First Tuesday Sustainability Speakers Series, Real Food Please

Submitted by CCS Disability Action Community Gardens on Wed, 12/05/2010 - 15:54
Region:
Auckland Region
Activity type:
Sustainable Living (inc. gardening)
7:00pm
Apr
06
9:00pm
Apr
06

First Tuesday Sustainability Speakers Series - Interested in living more sustainably? Then come along to the “First Tuesday” sustainability speakers series and hear from a stunning line-up of experts on environmental sustainability in the urban environment. This series aims to highlight the ways that people in the city can still have a positive impact on the environment.

Where: The talks will be held at CCS Disability Action, 14 Erson Avenue, Royal Oak.
When: The first Tuesday of every month
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Cost: $5 koha at the door - refreshments provided
Contact: scott.thiemann@ccsdisabilityaction.org.nz

Real food please; why consumers are rebelling against industrial foods and searching for real alternatives - By Sue Kedgley Green MP

As consumers rebel against anonymous, mass produced, highly processed, long distance food, with its bland sameness and lack of taste, a local food movement is gathering momentum, and real food is making a comeback. This quiet, consumer driven local food revolution is starting to change the food we buy, our eating habits and the way food is grown and produced.
   
Sue Kedgley will explore the tension between the local food movement and the consumer driven demand for real, wholesome, local food, and the globalised food system which is heading in the opposite direction.
 
It’s a clash of paradigms –a David and Goliath clash between consumers –David—demanding real, local food, and Goliath, the industrial food industry seeking to retain control over the globalised, corporatized, industrial food systems. She will also discuss the part governments are playing in this clash.
 
Please visit our website here for  The 2010 “First Tuesday” series speakers

Address CCS Disability Action, 14 Erson Avenue, Royal Oak, Auckland