Supporters
Supporters have donated services and time towards the planning of Slow Food Nation. We thank them for their generosity.
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City of San Francisco
Mayor Gavin Newsom and the city of San Francisco are dedicated to promoting sustainability policies and practices. Slow Food Nation is possible because of the city’s tireless support of the event. Scroll down this page for a list of all the city agencies participating in Slow Food Nation. To read more about Mayor Newsom’s commitment of Slow Food Nation, please read his letter of support.
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Albertson Design and futureprüf
Albertson Design is responsible for the Slow Food Nation brand identity and design, and in partnership with web developers futureprüf, designed and programmed this web site. Together, they form a full-service branding and design team, providing customized print and web applications to clients including Showtime Networks, Charles David Shoes, HP, Chow, and Make Magazine. -
Food & Wine Trails Epicurean Tours
Food & Wine Trails is a Santa Rosa-based epicurean tour company that takes participants off-the-beaten-track, providing educational opportunities that engage all the senses. They aim to satisfy each person’s curiosity, palate and love of travel. -
Eleanor Bertino Public Relations
Eleanor Bertino Public Relations specializes in San Francisco Bay Area and national media for fine restaurants, artisan food products, and sustainable agriculture initiatives. Eleanor Bertino was a founding member of Slow Food Nation and serves on the board of Slow Food USA.
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Stanlee R. Gatti Designs
Stanlee Gatti is a pioneer of event design, one of just a handful around the world who has revolutionized the vision, form and function that tailor today’s A-list events. Stanlee Gatti has assisted Slow Food Nation with outreach and fundraising.
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Istituto Italiano di Cultura
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura (IIC) of San Francisco is the cultural office of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Its mission is to promote Italian culture by organizing cultural events such as art exhibits, concerts, film festivals, lectures, book presentations, poetry readings, and more. The San Francisco office was founded in 1978, while there are 90 other IICs present throughout the world. -
FORA.tv
There are brilliant ideas, expressed everyday in public discussions and events, all over the world. Don’t miss them. FORA.tv delivers discourse, discussions and debates on the world’s most interesting political, social and cultural issues, and enables viewers to join the conversation. It provides deep, unfiltered content, tools for self-expression and a place for the interactive community to gather online. -
Alain Pinel Realtors
Alain Pinel Realtors is the preeminent purveyor of luxury homes in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have a proven record of success in handling luxury real estate, an impressive history of business professionalism and a solid reputation for superb client service. At Alain Pinel Realtors, where we live, quality extends to people, not just products. Experience the APR difference for yourself – visit apr.com. -
Sustainable Ventures
Join us at Pricing the Food on the Table, a Forum open to all conscious eaters! Participate in producing the “Special Price of the Day”—a true cost priced meal. If we can price a meal using the true costs of every activity and ingredient that every diner can understand, we enroll a broad, diverse body of engaged consumers. By engaging people to use their vast purchasing power to create a sustainable food system and marketplace, we can recapture the ownership of the sources and practices of our sustenance, grow vital communities, and heal our land and biosphere—one selection at a time. -
Fruit Guys
The FruitGuys is the industry leader in providing farm-fresh produce to the American workplace. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in San Francisco, The Fruitguys has pioneered this fast-growing category that provides viable solutions to the ever-challenging workplace health crisis. The company was founded on the premise that bringing healthy brain food to the office can boost productivity, improve wellness and help companies improve their bottom lines. -
New Resource Bank
New Resource Bank is an innovative community bank in San Francisco that looks to deliver a new standard of customer service while building sustainable resources. New Resource Bank has become one of the fastest growing new banks in its market by providing value added banking and financing solutions to green businesses and for green projects. The roots of the bank include founding shareholders who are organic and natural foods industry pioneers, upon which the bank has grown an active practice to support great sustainable foods businesses and entrepreneurs. -
Haven Bourque/Straus Communications
Haven Bourque is Partner and Vice President at Straus Communications, a media relations group specializing in food, environment and community. Her work at Straus includes strategic counsel for clients focusing on the environmental and humanitarian impacts of the food system, including restaurant pioneer Bon Appetit Management Company, solar energy provider Sunlight Electric, and cage-free egg company Egg Innovations. Haven is a member of the San Francisco Professional Food Society and SLOW Food, and advises on communications for the worker-owned green business cooperative WAGES. -
Sub-Zero Wolf Appliances
Sub-Zero refrigerators, freezers and wine storage units are the definitive kitchen components. Made by hand. Tested to the nth degree. With innovative dual refrigeration. Built to the same exacting standards, Wolf cooking instruments help give the fullest expression to your love of good food and the pleasure of preparing it. Wolf fuels your passion for cooking. -
Kaiser Permanente
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Scott Chernis, Photographer
Scott first picked up a camera in New Orleans while attending Tulane University. What began as a passion for jazz and the culture that makes New Orleans unique has evolved into a career. An interest in the culinary arts has led him to work with a number of restaurants and chefs, including a soon to be released book. While shooting jazz from his San Francisco base, Scott continues to return to New Orleans to document its rich musical traditions. His work has appeared in print and digital media worldwide. Pilgrimages to the farmers market feed his children and his interest in local, sustainable food.
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Prestige Media
Prestige Media, Inc (PMI) is the largest and most experienced media company focusing exclusively on advertising opportunities in the ferry industry. PMI provides uniquely targeted advertising programs to marketers through its national network of poster display media placed on-board ferryboats and in ferry terminals serving major metropolitan area commuters and passengers traveling to resort destinations.
