show notesPaula's favorite movie that informs her work [0:02:41]Paula's mentor: Dorothy Green [0:05:20]How Paula originally got involved in environmental work [0:06:56]What did Paula learn from Dorothy? [0:10:45]Being against something vs being FOR something [0:13:35]LAFPC's origin story & what was it like for Paula when the policy passed? [0:14:56]Keeping the light alive & finding the others [0:20:35]The moment that almost killed it all [0:24:49]What did Paula feel when it suddenly became real? [0:26:38]Where is the Center for Good Food Purchasing today? How'd it get here? [0:30:30]How should someone think about working with many types of stakeholders? [0:33:35]"I saw people yelling at a junior staffer, as if he didn't have feelings. So I stood up there and told the story of this human being...sometimes people in government are seen for their role and not for their person." [0:36:40]How does Paula coach somebody to be effective working with people who are different than they are? [0:37:20]Case study: How Paula got the city of LA to change their thinking on stormwater [0:39:00]"Usually it's fear-based thinking. They don't want to mess up. So they're worried about something. If you can figure out what that something is, give them examples of how it's handled differently, then you can start making a difference." [0:40:25]How do you redirect a culture or group of people? [0:41:39]Why government & entrepreneurs is like baseball & surfing [0:42:13]The circular economy: what's catching Paula's attention? [0:44:33]Why is this the time to engage with the idea of the circular economy? [0:49:48]How does Paula teach people to be a systems thinker? [0:53:08]Paula's monthly whiteboard review exercise [0:54:04]Polarity management [0:56:13]How does Paula design an intervention? [1:02:52]What lights Paula up? [1:10:28]Quotes & mantras that inspire Paula [1:11:59]"You're always on the edge of your own invention. And every moment has that opportunity." [1:13:56]People, books, companies, resources etc mentioned in episodePaula: @PaulaADanielsCenter for Good Food Purchasing - @center4goodfoodLA Food Policy CouncilDorothy GreenHeal the BayLA Unified School DistrictUS Conference of MayorsDana Gunders - NRDCBooksCradle to CradleThe UpcyclePolarity ManagementThinking in Systems - Donella MeadowsSimon Wardley — strategy mapping drafts & value-chain mapping intro talkBlinkAshoka FellowsAdvice from a Caterpillar, by Amy GerstlerWall-EBlade Runner"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." (Anna Karenina)CA Bay-Delta AuthorityThe circular economyMayor Antonio Villaroigosa"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." "Luck comes to the prepared mind.""The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."Jonathan GoldAquaculture

I talk with PAULA DANIELS, Co-Founder, Chief of What’s Next, and Chair of the Board of the Center for Good Food Purchasing, about what it takes to pull together elements of politics, government, business, entrepreneurism, science, and more to move the needle on a huge and complex system. The Center uses the power of procurement to create a food system that prioritizes the health and well-being of people, animals, and the environment. As its’s goals and standards are adopted by a growing national network of major food purchasers such as school districts, the program exerts growing leverage on the larger food system in America. You can learn more at GoodFoodPurchasing.org

In this first season of the Visionary Voices podcast, co-hosts Megan Bucknum and Hannah Mellion sit down with three nationally known and respected food systems leaders and mentors to learn about their personal leadership journeys, seek their advice for creating change, and discuss the value of partnership, mentorship, and leadership. In this episode, we hear from Paula Daniels, Co-founder and Chair of the Center for Good Food Purchasing. In her own words, Paula’s journey to co-create this now national organization was “not your typical path.” From her years as an attorney, to those spent working on water policy and in public service, it was the constant and deep connection to her Hawai’ian culture, her family, and the land that ultimately led her to where she is now. This episode goes beyond one woman’s (huge!) impact on local food systems and teaches us why “learning to surf” can help you capitalize on ideas, create effective and dynamic initiatives, and continue to be invigorated as you ride the waves inherent in this challenging work. The Visionary Voices podcast was developed by the Wallace Center’s Food Systems Leadership Network.

Chefs Collaborative was founded in 1993 as a non-profit network focused on inspiring, educating and celebrating chefs and food professionals dedicated to working towards a better, more sustainable food system. For their 8th Annual Chefs Collaborative Summit, Growing Community – Owning the Future, food professionals from across the country gathered in Atlanta, GA on Saturday, September 9th - 11th for workshops, networking and engaging discussions on issues such as ethical seafood practices, food waste, meat matters and solutions for the future of sustainable food. Heritage Radio Network was there to capture the sights and sounds of the summit’s prominent speakers at an event hosted by New York Times food correspondent, Kim Severson. In part one of the summit, attendees heard from Paula Daniels (Co-Founder of the Center for Good Food Purchasing), Martha Mendoza (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Seafood from Slaves), and Tunde Wey (author of Blackness in America). We also caught up with Alice Rolls (Executive Director of Georgia Organics). 0:08 – Kim Severson, New York Times (moderating throughout) 0:45 – Piper Davis, Grand Central Bakery 6:15 – Steven Satterfield, Miller Union 7:58 – Judith Winfrey, PeachDish 15:48 – Paula Daniels, Center for Good Food Purchasing 43:11 – Martha Mendoza, Pulitzer Prize Winning AP Reporter 59:30 – Tunde Wey, Blackness in America, and Julia Bainbridge, Atlanta Magazine 1:30:38 – Alice Rolls, Georgia Organics

