Category Archives: Food

My ecological footprint

Big Society, Climate change, Food, Sustainability

To help reduce my ecological footprint over many years I have worked with friends, neighbours and community organisations on food (Sustainable Food in Hounslow, 2007), energy and transport issues.

In May 2013, Brentford High Street Steering Group, which I chair, relaunched the now hugely popular Brentford Market, which is helping more people buy local food and providing a great focal point to our community.

Why not find out your footprint by visiting http://footprint.wwf.org.uk ?

If you want to take action you might want to consider getting an allotment, and if you live in London Boroughs of Hounslow or Ealing join Hounslow Community Farming Association, Transition Ealing or volunteer with Cultivate London?

Wheat price crisis hits the world poor hard

Food, International

The worst fall out from the lack of an effective global agreement on how to address climate change — and alongside this establish a global strategy on biofuels production — is the recent fast rise in wheat prices.

The impacts on the Palestinian people is explained in this TV interview last week with an old friend Kirstie Campbell. Kirstie spent the first years of her life in Brentford, and is now a spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP):

http://media.themedialine.org/media/071108_gaza_bread.wmv

Worth tuning in to…