Posts Tagged ‘sustainable food’
Growing Change: A journey inside Venezuela’s food revolution
Posted in Events, Uncategorized by EcoCentre on November 22nd, 2011
| 28 November , 2011 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Join Port Phillip EcoCentre for this FREE screening of a film “Growing change” that investigates alternatives to the industrial and corporate controlled food system that have been developed by people of Venezuela. After the film have your say in a discussion! What can we learn from their experience? What can we do differently?
The documentary begins with an investigation of the 2008 global food crisis, looking at the long-term underlying causes. Will expanding large-scale, energy-intensive agriculture, be the solution or re problems? If we already produce enough food to feed the world why do so many people go hungry? After hearing about efforts in Venezuela to develop a more equitable and sustainable food and agriculture system, the filmmaker heads there to see if it’s working and find out what we might be able to learn from this giant experiment. It’s an inspirational story full of lively characters, thought provoking insights, stunning scenery and ideas to transform the food system.
Monday, 28 November at 7pm
Port Phillip EcoCentre 55A Blessington St, St Kilda
Any questions? Write to us: reception@ecocentre.com or call (03) 9534 0670
For more info about the film: www.growingchange.com.au
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The Economics of Happiness: Foodie film screening
Posted in Events by TransitionTownPortPhillip on November 10th, 2011
| 14 November , 2011 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
“Going local” is a powerful strategy to repair our fractured world – our ecosystems, our societies and ourselves… Join us on Monday 14 November, 7.30 for 8pm screening of “The Economics of Happiness”, a film exploring the emerging paradigm of re-localisation, a new way of thinking about economics, growth & prosperity.
Special guest speaker, Nick Ray, founder of the Ethical Consumer Guide.
Tickets $11 online or $12 on the door (subject to availability) includes nibblies made from locally sourced produce & a glass of wine.
SLOWdown Cafe Bar Restaurant, 56 Acland St, St Kilda (opposite McDonalds).
Appetite for Insight foodie films are proudly presented in partnership with SLOWdown eco-friendly restaurant & Transition Town Port Phillip, supported by Port Phillip Urban Fresh Food Network & Veg Out Community Gardens.
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“The End Of The Line” foodie film screening
Posted in Events by TransitionTownPortPhillip on October 6th, 2011
| 10 October , 2011 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Imagine a world without fish, Imagine your meals without seafood…
Join us on Monday 10 October, 7.30 for 8pm screening of “The End Of The Line”, a film exploring the alarming consequences of global overfishing. Guest speaker John Ford, Marine Scientist & Presenter on Triple R’s “Radio Marinara” will share his knowledge about local impacts and sustainable seafood. Tickets $15 online http://slowdown.net.au/news.html or on the door (subject to availability) includes nibblies made from locally sourced produce & a glass of wine.
SLOWdown Cafe Bar Restaurant, 56 Acland St, St Kilda (opposite McDonalds), 8534 3030
Sustainable seafood pre-screening menu available.
Appetite for Insight foodie films are proudly presented in partnership with SLOWdown eco-friendly restaurant & Transition Town Port Phillip, supported by Port Phillip Urban Fresh Food Network & Veg Out Community Gardens.
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“Anima Mundi”: Film screening
Posted in Events by TransitionTownPortPhillip on August 19th, 2011
| 12 September , 2011 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Will you survive the transition of human industrial civilization happening now due to peak oil and climate change? Can you see the forest for the trees, the earth for the dream, the universe for the seed?
Join us Monday 12 September @ 7.30pm for 8pm screening of “ANIMA MUNDI”, a new & innovative Aussie documentary about Permaculture, Peak Oil, Climate Change & the Soul of the World. with guest speakers, Filmmaker Peter Charles Downey & Integrative Medicine expert, Dr Mark O’Meadhra
SLOWdown restaurant cafe bar, 56 Acland Street, St Kilda (opp McDonalds)
Tickets $10 online or $11 on the door (subject to availability). Includes locally sourced produce nibblies & glass of wine. Sustainable pre-screening menu available beforehand.
Proudly presented in partnership with SLOWdown eco-friendly cafe bar & Transition Town Port Phillip, supported by Port Phillip Urban Fresh Food Network & Veg Out Community Gardens.
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“One Man, One Cow, One Planet”: Film Night
Posted in Events by TransitionTownPortPhillip on June 9th, 2011
| 13 June , 2011 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
A simple recipe to save the world? One old man and a bucket of cow-dung!
Modern agriculture causes topsoil to be eroded at 3 million tons per hour (that’s 26 billion tons a year). Human mass is replacing biomass and other species. The carrying capacity of the earth is almost spent. To maintain our comfort zone lifestyles we will soon need five earths to sustain us in the style to which we have become accustomed. The mantra of free trade has failed the world’s poor. There is a better way. Biodynamic agriculture may be the only answer we have left.
