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 Joan
Dye Gussow is the Mary Swartz Rose Professor Emeritus
of Nutrition and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University
and former head of the Nutrition Education Department. From 1980
to 1983, Dr. Gussow served on the Diet, Nutrition and Cancer Panel
of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1984, she was simultaneously
appointed to the Board of the National Gardening Association and
to the Food and Nutrition Board of the NAS -- a symbolic reflection,
she felt, of her professional goal of linking food growing to
nutrition science. She just completed a five-year term on the
National Organic Standards Board where she worked to help shape
the regulations that will determine the quality of foods USDA
certified as organic.
She is author, coauthor or editor of a number of articles and
several books, including Disadvantaged Children: Health Nutrition
and School Failure (with Herbert Birch), 1970; The Feeding Web:
Issues in Nutrition Ecology, 1978; The Nutrition Debate (with
Paul Thomas), 1986; “Chicken Little, Tomato Sauce and Agriculture:
Who Will Produce Tomorrow's Food?,” 1991, and “This
Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader, 2001.”
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 Nell
Newman launched Newman's Own Organics: The Second Generation
with business partner Peter Meehan in 1993. Great products that
happen to be organic is the company's motto. She is the President
of the company, which started as a division of Newman’s Own
and has been an independent company since 2001. Nell’s responsibilities
are in the areas of product development and marketing.
The daughter of actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Nell had
an early introduction to natural foods at their rural Connecticut
home. The family had a garden, raised chickens, and Nell was taught
to cook by her mother, as well as spending many hours fishing with
her father. While in college, she continued to experiment in the
kitchen, and is still the designated chef when home for family holiday
dinners.
Nell attended the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine,
graduating with a B.S. in human ecology. She worked briefly at the
Environmental Defense Fund in New York, but, preferring a more rural
environment, moved to Northern California. She was the Executive
Director of the Ventana Wilderness Sanctuary, which was working
to reestablish the bald eagle in central California. After two and
a half years, she left Ventana Wilderness Sanctuary and began fundraising
for the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group.
Nell's commitment to organic foods and sustainable agriculture led
her to convince her father to let her establish an organic division
of Newman's Own. She won him over by creating a completely organic
Thanksgiving dinner, and then suggesting organic food products for
the Newman's Own line. "All of Newman's Own products are ones
that Dad enjoys, so we choose ones that he really loves," states
Nell. She credits her parents, too, with teaching her by example
to be socially responsible, politically involved, and philanthropic.
Nell’s thoughts on how to make a difference are highlighted
in her book, The Newman’s Own Organics Guide to a Good Life:
Simple Measures That Benefit You and the Place You Live (Villard,
2003), written with science writer Joseph D’Agnese. It is filled
with realistic, practical advice on why living a more environmentally
conscious life helps us all.
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 Duane
Sorensen, Roast Master, Owner Stumptown Coffee
Duane Sorensen has been in the specialty coffee industry for more
than 12 years. A job as a Barista led to a coffee roasting apprenticeship,
and his current passion for searching for and roasting the finest
and most unique coffees on the planet. Duane opened Stumptown in
1999, after honing his trade at Lighthouse Roasters in Seattle and
Café Calabria in San Diego. Today, locals and visitors alike
go around the block or out of their way to enjoy the rich, freshly
brewed coffee roasted by Duane and available is three shops, or
by the bean in select retailers. Duane greets everyone he can, remembering
the names of patrons as readily as he remembers the origins of his
coffees.
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 Jon
Bansen, Organic Valley dairyman
Jon Bansen and his wife, Julianne, manage an organic
dairy farm in Monmouth, Ore. Their farm consists of 240 registered
Jersey cows and 350 acres, the bulk of which is in organic pasture.
As a dedicated grass-based farmer, Jon concentrates on pasture management,
relying on the ideal coastal climate to provide lush pastures for
his cows. He also is committed to reducing off-farm inputs, utilizing
integrated pest-management techniques, such as swallows, as innovative
fly control. Jon’s farm was the first organic dairy farm to
be featured on the front cover of Hoard’s Dairyman, the dairy
industry’s monthly magazine. Jon became an Organic Valley farmer-owner
in 2000. Organized in 1988, the Organic Valley cooperative today
is made up of 633 organic farmers in 16 states. It’s the only
national organic brand that is 100-percent farmer-owned and proudly
the only independent national organic dairy in the United States.
Stewards of the earth who use nature as their teachers, Organic
Valley farmers produce 130 delicious organic products.
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 Bob
McKeehen
What can we say? Bob is a man with an opinion on just about everything. |
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