"Urban Agriculture And Sustainable Food"
Saturday December 19,
10 AM to 11 AM SL time
Urban agriculture and sustainable food: field trip to a Second Life backyard food garden with Delia Lake
UN Sustainable Development Goal #2 is Zero Hunger, yet worldwide, hunger is increasing.
- Getting fresh food to people with little waste and reduced greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs)
- Food – one of the essentials for life.
- Over 4 B people worldwide and growing live in urban areas.
- 1/3 of food produced worldwide is wasted, with people in affluent
countries wasting even more, while almost 1 B people experiencing food
insecurity.
Most food is produced far away from where it is eaten and is
transported to us. All told, it’s estimated that it takes about 10 kcal
of energy for every 1 kcal of food we get.
Can we get fresh food to people with little waste and reduced
greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs)? Yes, we could grow a significant
portion of our food in or near urban areas where most people eat it, but
as Joni Mitchell said it in Big Yellow Taxi (1970). “Don’t it always
seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone? They
paved paradise, put up a parking lot.”
There is a nascent and growing movement toward urban and suburban
farming. I have been growing vegetables in real-life urban environments for
decades, and in SL since 2008. On this Second Life field trip we’ll
explore a few ways that each of us might advance urban farming in our
solid lives.
Organizer: Linda M. Kelley
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https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Science%20Circle/114/206/30
