From: Stewart Brand <sb@...>
Subject: [SALT] Genetically engineered organic TUESDAY July 28 (for forwarding)
To: salt@...
Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 12:11 PM

Pamela Ronald is the head of a plant genetics lab at UC Davis; Raoul Adamchak teaches organic farming there. They're married (with kids), and they coauthored Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food.

In the book, they wrote: "To meet the appetites of the world's population without drastically hurting the environment requires a visionary new approach: combining genetic engineering and organic farming."  Agriculture has been a revolutionary biological science for 10,000 years---husbanding soil, tweaking the genes of the food crops. This is the next stage.

"Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future" Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak, Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco, 7pm, Tuesday, July 28. The show starts promptly at 7:30pm. Admission is free---if there's room. To be sure of a seat, become a Long Now member and reserve a seat or order an advance ticket ($10).

Some SALT talks have overflowed, and latecomers had to be turned away. To head off the problem, here's the  arrangement:

• Long Now Members can reserve a seat +1 guest HERE (Use the discount code listed in your email and on the Events tab on the Long Now Member's site.)
• You can purchase tickets for $10 HERE

• There is room for 100 walk-ups (60 seats) for the free simulcast in the Lobby - this is a separate line, so get there early.
• Members and Ticket holders: if you arrive after 7:25 we may not be able to seat you in the theater.
• All tickets and Member RSVP's are Will-Call and can also be ordered over the phone from Brown Paper Tickets.
• Please allow time for traffic, parking, walking to the theater and check-in.

Talks coming up:

Aug. 17 (Mon.) - Wayne Clough, "Smithsonian Forever"

Sep. 14 (Mon.) - Arthur Ganson, "Machines and the Breath of Time"

Oct. 9 (Fri.) - Stewart Brand, "Rethinking Green"

Nov. 18 (Wed.) - Sander van der Leeuw, "The Archaeology of Innovation"

Dec. 4 (Fri.) - Rick Prelinger, "Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4"

Jan. 13 (Wed.) - Wade Davis, "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World"

Feb. 24 (Wed.) - Alan Weisman, "World Without Us, World With Us"

Mar. 4 (Thurs.) - Beth Noveck, "Transparent Government"

Apr. 1 (Thurs.) - David Eagleman, "New Tech, New World"

High-quality videos of the talks and other benefits (such as guaranteed seats) are available to Long Now members. Membership, which costs $8/month ($96/year), helps support the series and other Long Now projects. Joinable here.

This is one of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT) organized by The Long Now Foundation. Free audios and my summaries of all previous talks are available for download here (or stay up to date with the Podcast here).  If you would like to be notified by email (like this one) of forthcoming talks, go here to sign up online. Any questions, contact Danielle Engelman at Long Now--- 415-561-6582 x1, danielle@....

You are welcome to forward this note to anyone you think might be interested.

                                        --Stewart Brand

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