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Evaluation
The Evaluation Phase is turning into quite the tasty dish! We've decided to extend the phase just a bit to give everyone the chance to weigh in on our Top 20 shortlist.
At the heart of this challenge lie issues of global sustainability and local happiness as ways to improve life for rural and urban communities. While our primary focus is Queensland Australia we are also looking for ideas that might have global impact given how universally felt this problem is.
Please take the time to evaluate the wonderful concepts and check back in on Thursday 9th of June when we announce the winners and move across to the Realisation Phase.
Qld-LoFE: the Queensland Local Food Exchange
The Queensland Local Food Exchange is a food exchange modeled after better known stock exchanges. Producers can register their crops/produce and consumers can buy directly from the producers. Prices, of course, will vary with supply and demand.
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Arjan Tupan
April 06, 2011
06:33AM |
50 Within 50
Participating schools will source 50% of their food within 50 miles and the other 50% is sourced within Australasia.
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Jennifer Tam
April 12, 2011
07:10AM |
Window to the Farm
A startup business that boosts food traceability and brings producers closer to consumers. The startup would create a wiki style platform for food providers to share their provenance and information on their products. It would sell kits to schoo...
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Tom Hulme
April 05, 2011
12:06PM |
UPDATED: Indigenious and Multicultural Recipe Book
Celebrate QLD's multiculturalism and cultural diversity and how it links to food. Refugee and migrants are important parts of our community and contribute to our food culture (examples growing Asian greens, tropical fruits). It helps send the me...
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Yen
April 14, 2011
01:19PM |
Closing the Farmers Market Loop
Producers selling at Farmers' Markets like the returns generated by their direct-to-retail mode – but have a risk of unsold produce at the close of the market. Developing a subscription list of consumers who would be keen to buy surplus stock and ...
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Paul Keys
April 26, 2011
05:41AM |
UPDATED: Rethinking Food Transportation (suggesting a three-step change-process)
For achieving this rethinking and implementing change successfully, we require the understanding of the holistic network behind the current situation. Below I suggest a change-process which emphasises exactly that necessity: the Multilevel Service...
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Jakob Trischler
April 10, 2011
02:58AM |
Redesign the supermarket layout based on food miles... UPDATED
(Initial concept is below)
** Update**
Since building upon this concept through some intense brainstorming with everyone at the OpenIDEO workshop in Brisbane, this concept has developed into 'The Super Challenge: An Australian Event', which (...
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Charlotte Fliegner
April 22, 2011
04:02AM |
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 |
Discover Local
(Revised 5.19.11) Discover Local is a credit card that is designed to enhance the local producer's ability to create value for the customer, while increasing customer awareness and loyalty.
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Kirk Soderstrom
April 26, 2011
03:15AM |
Market Days + Food Trucks = Serving Low-income Neighborhoods
What if food trucks sold fresh produce instead of hotdogs? Traveling vendors can set-up shop in different neighborhoods on specific days in order to provide fresh food to locals. By providing mobile service, particularly to under-served urban ne...
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Cory Quach
April 08, 2011
08:15PM |
A celebration of imperfection
Fruit and veg have become size 8 models. They all look identical, they all glisten, radiate and scream "look at me, I'm perfect". Following generations of comfortability with mass produced identicalness, we've forgotten about the vibrancy and dyna...
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David Stocks
April 08, 2011
03:04PM |
**UPDATED** Strategic Geography and the 'Food Hub' (still a working title)
Learning from the repeated success of the <a href="http://www.cityofrochester.gov/publicmarket/">Rochester Public Market</a>, I am suggesting developing a program or organization (i.e. Farmers-Market-in-a-Box, similar to http://imaginationplaygrou...
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Lauren Dellaquila
April 24, 2011
12:30AM |
Hold Seasonal "Open House" Days at Local Farms
Inspired by artist "open studio" days, the Queensland government could sponsor a 4x yearly "Open House" day at local farms to get urban residents more connected to their local food producers. During the seasonal Open House days, urbanites would ge...
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Rachel Greenwald
April 07, 2011
12:58PM |
Eatcyclopedia: A Phone App to Help Connect and Inform
UPDATED: Although interactive apps are useful, another possibility for an app is a prebuilt app that can be used offline like an encyclopedia that focuses on food production and consumption. Accessing the information doesn’t have to take place at ...
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Sina Mossayeb
April 11, 2011
04:06AM |
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 |
Building 'Transparency' App (updated)
Wouldn't it be great to have a better understanding of where the food in our supermarkets comes from? Imagine if you could scan a bar code and be shown instant information on where the food has come from, who the producer is and how long it took t...
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Louise Wilson
April 05, 2011
03:35PM |
Adopt-A-Farmer
With the majority of govt. Agricultural-Subsidies reaching out to only large-scale farmers, India's predominant small-scale farming communities are left in the shade. Besides the lack of support the farmers face adverse weather conditions resultin...
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Kaushik Eshwar
April 05, 2011
12:39PM |
(UPDATED) 'I am not from far away' label
(UPDATED)
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 |
Regional Food System+Commercial Kitchen+Food Entrepreneur Incubator=Collaborative Community
Central to this model is a local incubator kitchen and food storage space. Acting as a multi-sided platform, the incubator kitchen serves both a network of regional to local farmers and the urban community. Food entrepreneurs are emerging everywhe...
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Samantha Harmon
April 26, 2011
05:08PM |
Public Kitchen
UPDATED! This is an idea for a public kitchen where you can go and bring any product you would like to process, fruit for juices or marmelade, vegetables for pickles, meet or fish for smoking... The shop provides the necessary equipment as well as...
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Veronika
April 05, 2011
12:00PM |
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