Sustainable Community Presentation

As a part of this fall's curriculum, I joined 4 other Emily Carr peers for a Co-op Directed Studies with a very inspiring scholar, Herb Barbolet. This really is a one-of-a-kind opportunity, to be able to work along side with a few individuals I very much respect, addressing such a critical issue on a global scale.

Herb is a leading food activist who devotes an enormous amount of time and effort to raise awareness on issues such as community development, energy conservation, sustainability and most importantly, Food Security. He is the founder of Farm Folk, City Folk (Vancouver local community for urban agriculture development), and has also directed/founded various non-profit organizations of community developments.

This last Saturday, me and two other team members sat in on his presentation of food security for an intensive course on sustainable community development (SFU). It's a good background research for my grad project.. made me re-think about coffee and sugar for sure.

The summary of the presentaiton is as follows:

The increasing need of food security validates the idea of urban agriculture. Herb's presentation articulates the problematic trend/situation existing in the current food industry. In order to improve the sustainability of food production process, local food production along is NOT enough. Instead, we must incorporate a well-thoughtout local food system align production and distribution.

Thanks to the thoughtful Jon for video-taping the speech. Unfortunately, the tape ran out 20 min prior to the end. But this shows a good deal of the presentation focus.
The presentation clip can be viewed at the following link,

Herb Barbolet - Sustainable Community Presentation at SFU (Sept. 20)