http://www.hungrycitybook.co.uk/blog How Food Shapes Our Lives Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:19:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am delighted to say that Hungry City is now available in Chinese. It is published by the China Renmin University Press. I would love to hear from anyone who has read it in Chinese, and what they think of it! http://www.hungrycitybook.co.uk/blog/?p=105 As regular readers of this irregular blog will know, I do a lot of work in the Netherlands. The Dutch, of course, have their reasons for being interested in food and cities. The first nation on earth to be predominantly urban and one of the most land-starved, they know a ... http://www.hungrycitybook.co.uk/blog/?p=103 At first, I thought it was a hoax. A news flash on the BBC announcing that all UK flights were cancelled seemed like science fiction. Five days later, of course, the entire world knows all about Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull glacier and the ash cloud that continues to block air travel over ... http://www.hungrycitybook.co.uk/blog/?p=102 This year I will be a visiting research fellow and lecturer at Wageningen University, where I will be working with Han Wiskerke, Chair of the Rural Sociology Group, to explore sitopian themes around Food and the City. Wageningen has one of the largest agriculture-based research and teaching programmes in the ... http://www.hungrycitybook.co.uk/blog/?p=100 It seems a bit strange to be blogging about COP15 in the grip of the coldest winter in the northern hemisphere for decades, but, if anything, the fact that the big freeze has largely wiped the conference off the headlines has only increased the damaging consequences of what turned out ... http://www.hungrycitybook.co.uk/blog/?p=97 It has taken me rather longer to write about the CLEAR Village Lab than it should, partly because the event was so mentally, emotionally and physically knackering, that I spent the following week comatose. Now that my body has returned to something close to functionality, I peer at the Lab ... http://www.hungrycitybook.co.uk/blog/?p=96 Last week I was the guest of the Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving (PBL), or Netherlands Environment Assessment Agency, where I was a keynote speaker at their annual conference. The English translation of PBL is actually rather misleading, since it is the result of the recent merger of two Dutch government ... http://www.hungrycitybook.co.uk/blog/?p=95 Last week marked the start of a new collaboration between myself and Stroom Den Haag, a two-year programme entitled Foodprint-Sitopia. Part of my own work in developing sitopia as a collaborative, conceptual and practical design tool, this will unfold as part of Stroom's ongoing Foodprint programme, through a series of ... http://www.hungrycitybook.co.uk/blog/?p=93 I have just spent two days at the Eden Project, one of those rare places where simply to spend time is to feel energised and inspired. Created by the remarkable Tim Smit (whose humorous, laid-back demeanor belies his formidable drive) Eden has become symbolic of an optimistic, can-do approach to ... http://www.hungrycitybook.co.uk/blog/?p=92 I'm delighted to say that my TED talk, given at the TEDGlobal conference at Oxford in July, has just gone live. I'm not sure whether I will be able to bear to watch it, but if you are interested, it does present most of the ideas in my book in ... http://www.hungrycitybook.co.uk/blog/?p=91