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Grow Organic Food Anywhere
The cargoPOD is a concept that integrates the flexibility of global shipping routes with standardized manufacturing materials to produce a closed environment that can grow great food anywhere in the city where there is access to electricity and...
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Arash Amini
April 14, 2011
05:06AM |
What's that you say? A Roaming Restaurant?
..it's looking for somewhere ...and someTHING to cook...
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Maya
April 26, 2011
06:24PM |
School district co-ops and user-inspired food education
The idea is to pair up local neighboring schools into district co-ops that would increase demand for sustainable local food ingredients and lower per unit food costs for the schools. The user inspired education would turn in-school chefs and cook...
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Wojtek Tusz
April 21, 2011
08:30PM |
Earn Green Bytes
The concept is to create a continuous feedback loop for the consumer and reward his/her green behavior through ‘Green Bytes’. Green Bytes are points based on your actual food purchase and also gives you a web platform to analyse your consumption p...
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Priti Rao
April 21, 2011
12:26PM |
A restuarant that provides awareness and knowledge of growing and eating fresh food.
Customers will be able to eat a meal made from produce they have picked themselves a short time ago.
From the Soil to the Plate
A restuarant that provides awareness and knowledge of growing and eating fresh food.
Customers will be able to eat a meal made from produce they have picked themselves a short time ago.
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Sophia
April 26, 2011
03:25PM |
BillBoard Garden by the Expressway, on the highway, off the highway
A growing garden with real plants, in pots on rows of shelves, maybe creepers even... all growing a variety of fruits, vegetables and flowers.
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NarasimhaMurthy Gollapudi
April 22, 2011
11:56AM |
Mobile Public Kitchen - The Chop Shop
The Chop Shop brings the community kitchen and educational programs to you. The versatile commercial grade kitchen & classroom is equipped for bulk processing of poultry and vegetables as well as educational demonstrations, outreach, or even retai...
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Audrey Barnes
April 13, 2011
11:49PM |
SeedCard - Seed Impregnated Greeting Cards:
This concept re-visits the concept of natural seed dispersal (for herb, vegetable and fruit seeds) by using the postal system. It's promotional/awareness tools designed as commercially marketable range of innovative greeting cards…like direct mail...
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Jason Morenikeji
April 09, 2011
12:01PM |
"Book some Food"
Just in time delivery is killing us. We should pre-order more, so production and consumption can be better matched.
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Paul van Zoggel
April 11, 2011
08:23PM |
Pop Up Local Food Restaurants / Trucks
Food trucks can pop up in neighborhoods selling prepared foods made only with locally sourced ingredients. The trucks convene at a different spot each day. Since their location is insider knowledge, pursuing them gets that much more interesting.
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Nathalie Collins
April 26, 2011
03:48PM |
Using databases to connect producers and consumers
The Queensland government could use their database of producers (trade/export, animal and plant industries) to create a website like Local Dirt, which helps local farmers connect to consumers. Farmers sign up and register what they offer and then ...
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Jennifer Parker
April 19, 2011
03:45AM |
P2P Farming
A platform connecting urban eaters to local (and surrounding) farmers.
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Sarah Fathallah
April 05, 2011
11:05AM |
The Seasonal Network is a simple community website which aims to help people understand what's seasonal right now in their own location.
The Seasonal Network
The Seasonal Network is a simple community website which aims to help people understand what's seasonal right now in their own location.
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Jonatan Wentzel
April 18, 2011
08:01PM |
Queensland open sustainability & food day
Imagine IDEO OPEN transferred into Queensland OPEN. When people are involved they have ownership and that is essential to create a change. Global change by acting local.
Queensland Government should ask the citizens for help
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peter matzen
April 25, 2011
12:30PM |
Recipes for all seasons - recipe book competition
A competition where people devise recipes which use only local produce and enter them into 4 categories: spring, summer, autumn and winter. The best recipes are included in a book.
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Helen Moss
April 14, 2011
11:05AM |
It is time to give the consumers access to their own information! By connecting the databases of the supermarket this concept presents a website that produces graphs of your consumption.
Consumption graphs
It is time to give the consumers access to their own information! By connecting the databases of the supermarket this concept presents a website that produces graphs of your consumption.
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Jonatan Wentzel
April 25, 2011
07:27PM |
Residential compost material -- curbside pickup
Just as we separate recycling from normal trash, what if the Queensland government made it a state-wide initiative to encourage people to separate compost material for pick up on a regular trash day. This could reduce landfill waste dramatically a...
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Priyanka Kodikal
April 21, 2011
12:40AM |
Win Community Food Grants by Composting! (Updated)
Community rather than individual incentives to improve separation at source. Communities are rewarded with community food and nutrition related grants that fund activities the communities come up with themselves.
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Maia Smith
April 21, 2011
12:32PM |
Vacant Lot + Farmer's Market + Community = Pocket Park for the Perfect Picnic
Concept for a farmer's market & community redevelopment group to unite by transforming a vacant lot over time to create a space for preparing and sharing an outdoor meal.
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MEH
April 08, 2011
04:59PM |
Learning From a Bottle of Beer
What if we expanded this idea of "craft beer" to other products, such as "craft lettuce" and "craft eggs"? The microbrew industry has done a fabulous job of turning the brewer into an artisan or a fine craftsman. How about if we turn the small org...
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Sean Hewens
April 10, 2011
03:38PM |
