Comments on: Changing the Urban Relationship to Food

By: ninel conde

ninel conde — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:14:16 +0000

My country is the number of childhood obesity. I wonder, why this kind of programs do not develop in this kind of countries.

Recently, the government made a law, banning junk food in schools. But let’s be honest … It is the cheapest.

At least here, eating healthy is more expensive.

There are many studies on cryogenic food, and now even eat vegetables is scary, …

Anyway … Hopefully, you who have the resources, look a little to the south, just have to cross the border.

Ninel.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:14:25 +0000

It does not take land to grow at least part of one’s food, but it does take electricity. There are advances lately with the use lf LED ultra bright lights that use little power, produce little heat, and give intense levels of wavelength specific lighting. It is now possible to grow in a spare room, anwhere there is a plug.

My family and I are using this method to start seedlings (lights can be left on 24 hours) to accelerate their transplantation to the garden.

In addition, we are utilizing dual-use and miniaturized appliances, an electric car from 1982, and plans for an ultra insulated greenhouse… with no windows.

By: Daria Dorosh

Daria Dorosh — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:01:02 +0000

Our current food practices are indeed problematic and evidenced in the health of our population. Since food is now ‘designed’ for qualities other than nutrition, such as extended shelf life and laced with addictive ingredients to increase sales, it is a complex social product that can only be ‘un-designed’ by the research of groups such as the Urban Design Lab. I don’t see how we can move toward a National Health Care Program without studying and understanding the many complex issues embedded in our food.

By: Ellen Rymshaw

Ellen Rymshaw — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:25:41 +0000

It’s encouraging to see that some advances are being made in this very complex issue of food quality and availability in urban settings. As someone who has responded to acute malnutrition crises in African settings, I recognize that we often overlook chronic malnutrition that is silently unfolding in urban environments everywhere – including the US. The tremendous challenge to be overcome is complacency – political, academic and social.