Food panel at UNE's Global Day of Action for Climate Change focus of news story

The Journal Tribune on Oct. 26, 2009 published a story on a panel discussion on local food and corporate agriculture that was part of UNE's Global Day of Action for Climate Change. One of the ways people can be part of the solution to the climate change problem is to buy their food locally, said Tom Hams, the owner of Wolf Pine Farm in Alfred. Buying locally cuts down on the need to transport food from long distances, said Hams, and smaller farms also rely more on human labor rather than carbon spewing machinery. The panel was one of more than a dozen events that were held at UNE's Biddeford and Portland campuses Oct. 24th, ranging from a film on the bottled water industry to a presentation on the  new energy bill to a panel discussion about local foods.

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