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Richard J. Greenstone, Attorneys & Counselors at Law
Richard J. Greenstone, Attorney’s & Counselors at Law, is a San Francisco based law firm practicing copyright, trademark, trade secret, licensing, business, and transactional law for the computer, entertainment, publishing and wine industries.
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In Ticketing
In Ticketing is a premiere technology company providing ticketing and e-commerce solutions for events worldwide. In Ticketing services make it easier, quicker and cheaper to buy tickets and get into events, enhancing both the client and consumer experience. In Ticketing is also an official green business and the first ticketing agency to develop tree planting initiatives - resulting in the planting of hundreds of thousands of trees to date.
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Greenbelt Alliance
Since 1958, Greenbelt Alliance has been protecting the Bay Area’s greenbelt of natural areas and farms, and making the region’s cities better places to live.
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Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT)
MALT is a coalition of ranchers and environmentalists who aim to preserve farmland in Marin County, California.
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Marin Organic
Marin Organic is a cooperative association of Marin County organic producers whose livelihood is based on a respect for nature and a sense of place.
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Aya Brackett Photography
Aya Brackett is a photographer based in Berkeley, California. Her work has appeared in galleries, in the permanent collection of the Crocker Art Museum, and numerous publications including Gastronomica, Dwell and the London Sunday Telegraph Magazine.
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Severine von Tscharner Fleming
Severine von Tscharner Fleming is a filmmaker, activist and agrarian based in Brooklyn, NY and the Hudson River Valley. She is the founder of the Society for Agriculture and Food Ecology (SAFE) at UC Berkeley and is currently directing a film about the emerging social movement of young farmers in the U.S.
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Chelsea Green
For nearly 25 years, Chelsea Green has been the nation’s leading independent publisher of books on the politics and practice of sustainable living, and we are a publishing partner and U.S. distributor for Slow Food USA. Among our sustainable food titles are the Slow Food Guides to San Francisco, New York, and Chicago, The Atlas of American Artisan Cheese by Jeff Roberts, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved by Sandor Katz, Full Moon Feast by Jessica Prentice, Sharing the Harvest by Elizabeth Henderson, and most recently, Renewing America’s Food Traditions edited by Gary Paul Nabhan. -
U.S. Pure Water Corp
U.S. Pure Water Corp./‘The Water Store’ has been serving the drinking water and water treatment needs of businesses & individuals throughout the Bay Area since 1985. Our emphasis is to provide a delicious, ecological & economical alternative to bottled water by providing drinking water equipment which treats water at the point of use (i.e. your kitchen sink, your break room at work, or the grocery store where you shop), rather than at a treatment plant hundreds of miles away. This eliminates fuel intensive delivery of heavy bottles, and the need to dispose of plastic bottles. Our technicians remain abreast of industry developments and are happy to help you make informed decisions about your drinking water. Please feel free to call 800-776-7654 or 415-883-9900 or email at mdwater@uspurewater.com with any questions you may have.
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San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is a department of the City and County of San Francisco that provides water, wastewater, and municipal power services to San Francisco. Under contractual agreement with 28 wholesale water agencies, the SFPUC also supplies water to 1.6 million additional customers within three Bay Area counties. San Francisco’s tap water - pristine snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada Mountains - is some of the purest, safest and best tasting water in the world. -
Zipcar
Zipcar is the world’s leading car-sharing service with 225,000 members and 5,500 vehicles in urban areas and college campuses throughout 26 North American states and provinces as well as in London, England. As a leader in urban transportation, Zipcar offers more than 30 makes and models of self-service vehicles by the hour or day to savvy city residents and businesses looking for an alternative to the high costs and hassles of owning a car in the city. For more information, visit www.Zipcar.com. -
2 Twigs and a Bay Leaf, Leslie Lavitt
~ A Sustainable, Community Based Florist ~ It’s a “green” idea that 2 Twigs & a Bay Leaf capitalizes on. It’s what great chefs ask, much like food and wine, taking your cue from Mother Nature’s seasonal bounty. What is readily available in my garden, my friends and neighbors’ gardens? We produce organic, relaxed floral designs while supporting the earth, recycling and reducing fossil fuels by using local materials, mostly what’s in the backyard.
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San Francisco Conservation Corps
The San Francisco Conservation Corps (SFCC) is a non-profit job and academic training organization serving young people ages 18-26. Corpsmembers develop their job and academic skills, leadership abilities and environmental awareness by completing outreach, conservation and community service projects throughout the city. -
Dharma Merchant Services
Dharma Merchant Services is a merchant service provider, enabling businesses to accept non-cash payments such as credit and debit cards. Their intention is to provide these services in a manner that reflects a genuine respect for the people we serve and the planet we live on.
We would like to additionally thank:
- Office of Economic and Workforce Development www.sfgov.org
- Department of the Environment www.sfgov.org
- Mayors Office On Disability www.sfgov.org
- San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department www.sfgov.org
- Golden Gate National Recreation Area www.nps.org
- City of San Francisco Public Health Department www.sfgov.org
- San Francisco Police Department www.sfgov.org
- San Francisco Fire Department www.sfgov.org
- Herbst Theater www.sfgov.org
- Hiram W. Johnson State Office Building and The Milton Marks Conference Center (State Building) www.courtinfo.ca.gov
- National Parks Service www.nps.gov
- San Francisco County www.sfgov.org
- Department of Public Health www.dph.sf.ca.us
- Environmental Health Section www.sfdph.org
- Friends of the Urban Forest www.fuf.net
- Atherton Appliances www.athertonappliance.com
- Kombucha Botanica www.kombuchabotanica.com
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NOV. 15 AND NOV. 22: COMMUNITY DAYS
Come to the Victory Garden on Nov. 15 and Nov. 22 for events that build community through food.