| Check this out - the Vice President of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (who gave out sewage sludge as "free organic compost" to San Francisco residents) is now the Executive Director of Alice Waters' Chez Panisse Foundation.
Her bio from SFWater.org:
Francesca Vietor is Vice President of the Commission. She served as President of the City's Commission on the Environment from 1997 to 1999 and as Director of the Department of the Environment from 1999 to 2001. In 2003, she co-founded 1000 Flowers, a non-partisan non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to registering and mobilizing women to vote across the country. She has worked for many nonprofit organizations, including Rainforest Action Network, Greenpeace, Island Press, and CARE Madagascar.
She currently runs an environmental consulting firm, Ecoworks, with current contracts at Commonweal, an environmental health nonprofit in Marin County, and the Green Schools Initiative, a Berkeley-based NGO bringing environmental practices to schools in the state. She serves on several boards, including Friends of the San Francisco Public Library (spearheading the greening of the library initiative), the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, Slide Ranch, and Bioneers. She is also pursuing a Bachelor's in Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts while she raises her three-year-old daughter with her husband, writer Mark Hertsgaard.
From her background, she looks like a strong environmentalist and a friend of sustainable food. So what does she think about SFPUC's decision to give sewage sludge to unsuspecting gardeners under the guise of organic compost? |
