“Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and […]
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Want to Change the World? Change the Way you eat!
“The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce […]
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“Food waste is an urgent, but solvable, global challenge. One third of all food produced globally is wasted and in Canada 47% of food waste can be attributed to households. “ ~ Love Food, Hate Waste (Canada) With Thanksgiving around the corner and not so far Christmas and other celebrations, we shift our attention to food: human celebrations […]
Read MoreFeaturing Food Leaders: Deirdre Goudriaan
“We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling.” ~–Jimmy Neil Smith, Director of the International Storytelling Center And this week, we continue with stories: the stories of the people like Deirdre, who has been the coordinator for the Surrey & White Rock […]
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