Pea Power

Pea Power: Researchers Discover a Hidden Energy Source Inside Peas

Waste by Tristram Stuart

With shortages, volatile prices, environmental disasters and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem - or thinks it does. Combining front-line investigation with startling new data, Waste shows how the way we live now has created a global food crisis - and what we can do to fix it.

Food wars

A panorama’ of the modern-day, global food industry to impress on policy makers, decision-makers in the industry, and the public that there are alternatives to the current practices which deliver much unhealthy food and at times leave food shortages in placet. by Tim Lang and Michael Heasman

Making the Edible Landscape

Making the Edible Landscape (IDRC, UNHabitat and ETC): A three-year collaborative project aims to demostrate the value of including urban agriculture as a permanent feature in city planning and housing design.

The oil we eat

Following the food chain back to Iraq

by Richard Manning

Kuminda, il diritto al cibo. Festival del cibo equo e sostenibile

“Tutti gli esseri umani sul pianeta hanno il diritto fondamentale all'accesso e/o alla produzione di cibo in quantità sufficiente al sostentamento proprio e della comunità di cui fanno parte. Tutte le norme e politiche dovrebbero essere allineate nel riconoscimento di questo diritto fondamentale. Ogni governo - locale, regionale, nazionale ed internazionale - ha l’obbligo di garantire questo diritto, insieme a tutte le misure di sostegno necessarie ad esercitarlo. Esso non può essere negato in nome degli interessi del commercio internazionale o per qualsiasi altro motivo”.

GRUBNESS

What is GRUB? 1. grub is healthy, local, sustainable food for all 2. grub is food that supports community, justice, and sustainability 3. grub should be universal

Eat Your Vegetables!

Greg Higgins of Higgins Restaurant and Bar in downtown Portland, OR, talks about using local produce, building community and supporting sustainability.

What is a Freegan?

Vegans are people who avoid products from animal sources or products tested on animals in an effort to avoid harming animals. Freegans employ a range of strategies for practical living based on our principles: Waste Reclamation, Waste Minimization, Eco-Friendly Transportation, Rent-Free Housing, Going Green, Working Less / Voluntary Joblessness

BE AN URBAN CHEF WITH URBAN FOOD

Oliver Rowe set himself a challenge - to run a restaurant in the heart of London, having sourced all his ingredients from within the route of the London. With thanks to Eleonora Bottin www.bbc.co.uk/food/tv_and_radio/urbanchef_index.shtml www.dispenser.rai.it/showB.php?id=2752

Cecilia Canepa parla della Legge del Buon Samaritano

Legge n 155, entrata in vigore il 16/07/2003Disciplina della Distribuzione dei prodotti alimentari a fini di solidarietà sociale

The Future of Food

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There is a revolution going on in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America, a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat.

ZIBALDONE: An elegant realm of architectural delight

A elegant realm of architectural delight:the gastronomical analogy as a novel tactic to achieve sustainabilityMy aim is to claim that eating and drinking, as sources of creative imagination and aesthetic pleasure, are connected to the creative process in architecture, and hold a double denomination integrating the good with the beautiful.Gastronomic and architectural creations are mutually enhancing and mutually inspiring in their common pursuit of beauty.Exemplifying the values of sustainability and sustenance in the culture of architecture and cuisine, eating, drinking and building considered on the same plate contributes to finer, richer understanding by shedding a cross-cultural light on the study of traditional architecture and contemporary searches for sustainable architecture.

by Marco Frascari

Why grow food in cities?

For some people, the idea of urban agriculture may be new, or even rather odd – agriculture, surely, is a rural activity? In fact urban agriculture has a long history, a vibrant present and, many would argue, a vital future.

Farm to college

Farm-to-college programs connect colleges and universities with producers in their area to provide local farm products for meals and special events on campus. These programs may be small and unofficial, mainly involving special dinners or other events, or they may be large and well-established, with many local products incorporated into cafeteria meals every day.

GOOD LIFE - let's go for it

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Une salle de traite mobile à eau chaude solaire

Messieurs ALLAGNAT et SOUVIGNE sont réunis dans le GAEC de l'Abreuvoir et exploitent une ferme de polyculture élevage située sur la commune de Saint Sorlin de Morestel. Pour un bon développement de leur activité agricole et au regard de certaines contraintes, ils ont investi dans une salle de traite mobile qui fonctionne à l'énergie solaire thermique.

Coltivare il buon senso

Facendo tesoro dell’esperienza dei genitori, Frank Verhoeven ha creato la Boeren Verstand (sapere contadino) un’azienda che fornisce consulenza in tema di agricoltura sostenibile e che ricopre il ruolo di mediatrice nei processi decisionali tra governo, comunità scientifica e contadini.

Boeren Verstand