Food Share is an organization in Toronto, Ontario. On their website they explain wonderfully:
At FoodShare we work on food issues “from field to table” - meaning that we focus on the entire system that puts food on our tables: from the growing, processing and distribution of food to its purchasing, cooking and consumption.
We spoke with Rene Biberstein who works directly with the Food Link Hotline, which connects people to their neighborhood food resources.
They also have all sorts of food related info, including how-to’s for things like rooftop gardening and a month-by-month plan to starting your own community garden.
We have officially finished our traveling!
But wait!
Our posting will continue until we’re clean out of footage, so keep watching because we have about 30+ episodes to come!
Thanks to everyone who let us sleep on their floor, stick a camera in their face or otherwise made this trip possible.
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Kelly Lerner is an architect in Spokane, Washington who works with strawbale construction. She also wrote a book about green remodeling!
Here are some terms highlighted in the video:
Strawbale Construction: a building method that uses straw bales as structural elements, insulation, or both.
Infill:an urban planning term referring to the redevelopment of an existing developement or an underutilized space within a developed area.
Rastra: an insulated concrete form
Hydronic Heating: also known as ‘radiant floor heating’
R-value: efficiency rating for building insulation
Net-Zero: net energy consumption of the building is zero
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