Join us Monday 13 June, 7.30pm for 8pm (sharp) screening of “ONE MAN, ONE COW, ONE PLANET”
SlowDown!@Harley Court, 56 Acland Street, St Kilda (opp McDonalds)
Tickets $11 on the door (subject to availability). Includes locally sourced produce nibblies & glass of wine. Arrive earlier for vegan pre-screening menu from 5-7pm
Proudly presented in partnership with SlowDown@ Harley Court, Transition Town Port Phillip and Port Phillip Urban Fresh Food Network, supported by Veg Out Community Gardens & Slow Food Melbourne.
“Kitchen Symphony” a community cooking event
Posted in Events by TransitionTownPortPhillip on May 18th, 2011
| 21 May , 2011 | ||
| 11:00 am | to | 3:00 pm |
Join Port Phillip Urban Fresh Food Network & Transition Town Port Phillip for “Kitchen Symphony”, and take part in the cook up of the season!
We’ll be preparing and sharing a fresh and seasonal, low cost, vegetarian banquet. Other activities include a food swap, garden foraging, composting & food mapping. Bring your surplus homegrown veg, herbs, seeds etc. All cooking abilities welcome!
Sat 21 May, 11-3pm @ the Cora Graves Centre
38 Blessington St, St Kilda
Please RSVP: 0417 501 383 / gardeners@ecocentre.com
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Collingwood Children’s Farm – Bringing the Country to the City
Posted in Models, RDAG by Virginia on May 5th, 2009
The Collingwood Children’s Farm is a not-for-profit community resource providing country experiences for city people. It was established in 1979 when a community committee, with support from the former Collingwood City Council, leased a small area of the convent for a Children’s Farm.
The Committee hoped children living in an urban environment, often without backyards, could learn to care for animals and nature and also have fun outdoors. Local schools and other groups helped with fencing, gardening and animal care. Members of the Greek Elderly Citizens and the Turkish Welfare Group helped clear weeds and carve out the community plots.
Since the 1980s, state and local governments have funded some of the Farm’s costs. State and Federal Labour governments supported the successful bid for a much larger area of land. Now the Collingwood Children’s Farm Committee of Management manages this Crown land site. Service clubs and philanthropic trusts help, but always the largest part of our operational costs comes from entry fees, donations and through the work of volunteers.
This is from “Social Innovations in Victorian Food Systems”, case studies by Ferne Edwards.
Sharing Backyards – Share to grow
Posted in Models, RDAG by Virginia on April 24th, 2009
People have begun to share their backyards in order to produce more homegrown foods. In North America and Canada this activity has been extended by using online technologies linking people with unused yard space to grow food.
Access to land is believed to be one of the biggest barriers to food production as stated by Patrick Hayes from MapsWest. Land must be local for the gardeners while trust is also important enhanced through proximity. The ‘Sharing Backyards’ concept aims to make maximum use of the city by identifying wasted space suitable for food production.
Sharing backyard sites apply geocoding and web mapping technologies to reveal potential garden plots. Sharing backyard sites include www.sharingbackyards.com, www.cityfarmer.org/sharing_backyards, www.lifecyclesproject.ca/initiatives/sharing_backyards.
This is from “Social Innovations in Victorian Food Systems,’ case studies by Ferne Edwards
The Australian Conservation Foundation Consumption Atlas
Posted in Models, RDAG by Virginia on April 21st, 2009
The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) is one of Australia’s oldest environmental agencies committed to inspiring Australians to achieve a healthy environment over the last forty years.
ACF developed the online Consumption Atlas website in 2007 to complement the research paper, ‘Consuming Australia’, conducted in partnership with the University of Sydney. This report described and analysed the main environmental impacts of consumption in Australia. Food is a key area that emerged from this study, considering the household consumption of interrelated factors such as water, land and energy use.
The online Consumption Atlas encourages individuals to personalise their consumption by locating where they live on the map and choosing an indicator (greenhouse gas emissions, water use or eco-footprint) to discover their local consumption rate showing them how they compare nationally. Methods are offered to help people reduce their overall consumption.
Most importantly, this site untangles complex interdependencies of material flows to help people understand the true implications of their personal consumption.
For more information about the Australian Conservation Foundation’s Consumption Atlas visit www.acfonline.org.au/ Consumptionatlas.
This is from “Social Innocation in Victorian Food Systems’ case studies by Ferne Edwards
Food Connect – A Collaboration Between Local Farmers and City Folk
Posted in Models, RDAG by Virginia on April 20th, 2009
Food Connect is a Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) enterprise based in Brisbane that distributes ecologically sustainable, affordable produce by collaborating directly with local farmers for a fair financial return helping the local region to be more food secure.
(Please note: A Community Shared Agriculture differs to a Community Supported Agriculture as the former is explicity a two-way relationship between farmer and consumer.) Their goal is to provide fresh, local, predominantly organic, affordable (their boxes are twenty per cent cheaper than the supermarkets), seasonal food with the best outcome for farmers, communities and the environment.
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