Today on Eating Matters we will be talking all about the need to shift the current food system model, lessons we can learn from other sectors like energy, transportation and water already engaged in modernizing their systems, and how institutional food procurement is one of the most effective intervention points to do so. Joining us to do so is Paula Daniels. Paula is Co-founder and Chair of the Center for Good Food Purchasing, a social enterprise non-profit founded in July of 2015 as a national spin off from the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, which she founded in 2011. She is a public policy leader in environmental food and water policy, and is currently serving as an appointee of Governor Brown to the California Water Commission.

With half the world's population now living in just 1% of the land area, urban poverty is a growing problem. We head to a gathering of leading global thinkers at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre, to explore practical and innovative ways to tackle the issue. Quentin Cooper is joined by population expert Purnima Mane, anthropologist professor Francis Nyamnjoh, former president of a chain of ethical grocery stores Doug Rauch, and food and water policy expert Paula Daniels. (Photo: Comuna 13 Shantytown Colombia. Credit: Raul Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images)

This week on Eating Matters, host Kim Kessler is on the line with Paula Daniels, the founder of the Los Angeles Food Policy Council (LAFPC), a policy based collective impact initiative of food system leaders working toward an environmentally sustainable, equitable and regionally based food system. Discussing the current drought in California, Paula shares the outlook from the agricultural perspective and details the overall crop production throughout the state and how it affects water consumption. With almond farming taking up nearly ten percent of California’s water resources, for example, Paula suggests aquaculture as an alternate farming practices that could perhaps be an eventual fix to such droughts. Aquaculture, the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks and aquatic plants, has potential to not only be economically viable but also to support local food systems. After the break, Kim and Paula talk about the Los Angeles Food Policy Council’s key project, the Good Food Purchasing Policy, which harnesses the purchasing power of major institutions to encourage greater production of sustainably produced food,healthy eating habits, respect for workers’ rights, humane treatment of animals and support for the local business economy by providing new opportunities for small and mid-sized farmers and job creation along the supply chain. Tune in to hear more from Paula and the LAFPC’s many accomplishments. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery. “Most of the water in California in the north, most of the demand is in the Central Valley and in the south, in Los Angeles… so we’ve been moving water around the state for nearly a century now.” [5:33] “The issue with the tree crops is that they are permanent so they function in a way that we call hardening the water supply so you can’t fallow tree crops, you have to pull them out… so it’s a big economic loss if you have to do that.” [6:58] —Paula Daniels on Eating Matters

This week on Eating Matters, host Kim Kessler takes on the topic of healthy retail access, opening up the show with her roundtable discussion. Welcoming Cathy Nonas, Denis Stearns, and Paula Daniels, the group discusses timely topics in the food policy realm. Cathy is the Senior Advisor to the Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention & Tobacco Control at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene while Denis is a founding partner of Marler Clark, LLP, PS, a Seattle-based law firm with a national practice devoted to the representation of persons injured by unsafe food and drink. Paula Daniels is the founder of the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, a policy based collective impact initiative of food system leaders working toward an environmentally sustainable, equitable and regionally based food system. After the break, Kim speaks with Sabrina Baronberg and Clare Fox to gain their insights on healthy retail access. Sabrina is the Senior Director of the Food and Nutrition Programs at Public Health Solutions, a nonprofit organization that develops, implements and advocates dynamic solutions to prevent disease and improve community health. Likewise, Clare is the Director of Policy and Innovation for the Los Angeles Food Policy Council. Tune in to learn the ins and outs of healthy retail access from a plethora of experts around the country. This program was brought to you by The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board. “There’s a lot of value [in urban agriculture] including when people are able to grow their own food they have a different relationship to it, and I think, eat differently” [4:59] —Paula Daniels on Eating Matters “It’s really important when we’re talking about food retail access to think about all the different facets of access. There’s convenience, there’s affordability, there’s attractability, there’s inventory, there’s merchandising, so it’s not just having things available.” [20:07] —Sabrina Baronberg on Eating Matters