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How might we better connect food production and consumption?
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Wow! That's been our biggest response yet in a Concepting Phase – over 600 ideas posted! Thanks a million to everyone who contributed and collaborated by building on others' ideas. The Concepting Phase has now closed. Now it's time to head to the Evaluation Phase where we're asking the community to assess the Top 20 ideas for their awesomeness.
Food Election campaign
As a means of promoting local fresh food, separating it and branding it clearer against factory-processed and fast-food. I suggest a fictional "political campaign" with posters, information from both sides, debates and an election.
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Johan Löfström
April 27, 2011
09:36AM |
How to involve as much of the local population as possible?
People can be put of by all kinds of factors when they are looking to get started with food production especially if they have never done it before and don't have access to land. A local group started guerilla gardening - it really raised the profile! Everyone in the town now knows about the issues, they see the herbs at the railway station and help themselves to a bunch on their way home. Fruit trees round the edge of the football pitch, at the local doctors surgery etc...
http://www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk/
Increasing involvement and awareness of the issues
How to involve as much of the local population as possible?
People can be put of by all kinds of factors when they are looking to get started with food production especially if they have never done it before and don't have access to land. A l...
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sara mo
April 27, 2011
09:16AM |
(UPDATED) 'I am not from far away' label
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A state funded TV advertising campaign that promotes a fun "I'm not from far away!" label. Local producers within the state have the option of purchasing the government subsidised label to include on their products if they would like t...
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Ben Hall
April 27, 2011
09:12AM |
The Farmer and The Chef
Instead of having food festivals and farmers markets separate from one another, how about pair farmers and food vendors side-by-side at a combined farmers and food market, where chefs cook up tasty meals built from the farmer's bounty.
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Robin Waldroup
April 27, 2011
07:53AM |
Food Calendar
A Calendar that shows seasonal products and recipes.
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Alonso José Grillo
April 20, 2011
04:54PM |
Rooftop Gardens
Connect businesses, gardeners and the community through locally grown food from rooftop gardens.
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Danielle Olson
April 05, 2011
06:50PM |
Micro-farming Urban Roof Network (MUrNw?)
Green roofs, Vertical farming, and many concepts regarding small-scale farm exist now. All are focused on the fact that there are lots of free space very close to the customer/consumer. And they all seem to propose DIY-farming on small scale.
Man...
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Johan Löfström
April 11, 2011
12:50PM |
10% for Queensland
Create a movement where organizations of all types – restaurants, supermarkets, schools, hospitals, companies, etc. – pledge to source 10% of their food from local suppliers.
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Cathy Tang
April 13, 2011
01:28PM |
Sustainable, functional products!
We try to avoid plastic and waste, but we are always on the move. Our bags get too heavy and too full. What if there were products readily available and functional to make things easier?
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Victoria Foster
April 12, 2011
12:24PM |
Building on "Agro-tourism," and "Food Bus"
Combining the Agro-Tourism and Food Bus ideas and adding bio-diesel transportation, biodynamic education and wine tasting. The goal being taking every effort to make the industry 100% self-sustaining.
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Matthew Collins
April 22, 2011
11:53PM |
From ice cream truck to mud truck - mobile urban agriculture
Kids come running out the door when they hear the ice cream truck coming down the road. They also love getting dirty. What if you combined the two as a mobile farm - not to buy your food, but to plant and take care of plants
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Victoria Foster
April 17, 2011
10:52PM |
Twin Cities - Time Machine - connection scheme
It was in 20th century very popular for cities to "link" to other cities in foreign nations into formalized "sisterhood-collaborations" for goodwill and for potential trade agreements. I think they were done mostly randomly in the past and not uti...
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Johan Löfström
April 07, 2011
10:44AM |
Krishi Class
Kids are the future of tomorrow and hence would it not be great if we could give them something that they would really cherish and that may help enrich their lives. So why don't we do this at school level. Schools could run a class specifically de...
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Amrutha Krishnan
April 08, 2011
03:24PM |
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 |
Agriculture Internship Program for High School Students
The government could collaborate with schools and urban farms to start a 12-week paid internship (educational stipend) for students to work on farms. Their efforts on the farm and in the community will inspire other young people and adults to unde...
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Priyanka Kodikal
April 22, 2011
03:57PM |
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 |
In Bogotá city when new housing developments are made, developers have to give up some land to the city. Why not use part of this area for Urban farming?
Bogotá Urban farms
In Bogotá city when new housing developments are made, developers have to give up some land to the city. Why not use part of this area for Urban farming?
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Alonso José Grillo
April 20, 2011
05:05PM |
The Laundry Garden
Locating community gardens with Laundromats increases access for women who have little extracurricular time to participate in healthy living activities. By integrating gardening, exercise, and health education into an already utilized space, we ca...
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Julia Nebrija
April 24, 2011
06:55AM |
The people's vegetable patch
Take the largest, most frequented public park. Set aside half an acre. Create a vegetable patch. Have public tending sessions every saturday morning. Everyone involved gets to reap what they sow.
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Ronan Harrington
April 06, 2011
09:23AM |
Know Your Earth Index? Get A Tax Break!
Numbers and figures appeal to shoppers’ sensibilities. It’s easy to compare costs and savings dollar for dollar. What if every time you purchase groceries, upon scanning the item, you see the Planet Cost displayed in addition to the dollar price a...
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Sheba Najmi
April 21, 2011
05:10PM |
