Ruth and David spoke last week at the SRA seminar “Lies, damned lies and food behaviours”. Chaired by Oxford academic Ceridwen Roberts, the event involved a presentation from Ruth and David (you can see the slides here) and a Q&A session with a small but perfectly formed audience. As frequently happens when presenting or discussing food [...]
We’ve recently come across this video of David’s speech at the 5th Annual Abergavenny Food Conference on 16th September, 2011. David spoke on topics including sustainable consumption and shopping behaviours, and explored some of the reasons why gaps between values and action on buying local food exist. Below is the video, courtesy of Miller Research [...]
This video is a great bit of environmental campaigning by Friends of the Earth – in stark contrast to the 10:10 video of a couple of weeks back.
Working late and this discussion group quote has tickled me… M: I did happen to go out for a meal with my wife last night and I was offered fresh asparagus, the asparagus season here is in June so it must have come from the other side of the world to be fresh. Q: What [...]
I spoke yesterday morning at ‘Food for thought’, a breakfast event examining ‘food choices and what they mean for health, wealth and the environment’ organised by our friends at the London Sustainability Exchange. Against the background set by the government’s new food strategy, Food Vision 2030, and alongside fellow speakers Dame Fiona Reynolds (director general of [...]