WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR COMMUNITY GARDENS
First Tuesday - sustainability speaker series
Interested in living more sustainably? Then come along to the ‘First Tuesday’ sustainability speaker series, and hear from a stunning line-up of experts on environmental sustainability in the urban environment. This series aims to highlight the ways that people in the city can still have a positive impact on the environment.
The talks will be held at CCS Disability Action, 14 Erson Avenue, Royal Oak.
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Cost: $5 koha at the door
NEXT SPEAKER - TUESDAY 6 APRIL
Real food please; why consumers are rebelling against industrial foods and searching for real alternatives - By Sue Kedgley Green MP
As consumers rebel against anonymous, mass produced, highly processed, long distance food, with its bland sameness and lack of taste, a local food movement is gathering momentum, and real food is making a comeback. This quiet, consumer driven local food revolution is starting to change the food we buy, our eating habits and the way food is grown and produced.
Sue Kedgley will explore the tension between the local food movement and the consumer driven demand for real, wholesome, local food, and the globalised food system which is heading in the opposite direction.
It’s a clash of paradigms –a David and Goliath clash between consumers –David—demanding real, local food, and Goliath, the industrial food industry seeking to retain control over the globalised, corporatized, industrial food systems. She will also discuss the part governments are playing in this clash.
FUTURE SPEAKERS
Ngarimu Blair – Kaitiakitanga in the concrete Ngahere: the ethic of customary Maori guardianship in the 21st century – 4 May
Sarah Sheeran – Conscious consumerism – 1 June
Jennifer Kerr – Sustainable living on a budget – 6 July
John Darroch – Transforming the suburbs – young voices moving us forward into sustainability – 3 August
Lynda Hallinan – Living off of the produce (and the proceeds) of my own garden – 7 September
Finn Mackesy – Urban permaculture: modern solutions for sustaining Auckland – 5 October