[Community_garden] UK, Australian, North America International Conversations re Food Systems

[James Godsil]

Dear All,

Below is an exchange between Ben Reynolds, one of the London authors of
"EdibleCities" and Kirsten Larsen, one of the Australians behind the
recently published report called *Sustainable and Secure Food Systems for
Victoria: What do we know? What do we need to* know?

Edible Cities and the Australian Report are surely good places to start for
internationalizing our conversations about "what is to be done!"

Here's the full Australian report:

* www.ecoinnovationlab.com/pages/library.php

Summaries are available if you write *Kristen at* *klarsen at unimelb.edu.au

 Perhaps 100 e-mails to Bill Moyers from each continent might inspire the
Moyers show that awakens the Obama team to the promise of our movement!

Perhaps we can help our brothers and sisters in the food movement impact
their nation's governments as well!

Think/act local and global!

Send an e-mail to Bill Moyers exhorting him to devote a program to the
idiocy of industrial agriculture and the promise of local, urban, and
schoolyard farms and gardens.

Featuring: Grace Lee Boggs, Will Allen, Amy Goodman, Michael Pollan, Barbara
Kinsolver

"Bill Moyers" <moyersonpbs at thirteen.org>

and cc Moyersalert at milwaukeerenaissance.com, por favor

Viva, urban agrians!

Godsil
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From: Ben Reynolds <ben at sustainweb.org>
Date: May 27, 2008 5:00 AM
Subject: RE: Sustain e-publication order
To: klarsen at unimelb.edu.au
Cc: James Godsil <godsil.james at gmail.com>

 Kirsten,

Thanks for the interest.  Your work sounds really interesting and I look
forward to reading the summary you sent through.  I'm not familiar with the
work in Australia but we are increasingly making more international
links and there are plans afoot from some of our friends in teh states to
set up an international urban agrarians yahoo group. I've cced in Godsil who
may well forward you some info about it.  We've also got a conference coming
up as part of the London Festival of Architecture, about urban agriculture
with speakers from all over.  It's becoming a big issue with food prices and
fuel prices rising.

Keep in touch,

Ben
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*From:* Kirsten Larsen [mailto:klarsen at unimelb.edu.au]
*Sent:* 27 May 2008 07:24
*To:* sustain at sustainweb.org
*Subject:* Re: Sustain e-publication order

Hi,
This publication looks great, I have just downloaded and will start reading!

We're also doing lots of work in the food area, from an Australian
perspective, and have just released a report called *Sustainable and Secure
Food Systems for Victoria: What do we know? What do we need to know?I've
attached a copy of the summary document (the full report is available for
download from www.ecoinnovationlab.com/pages/library.php) in case you're
interested*

The project I work for (Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab) is also doing quite a
bit of work around urban food systems, particularly working with design
students and government to stretch thinking about what 'sustainable cities'
will look like - and obviously food plays a big part in this.

Anyway, off to read your report :)

Cheers,
Kirsten
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