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Documenting Food Waste – 30th September

September 18, 2019 By Cara Jenkinson Leave a Comment

Chris King is a local documentary and portrait photographer and video producer who has spent the last five years documenting the issue of food waste.  Chris will share what he has witnessed and learned about the issue.  Come to hear his stories of people and organisations working to reduce the amount of edible food needlessly going to waste. Monday 30th September, 7.30pmMHSG … [Read more...]

Wrinkled veg and half-eaten humous

July 10, 2014 By Cara Jenkinson Leave a Comment

Emma Barnett from Love Food Hate Waste came to talk to us on 7th July.  She started off with some scary facts:  In the UK we throw away enough food, from our homes, to fill Wembley Stadium to the brim nine times over – every year’; ‘Wasting food costs the average family £480 a year. For families with children the cost can be up to £690 a year’ and ‘Food waste gives off harmful … [Read more...]

London’s Food in the Spotlight

April 18, 2013 By Cara Jenkinson Leave a Comment

Continuing in the series on London and Climate Change hosted by Transition Highgate and Muswell Hill Sustainability Group: London’s food in the spotlight: five ways to reduce the capital’s foodprint. We are delighted to welcome Dr Vicki Hird from Friends of the Earth to talk about the carbon impact of London's food and how it can be reduced. Vicki is a Senior Campaigner Land … [Read more...]

Sustainable Food and Farming Info Evening Mon 16th April

March 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Sustainable Food and Farming Info Evening and Social Mon 16th April, 8 – 10pm Hornsey Moravian Church Community Hall, Priory Road N8 7HR (bottom of Muswell Hill) Come and chew on some of those meaty issues surrounding food and farming and how we can move towards low-carbon eating and support sustainable agriculture in the UK. Find out about the Community Supported … [Read more...]

Reducing food waste on the Broadway

February 14, 2012 By Cara Jenkinson 1 Comment

According to WRAP, the waste action group, , 5.3m tonnes of still-edible food is thrown away each year.  The Best Before project www.bestbefore.org.uk  has the desperately sensible mission of redistributing unsold food from retailers which is past its Best Before date, to those who will benefit from it such as soup kitchens and community groups. As they put it Our plan against … [Read more...]

Sustainable Food and Farming

September 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The complex food systems of modern life have a massive impact on the health of the planet as well as our individual health and the health of communities around the globe.  In the UK the food we eat accounts for around a fifth of our total green-house gas emissions and the majority of this is from the meat and dairy industry.  Large scale farming, predominantly mono-crops and … [Read more...]

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