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Historic Illinois Legislation
By Michael Dimock

On June 7th, the Illinois Legislature passed a history-making bill, HB 1300, entitled the Food, Farms and Jobs Act, which creates the Illinois Local and Organic Food and Farm Task Force and empowers that body to deliver by the fall of 2008 the Illinois Local and Organic Food and Farm Plan.
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Michael's Review of the First Planning Fellows Session
Below you will find a correspondence that Michael Dimock, Executive Director, sent to the ROC Stewardship Council immediately following the first Planning Fellows Session.

May 18, 2007
Council Members,
I wanted to give you a very brief, but fresh update on the results of the first retreat session of the Planning Fellows, which ended yesterday the 17th of May and began on Tuesday the 15th. We spent 21/2 days at the Center for Land Based Learning, which is 19 minutes west of Davis on the boundary between Yolo and Solano counties.
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Network Blog
Michael Dimock, Executive Director
A sustainable food system is the basis for a sustainable civilization. It is fundamental and requires a public focus way beyond that which it currently holds. To create such a system in this state by 2030 will require unprecedented collaboration and unprecedented investment. Exactly how to make that happen no one I know can yet say. The previous work of Roots of Change's (ROC) with the both the Vivid Picture and Leadership projects and the work of countless other organizations from which ROC has learned have provided important clues, recommendations, and indicators. But these are still only ideas, hypotheses and emergent strategies. It is reasonable that the path remains unclear at this moment because the idea of transforming such a fundamental system through a conscious and organized statewide effort is unprecedented.


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