From your own city – Rotterdam edition

21-9-2012

On the 22nd of September the urban farm restaurant ‘Uit je eigen stad’ opens in Rotterdam. Most ingredients are from the local urban farm in the harbour area of the city.

Human powered coffee

21-9-2012

The Velopresso is a mobile pedal powered coffee bar. The stylish designed verhicle is silent, environmental friendly and doesn’t depend on power supply.

Schools connect with local farms

19-9-2012

The Californian initiative Ag Link connects schools to the local farmers. Before, all the fruits and vegetables where order outside California, whilst most of the schools are surrounded by farmers. Ag Link is an online initiative to ensure that more school kids will eat fruits and vegetables and will get to know the farmers.

Cider of unused fruit

18-9-2012

In 2010, initiators John Burgess, Peter Newton and Rochelle Schwartz started to produce cider made of unused apples (and pears). This unused fruit comes from the many apple trees in the suburban of London, which caused ruined laws and attracted wasps. They started to collect this fruit to produce cider. Consumers who delivered the apples, receive the cider and a discount on more bottles.

Urban farming at Hoog Catharijne

14-9-2012

Corio and Biet & Boon are working together to develop a pop-up roof garden project on shopping mall Hoog Catharijne in Utrecht. The harvest goes to local restaurants, offices and volunteers. Earlier this year the largest roof garden opened in Amsterdam.

Discount for using the sustainable Tiffin container

5-9-2012

 about the project.The fastfood industry produces a lot of waste – all containers associated with “takeout” or “TO GO” items must be re-thought. The Tiffin Project Foundation did this. Buying a Tiffin Project Container at $ 25 means you’re reducing the Take-out waste, support local agriculture (4$ of each container is used to generate money to pay back the price difference between locally grown and mass production to the restaurant owner) and get a discount at your foodorder! Read more at their website The Tiffin Project. Who is going to start this in The Netherlands? 

Noorderparkbar made of second-hand materials

5-9-2012

The Noorderparkbar in Amsterdam, opened in April 2012, is financed by crowd-funding. Designers Bureau SLA and Overtreders W decided to save expenses by using 100% second-hand materials. An ancient Japanese technique, shou sugi ban, was used to produce a cost-effective, low-maintenance exterior cladding of charred wood. More pictures on  The Pop-Up City.

The first Urban Food Week in London

3-9-2012

This September (10-16), London will feast on the fabulous local produce being grown, produced and cooked on its doorstep, with the capital city’s first Urban Food Week . The week of activities is being organised to highlight the importance of buying and eating local food, urban growing and planting forage for bees. During the week, restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs across the city will be showcasing dishes and drinks made with ultra-local fruit, veg and herbs from urban farms, and from London honey cultivated in community beehives.

Small sustainable gesture

3-9-2012

The Royal Cliff Beach Resort in Pattaya, Thailand, has been awarded the ISO 14001 certification (internationally recognised Environmental Management System (EMS)). As guest, you will notice this by the laundry request (almost standard nowadays) and for example by a recyclable and unrecyclable wastebin in the room.

Starbucks makes laundry detergent out of coffee grounds

31-8-2012

Starbucks works together with biorefinery scientists to transform food waste into key ingredients for laundry detergent, plastics and other everyday products. The coffee makers announced this at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society’. As mentioned before Starbucks was already involved in local projects before like the use of coffee grounds for growing mushrooms.

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