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My Design Quotient

373,104,12.6,540

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Inspiration: 373pt
Concepting: 104pt
Evaluation: 13pt
Collaboration: 540pt
Total: 1030pt

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My Challenges

How might we better connect food production and consumption?

How can we raise kids' awareness of the benefits of fresh food so they can make better choices?

FlavourCrusader

"Share the Deliciousness You Made. Join the Crusade."

All Contributions

The People's Produkt

The People's Produkt helps transform "passive food consumers" into "active food citizens". By being involved in the the food production process (from paddock to plate) the people will help promote too. :p :p :p

April 17, 2011, 10:34PM 660 views 2 comments 2 applause

Jammin' unit

There are many forms of cooking that are pleasurable that take more time and more knowledge. Even basic food skills like fruit and vegetable prep are being lost. Food education on wheels --> public kitchen + nonna + mobile = Jammin' unit

April 14, 2011, 07:30AM 499 views 4 comments 5 applause

FACE YR FOOD

FACE YR FOOD aims to celebrate and connect efforts around food to create larger scale change by: * raising awareness of the various issues * showing people how they can act * making it easy, fun and most of all, delicious (not preachy!) * spread the desired behaviour through online/offline social networks

April 14, 2011, 02:12AM 949 views 9 comments 7 applause

Growing your own

Guru gardeners

Gardeners sharing their passion and produce show us that growing your own food is attainable. My kitchen garden was inspired by Peter Cundall, the Mancunian who hosted *Gardening Australia*.

April 02, 2011, 11:50PM 476 views 0 comments 2 applause

Growing your own

Thumbnail : The power of community: how Cuba survived peak oil

Cuba : urban agriculture : permaculture

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate.

April 02, 2011, 11:04PM 732 views 2 comments 6 applause

Connecting communities

Everyone needs a nonna

My neighbour was one of my greatest food influences. As a child, I was transfixed, watching her make fettucine. She would give me some; I'd run home and my mum would cook it. I remember how gloriously egg-y it tasted; they raised laying hens too.

April 02, 2011, 02:44AM 474 views 2 comments 0 applause

Connecting communities

Thumbnail : would you like some tail with that?

Nose to tail (and the insides too)!

The less "prime" meat is often the tastiest. Slow cooked shank, fish cheeks, liver... miam! For people who raise and slaughter their own meat it's also about respecting the life and not wasting anything. In Asian cultures, it's pretty normal!

April 02, 2011, 01:54AM 708 views 4 comments 2 applause

Connecting communities

REAL local food

Rene Redzepi heads NOMA, awarded best restaurant of the year 2010. They specialise in food from the Nordic regions: Icelandic skyr curd, halibut, Greenland musk ox, berries and water. He questioned the absence of native foods on our menus.

April 02, 2011, 12:53AM 682 views 0 comments 1 applause

Connecting communities

Midnight Basketball / Playing in the Shadows

Playing in the Shadows is a documentary. You're taken on a kid's eye view and connected to the Woolloomooloo kids: Jaidyn, Celine, Jerry and Ainsley. A new night-time basketball program entered their neighborhood; it helped transform their lives.

March 30, 2011, 10:28PM 653 views 2 comments 1 applause

Growing your own

The Urban Farming Guys

We are the urban experiment… about 20 families who have purposefully uprooted from out of their comfortable suburban homes and moved into one of the worst neighborhoods in Kansas City.

March 30, 2011, 10:00PM 477 views 4 comments 4 applause

Growing your own

We're all going to farm school

Stone Barns Center works to increase awareness of healthy, seasonal & sustainable food, train farmers in resilient, restorative farming techniques, educate children about the sources of their food & prepare them to steward the land that provides it.

March 30, 2011, 05:26AM 515 views 2 comments 3 applause

Innovations in food

DIY Gen-Y Farmers

As farmers are getting older & young, rural people go to the mines-it begs the question-who is going to produce food for the future? How can they be attracted & retained? Maybe there are clues here. The U.S.A sees some interest from the young.

March 30, 2011, 05:09AM 943 views 2 comments 4 applause

Inspire us

When your life is an Aga; your life is food

Jed is an awesome cook, I can just tell. I've never met her; never eaten her food. Yet her descriptions are so evocative. When I can eat Mexican, Tibetan or Peruvian in Sydney... I dream of her home-cooked food.

March 28, 2011, 11:50AM 468 views 0 comments 1 applause

Growing your own

Food safety, especially for children

Robyn 0'Brien shares her story; one of her children had a dangerous allergic reaction to a "typical" breakfast. Her mission to unearth the cause revealed more about the food industry than she could stomach.

March 27, 2011, 07:58AM 772 views 6 comments 5 applause

Innovations in food