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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"regional food system"”.
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Architecture for a Regional Food System: A Food Hub for the Beacon Hill Neighborhood
… and mutually beneficial relationship between food and cities. However due to industrialization of our contemporary food network the tangible connections to food that were once present in the urban landscape have been lost. Supermarkets have replaced the public market, the traditional site for …
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Systems of Sustenance: A Re-imagining of Seattle's Food and Food Waste Infrastructure
… impact. This is especially true with food. In Seattle, a city expected to see 20% growth in the next 20 years, food accounts for roughly half of the average citizen’s ecological footprint (Moore 2011). The responses of farmer’s markets, food hubs and municipal compost, have thus far …
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Energy scarcity and food security: strategies for transition to resilient food system governance
… the impacts of emerging energy scarcity on food security, and explores strategies for transition to a sustainable food system. The core research questions focus on the Transition movement and implications for its political strategy generally, and proposals for food security specifically. The …
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Environmental and economic impacts of UIUC food purchasing
… of values based assessments such as the Real Food Challenge and then applies selected metrics to food procured by campus dining services at the University Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) in 2013. The American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) is a voluntary …
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Growing pains: the local food movement in northern Colorado
Global food and agribusiness corporations exhibit significant control over food production and consumption. Around the world, people contest this corporate food regime through efforts like local food movements. Critics often undermine the power of localism movements and claim that local food is a …