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| ==== Green Track & Food For Thought ==== | ==== Green Track & Food For Thought ==== | ||
| - | Green initiatives led by Vooruit under the leadership of Director Barbara Raes | + | Initiatives at Vooruit under the leadership of Director Barbara Raes |
| - | * http:// | + | Part of [[gent plant people]]\\ Details about Green Track at http:// |
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| - | While examining the relationship between people and plants in Gent I have witnessed the potential for a future where humankind has a less destructive impact the environment. In our quest to live, grow, eat and prosper, it is important to adopt systems and approaches which support and nourish the natural world. We need to communicate with nature, not dominate it. I have come across | + | There are various individuals who seem to be major ‘activators’ in leading a return to local and sustainable systems |
| Barbara is the Director at Vooruit. She has started 2 initiatives connecting local people and businesses with a focus on environmental sustainability (Green Track) and food production (Food for Thought). | Barbara is the Director at Vooruit. She has started 2 initiatives connecting local people and businesses with a focus on environmental sustainability (Green Track) and food production (Food for Thought). | ||
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| The second initiative, Food for Thought, began after a trip to Amsterdam with some of the Vooruit team. They bumped into an Onion Festival, drawing attention to the fact that one quarter of a million onions were about to be destroyed in the Netherlands causing massive economic loss to farmers. There was a huge pile of onions on the riverbank with stalls and markets dedicated to cooking soups and meals and allowing people take onions home. Barbara saw this event as a way of drawing attention to a cause without it being didactic, instead making it engaging and accessible to the public. She investigated similar food over-supply problems in Belgium and after a lot of research ended up focusing on food waste. Based on this problem, she organized a workshop at DOK where food thrown out by businesses was cooked into delicious meals and preserved in jars. The team will repeat this project when they cater for the Transition Conference in Vooruit in October. | The second initiative, Food for Thought, began after a trip to Amsterdam with some of the Vooruit team. They bumped into an Onion Festival, drawing attention to the fact that one quarter of a million onions were about to be destroyed in the Netherlands causing massive economic loss to farmers. There was a huge pile of onions on the riverbank with stalls and markets dedicated to cooking soups and meals and allowing people take onions home. Barbara saw this event as a way of drawing attention to a cause without it being didactic, instead making it engaging and accessible to the public. She investigated similar food over-supply problems in Belgium and after a lot of research ended up focusing on food waste. Based on this problem, she organized a workshop at DOK where food thrown out by businesses was cooked into delicious meals and preserved in jars. The team will repeat this project when they cater for the Transition Conference in Vooruit in October. | ||
| - | Food For Thought continued as a movement in the making by starting to address ideas around sustainable food production and consumption. Barbara felt that with so many people working at a volunteer level either as individuals or small organisations there would be a greater benefit in harnessing their collective group energy. She created an open space for brainstorming ideas at DOK. The open group came up with 3 ideas:\\ 1. Putting edible gardens in schools: a project involving urban farming between parents, teachers and students\\ 2. Spreading gardening knowledge in nursing homes with the elderly. Starting gardens for them to look after and share their existing knowledge with the community\\ 3. A Carrot Mob: Food for Thought will find out from shop owners how great a percentage of their profits they would reinvest in renewable energy. The highest bidder will be the centre of a flash mob on Fair Trade Day in October, where for one day everyone will be encouraged to shop at that location, hence providing the shop with the highest profit margin possible. | + | Food For Thought continued as a movement in the making by starting to address ideas around sustainable food production and consumption. Barbara felt that with so many people working at a volunteer level either as individuals or small organisations there would be a greater benefit in harnessing their collective group energy. She created an open space for brainstorming ideas at DOK. The open group came up with 3 ideas: |
| - | Vooruit has traditionally been a space for the people, a venue for coming together and for building a community around social action. Under Barbara’s direction, Vooruit is reclaiming its history by presenting social action and community building initiatives around sustainability and food alongside its diverse program of arts events and performance. Under Barbara’s leadership, these initiatives are harnessing skills and knowledge from the community and connecting the dots to help guide us into the future. | + | 1. |
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| + | Vooruit has traditionally been a space for the people, a venue for coming together and for building a community around social action. Under Barbara’s direction, Vooruit is reclaiming its history by presenting social action and community building initiatives around sustainability and food alongside its diverse program of arts events and performances. Under Barbara’s leadership, these initiatives are harnessing skills and knowledge from the community and connecting the dots to help guide us into the future. | ||
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