There’s Food, Not Bombs! There’s a Garden on the White House Lawn!

He listened! Obama listened!

We chanted during PowerShift’s march on the Capital Coal Plant and even later that night outside of the While House calling for “Food, Not Bombs! Plant a Garden on the White House Lawn!” It sounded good, and I remember seeing the lights go on in an upstairs window as we sang late at night, but maybe that was just a twinkle in the White House’s eye.

Either way, I just learned that Obama did plant a nice big vegetable garden on the White House lawn in March, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s Victory Gardens, and things are coming up golden. They’ve 90 pounds of food, enough produce for the White House kitchens and local soup kitchens as well. Good and always with honor have released a detailed map of the White House Garden – let’s hope more people follow suit, eating as locally as physically possible, their own backyards!

1 Response to “There’s Food, Not Bombs! There’s a Garden on the White House Lawn!”

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1 Andrew Jul 1st, 2009 at 4:15 pm

I walked past the White House the other day, and saw that there is indeed a garden, and it is doing quite well. A 90 lb. garden on the White House lawn, however, doesn’t outweigh high-tonnage bombs that are the hard-fist of an imperial agenda with a new figure head. I like organic gardens, but we shouldn’t be too congratulatory over cosmetic changes.

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Caroline is passionate about ensuring an safe climate future for all peoples on the planet, and believes that many solutions already exist to address poverty, increase equity, and improve environmental quality while also reducing climate change. This year, she's working with the global youth climate movement to ensure that youth voices at COP15 are coming from all over the world and that the youth voice is not only heard but seen through positive action. A French-American, but also a global citizen, Caroline grew up in Connecticut and has worked in six continents on climate related issues, and now lives, works with, and loves the Indian Youth Climate Network. She directs the Climate Solutions Project, an initiative to create, communicate and celebrate youth-led and grassroots solutions to climate change, in order to scale up these solutions and build the confidence necessary to ensure a great deal in Copenhagen. On the side, Caroline likes making climate art - rapping about climate action, photographing disappearing flowers, building sustainable dance floors, working with filmmakers to document youth initiatives worldwide, and creating dance flashmobs to spread the message of 350!