[getsmart-l] Food For Talk - Nov. 23

[foodfortalk at utoronto.ca]

PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY
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Food For Talk presents:

John Knechtel, director of Alphabet City
FOOD CITY: The infrastructure of eating local
Friday, November 23, 2:00-4:00 pm
York University, HNES 140

The York University Bookstore will be selling FOOD, Alphabet City?s  
new release. Find out more about Alphabet City and read excerpts from  
FOOD at http://alphabet-city.org/

Foodsheds, Footprints and Foodmiles
Jennifer Forkes
December 7, 2:00-4:00 pm
University of Toronto, University College
Room A101

One of the main driving forces behind the current interest in local  
food is the desire and need to reduce the ecological impacts arising  
from food consumption. This seminar talk presents an overview and  
application of familiar and novel quantitative tools that help to   
reveal the nature and impacts of the relationships between urban   
consumers and the food system. Using Arthur Getz?s metaphor of the  
foodshed as starting point and the City of Toronto/GTA Region as  
examples, these tools aim to provide answers to questions such as -  
where is our food coming from?, where do our wastes go? and what  are  
the overall ecological impacts of our choices?.

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'Food for Talk' provides a place for conversations to take place  
between people who work with communities, government and universities  
to explore the emerging and challenging issues around food security,  
agricultural transformation, and local food alternatives/networks.
This series is jointly sponsored by the Centre for Urban Health  
Initiatives at the University of Toronto, York University Faculty of  
Environmental Studies, the Ryerson Centre for Studies in Food  
Security, and the Toronto Food Policy Council.

For more information about the seminar series, contact Kim  
Crichton-Struthers at foodfortalk at utoronto.ca or telephone the Centre  
for Urban Health Initiatives at 416-978-7223.

Previous Food For Talk seminars are presently available in digital  
audio format at the website of the Ryerson Centre for Studies in Food  
Security, www.ryerson.ca/foodsecurity and the Centre For Urban Health  
Initiatives website, http://www.cuhi.utoronto.ca/