Urban Food Revolution | Changing the way we feed cities
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Peter Ladner is a public speaker, author of The Urban Food Revolution and Fellow at the SFU Centre for Dialogue. Peter is a frequent speaker on food issues, urban farming and urban agriculture. In the past he has given hundreds of talks to business, community, academic and professional organizations and in the media. He has a lifelong interest in urban farming in his own gardens.
Urban Food Revolution | Changing the way we feed cities
3y ago
My thoughts, from the Food Talk series organized by Richard Wolack in Vancouver. Thanks for inviting me Richard.
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Urban Food Revolution | Changing the way we feed cities
3y ago
Nick Saul, Toronto-based co-author of The Stop: How the fight for good food transformed a community and inspired a movement, is coming to Vancouver to explore possibilities for a community food centre in the Vancouver area. He’ll be at the Roundhouse Community Centre for World Food Day celebrations on Oct. 16, along with the Vancouver Food Policy Council.
Here’s my review of his book, originally published in the Literary Review of Canada.
If you google “food” and “revolution” in Chapters.Indigo, eight titles will pop up—not including diet books. Include the search words “movement” and “food ..read more
Urban Food Revolution | Changing the way we feed cities
3y ago
Please join me at this Sustainable Economics workshop at Simon Fraser University:
Sustainable Economics for the Real World
Nov 1-2, 2013
9am-5:30pm
$650
Instructor/speakers: Alexis Morgan, Global Water Roundtable, WWF; Peter Ladner, author (The Urban Food Revolution); Mark Pezarro, Earth Voice Strategies; Basil Stumborg, BC Hydro; Coro Strandberg, Strandberg Consulting; Bruce Irvine, Dillon Consulting Ltd.
Sustainability requires us to integrate economic considerations with environmental and social factors in the short and long term. Unfortunately, traditional financial and economic technique ..read more
Urban Food Revolution | Changing the way we feed cities
3y ago
The rich get organics and the poor get diabetes– now insects! That’s the dark way to look at this amazing win by McGill business students over 10,000 competing teams from around the world. Bill Clinton awarded the prize.
To meet the challenge of world food security, the students promoted the potential of insect farming to help feed the world in the face of ongoing hunger tormenting a quarter of the world’s children.
Yes, it’s a good question whether eating insects is intended for those of us meat-eaters who are consuming far more of our fair share of the planet’s food resources, or just for p ..read more
Urban Food Revolution | Changing the way we feed cities
3y ago
Find local (B.C.) organic varieties here, available by mail order: https://www.bcecoseedcoop.com/collections/vegetables ..read more
Urban Food Revolution | Changing the way we feed cities
3y ago
Find local (B.C.) organic varieties here, available by mail order: https://www.bcecoseedcoop.com/collections/vegetables ..read more
Urban Food Revolution | Changing the way we feed cities
3y ago
A policy that was supposed to be protection for farmers has become a loophole for property owners building giant houses, sometimes operating them as illegal hotels, getting cheap (by B.C. standards) land prices, and skirting taxes. Richmond needs to take action to prevent this mockery of agricultural land protection.
https://pricetags.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/farm-land-or-large-mansions-on-the-richmond-responds ..read more
Urban Food Revolution | Changing the way we feed cities
3y ago
A policy that was supposed to be protection for farmers has become a loophole for property owners building giant houses, sometimes operating them as illegal hotels, getting cheap (by B.C. standards) land prices, and skirting taxes. Richmond needs to take action to prevent this mockery of agricultural land protection.
https://pricetags.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/farm-land-or-large-mansions-on-the-richmond-responds ..read more
Urban Food Revolution | Changing the way we feed cities
3y ago
https://www.carbonbrief.org/farming-overtakes-deforestation-and-land-use-as-a-driver-of-climate-change?
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Urban Food Revolution | Changing the way we feed cities
3y ago
https://www.carbonbrief.org/farming-overtakes-deforestation-and-land-use-as-a-driver-of-climate-change?
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