Climate Cafe: Climate Change Conversations » food http://www.climatecafe.org/blog Climate Change: A blog to inspire action on Climate Change Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:04:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Growing Food vs. Fun Food: Wooden Monkey conversation – part II http://www.climatecafe.org/blog/2009/05/growing-food-vs-fun-food-wooden-monkey-conversation-part-ii/ http://www.climatecafe.org/blog/2009/05/growing-food-vs-fun-food-wooden-monkey-conversation-part-ii/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 15:54:42 +0000 Todd Lucier http://www.climatecafe.org/blog/?p=369 Lil Macpherson, Jocelyn Blais, Celes Davar and Todd Lucier, four climate change presenters with Climate Project Canada, are in the Nashville Airport Café having a conversation about Growing Food vs. Fun Food.
It’s an important conversation about where our food comes from and the difference that local food can make in a healthy community.

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Health, hunger, organics, toxics, food distribution – managing our food resources is a big challenge that we need to fix.

Enjoy this conversation with Save Food panel moderator Rachel Weidinger (@rachelannyes)

Watch the Save Food panel on the Qik Stream as it happened

Get the whole save food story by watching the panel as I recorded it on Qik.

Save Food Panel Summary

This SxSW panel discussed how nonprofits and social entrepreneurs are making access to sustainable food easier with shortcodes, social networks, advocacy tools, and location-based platforms. The founder of FarmsReach shared her vision for this web platform for local, sustainable food. We discussed the evolution of Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch to mobile access, and the recent launch of their iPhone app. The advocacy work of the American Farmland Trust was covered, including some surprises about SEM. We shares how the Sierra Club’s global warming portal with integrated social network–Climate Crossroads–is using food to engage users in information sharing and social networking.

Save Food Links

  • Learn more about Save food by following the conversation on Twitter at #savefood.
  • http://savefood.wikispaces.com – one stop destination to read about and contribute information to supplement panel presentations and learn more about SaveFood.
  • Sierra Club project mashes together information and social networking community: Climate Crossroads
  • FarmsReach connecting farmers with buyers in their local community (SF Bay area beta)
  • Seafood Watch iPhone app
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