Carolyn Steel : Hungry City

Carolyne Steel is an architect but she is often introduced as a food urbanist because she looks food networks. She is talking about the question of how to feed cities may be one of the biggest contemporary issues. She argues that our current food networks have lots of serious problem and it alienate us from food what we eat. I have found that I need to considere this issue as an architect and landscape architect because landscape architecture has many positive potentials for future urban food system.

This video sourced from (http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/650)

Incredible Edible Todmorden London Conference Peckham

Incredible Edible Todmorden is a community group of local people, business, and schools in Todmorden. They are leading the way in response to the challenges of climate change through a commitment to the production of food by local people for local consumption. Their aim is to have the town self-sufficient in food by 2018.

The second Incredible Edible national conference held at John Donne School Peckham, on Saturday, October 9th. It was great time to have a exchange of ideas for sustainable positive living ways.

After a short welcome to the school, which is itself growing vegetables in the playground, and a brief history of the Peckham Experiment by Lisa Curtice. Interesting stuff done in the 1930's to see if what we would now call 'lifestyle' factors can influence health.

Professor Tim Lang in sober mood spoke about food security emphasising how much there is still to do, we have made a start.

The afternoon was dedicated to swapping ideas for moving Incredible Edible Todmorden and similar projects forward into the future as everyone broke into small groups to attend two workshops each.

There were four types of workshop topics. It was;
- Learning inside and outside the classroom Paul Clarke.
- Developing incredible building designs. James Darbyshire STACE partners.
- Communications: press, web, poster & word of mouth Alan McDonald
- Growing and the skills you need. Nick Green.

I was really glad to meet this active local community and to learn positive solutions for the better future.