Restore Green Movement - Alliance for Green Schools & Communities

We still have an opportunity to put a new Secretary of Agriculture in place who is committed to sustainability. It will only happen if you sign the petition on the following web site. The petition just passed 30,000 and we need to keep in going strong in the next couple of days to impress the Obama transition team with the strength of our voices.

See Nicholas Kristof's piece in today's NY Times supporting the petition.

Sign the petition to Obama to select a sustainable Secretary of Agriculture at http://www.fooddemocracy.org

"...With this in mind, we are offering a list of leaders who have demonstrated a commitment to the goals that you articulated during your campaign and we encourage you to consider them for the role of Secretary of Agriculture. The Sustainable Choice for the Next U.S. Secretary of Agriculture

- 1. Gus Schumacher, Former Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Former Massachusetts Commissioner of Agriculture.

- 2. Chuck Hassebrook, Executive Director, Center for Rural Affairs, Lyons, NE.

- 3. Sarah Vogel, former two-term Commissioner of Agriculture for the State of North Dakota, attorney, Bismarck, ND.

- 4. Fred Kirschenmann, organic farmer, Distinguished Fellow, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Ames, IA and President, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, Pocantico Hills, NY.

- 5. Mark Ritchie, current Minnesota Secretary of State, former policy analyst in Minnesota’s Department of Agriculture under Governor Rudy Perpich, co-founder of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

- 6. Neil Hamilton, attorney, Dwight D. Opperman Chair of Law and Professor of Law and Director, Agricultural Law Center, Drake University, Des Moines, IA."