Sustainability: Food in the City
April 27th Meeting Notes (Compiled by Lauren Bierly)
Sustainability Research Group
April 27, 2011
Last Meeting...
Refer to visual for all subcategories...
- Infrastructure
- New York CIty
- Human Health (changed from 'Medicine')
- Packaging + Consumption
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Adding...
- Environmental Impact
- Industrial Ag
- Communication/Messaging
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Issues surrounding food system
1- What two bits of information would you like to see communicated to people within the food system?
Summary of Food/Agriculture updates to PlaNYC
Just Food put together this great summary of the how the various aspects of NYC's sustainability plan PlaNYC incorporate Food/Agriculture initiatives.
http://justfood.org/sites/default/files/PlaNYC_summary_0.pdf
Pop-Up Class
Join The New School's Fabio Parasecoli for New York City’s first college
pop-up class at Union Square’s Greenmarket on Wednesday, April 20. With the Greenmarket as his classroom, Professor Parasecoli will conduct a unique cultural, historical, and environmental lesson in food - with the farmers as participating experts - as collective thoughts turn to spring produce, Easter dinners and Passover recipes. At the end of the pop-up class, he'll offer up Italian recipes inspired by the ingredients
available at the Greenmarket and answer questions.
Food in the City - Sustainability Research Group
The motivations include:
•Reclamation of the term "sustainable" from mainstream media and corporate culture outlets where it's been exploited, diminished and twisted far away from its original definition and intention.
•Widening of the discussion of our Food Systems to include environmental issues such as fracking, water sources, soil contamination, global warming, Superfund sites, animal cruelty and labor (immigrant) exploitation.
