Tag Archive | "food issues"

Farewell checkout chick — hello machine

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

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Supermarkets may offer the chance to interact with a machine rather than with a human...

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Dilemma: Two community food systems — which to choose?

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

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Dilemma: Two community food systems — which to choose?

Here's the dilemma for Sydney City East good food eaters: which food system do you choose? Organic Buyers Group Randwick of Food Connect Sydney?

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Why is Food Connect taking off?

Monday, February 22, 2010

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Why is Food Connect taking off?

What is it that lies behind the rapid replication of Food Connect? Is it just good food, shorter links between farmer and eater... or is it something a little bit stickier?

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In Adelaide and Sydney, a tasty future beckons

Monday, February 22, 2010

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In Adelaide and Sydney, a tasty future beckons

Food Connect has made a start in Adelaide and Sydney...

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Plains To Plate signals arrival of food as sustainability issue

Monday, February 22, 2010

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Plains To Plate signals arrival of food as sustainability issue

Adelaide's Plains To Plate Food Convergence signals that food has arrived as a social, community and sustainability issue...

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Organic buyers group offers a good crop

Thursday, December 24, 2009

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Organic buyers group offers a good crop

IT’S MONDAY EVENING and we’re at a School in Randwick to collect our first box of vegetables from Sydney Organic Buyers Group, Randwick. We walk into a busy scene. People are taking fruit and vegetables from boxes and counting them into large shopping baskets arrayed across the floor. These contain the foods that make up the [...]

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Your coffee, sir… in a conventional or a bioplastic cup?

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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Your coffee, sir… in a conventional or a bioplastic cup?

Bioplastics appear to be a solution to some of our waste challenges, but do they offer new challenges in their place?...

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Open for business – Food Connect Sydney starts-up

Friday, November 27, 2009

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Open for business – Food Connect Sydney starts-up

FOOD CONNECT SYDNEY is a new community food enterprise bringing fresh, tasty foods to city eaters. Its opening comes as an organisation is created to facilitate the spread of the Food Connect model Australia-wide...

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Local a selling point at Evandale

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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Local a selling point at Evandale

FOOD GROWN LOCALLYseems to be something of a specialty at Evandale Market. A recent visit disclosed sign after sign on a number of stalls advertising the localism of fresh vegetables, herbs and fruit...

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Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament

Friday, November 20, 2009

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Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament

AROUND A DOZEN PEOPLE are walking the long, straight footway through Hyde Park where the lines of overaching native figs form a vegetative tunnel. They enter Macquarie Street and make their way to an old sandstone building with a long verandah. Here, they are to hand over the state’s first Declaration on Food...

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