We gave away some free food. Please keep watching our main video here.
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Watch Conor Walsh from the University of Manchester’s Sustainable Consumption Institute explain that Food Miles are only the beginning in analysing food.
Global Warming Reduces Expected Crop Yields
Not news to those who follow climate change science. Good to see the NYTimes hitting the story. Climate change is expected to shrink yields in some countries. Corn yields in the US is down, despite upward demand pressures. Also, I’m a fan of Justin Gillis’s tight, to the point writing style.
Good read, here.
We did a short video about this. Check it out :-)
How will climate change affect rice yields? from Thought For Food Manchester on Vimeo.
More videos! We decided to investigate alternative food shops, starting with the fantastic Unicorn Grocery in Chorlton, Manchester.
Pete investigates food waste: ‘I’ve been eating out of bins for the last week-and-a-half. Give it a go! I don’t see why we can’t leave bins where homeless people are free to scavenge… it’s a rarity to find supermarket bins that aren’t behind a lock, chain and a very high wall. In the last two weeks I’ve found bread, eggs, chocolate, brocolli, spuds, ham, oranges, tomotoes, cake, fish, pork pies, coca cola, fruit juice, doughnuts, pastries and some tunnocks tea cakes - all very edible!’
The Father of Natural Farming – Masanobu Fukuoka
Some very interesting concepts here, along similar lines to a wonderful TED talk we saw yesterday. That TED talk focuses on fish, but the line that stuck was that farming should be done extensively, not intensively. An approach that joins these similar viewpoints with some of my own: urban agriculture, grow your own, self-sufficiency across broader regions could be fruitful.
Aidan Knight - Local Food (by Amazing Factory Productions Inc.)
This is great. If there is one thing that we love as much as food then it is music.
If we all produce enough food to eat from our own area then that will help to ensure a better future for all of us. Extensive farming not intensive farming maybe?
