Food service organisations are well placed to make a big dent in greenhouse gas emissions just by reducing how much meat they serve. The World Resource Institute’s Coolfood Quick Guide shows them how. And...
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Mirka Råberg and Olivia Fokeerah, who both work for Forum Virium Helsinki, the City of Helsinki’s innovation company, in Finland. In it, they explore how cities can...
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Lukas Sloet, Policy Officer for Solar Energy, and Tabita Slimmens, Communications Specialist in Sustainability, both working for the City of Amsterdam. They explore the often-overlooked harmful implications...
How did Seoul turn a backed-up expressway into a tranquil urban stream? We take a look at the landmark Cheonggyecheon River Restoration project and ask why, almost 20 year later, this peaceful pocket in...
Urbanisation in the post-industrial age led to the burial of waterways to make way for buildings, roads, and public spaces. Water, though, cushions the blow of climate change, so many cities are raising channels...
When it comes to reducing food waste, Matt Homewood isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty. As Instagram’s An Urban Harvester, he’s amassed a sizeable following documenting the shocking amount of edible food supermarkets...
How do we unlock urban agriculture’s potential? By improving policies, spreading knowledge, and implementing a supportive network. This is the work of European Forum on Urban Agriculture, an EU project determined to help urban...
How to turn unused land into an urban farm? Ask The Foodprint Lab! Or use the land sharing platform Grow Here. Specialised in bringing urban agriculture into cities, this company – and the people...
How can changing the way we store and preserve our food reduce waste in the interests of a more sustainable future? And what do cities have to do with it? We unpack these questions...
Christopher Leow has spent more than a decade working in Singapore’s burgeoning urban agriculture industry. We chat to him about his unique journey, why growing in the city continues to gain ground, and the...
Space in cities is limited. Urban farming signals better times for food security but if there’s a future in it, we need to find ways to make it fit around existing land uses. When...
From farming fish in high-tech warehouses to growing mushrooms under city streets, interest in urban agriculture is well and truly coming into season. But producing food in urban areas is nothing new, and there’s...
Meat may be one of the most controversial topics in sustainability discourse. It’s a major contributor to climate change emissions, for one, and vegan advocates have a hard time convincing diehard carnivores to change...
Food security will be one of the greatest challenges that humans face in the years ahead. Urban agriculture reduces reliance on rural imports, but a bad harvest can threaten financial viability of small producers...
In our throwaway culture, binning a broken object and buying a replacement is often the easiest, and cheapest, solution. But the take-make-waste economy has serious costs – for the environment and for society.
So, what...
Would you eat misshapen fruit or vegetables to save our planet? Portuguese co-op Fruta Feia successfully diverts ‘ugly’ produce from waste streams by buying it directly from farmers and selling it to customers in...
Living on the water might sound like the vision of a future where climate change has forced humanity to adapt to the rise in sea levels, but Schoonschip in Amsterdam proves that 'building' on...
From lab-grown meat to farming underground, there are plenty of bold new ideas promising to revolutionise our food system. But what can we do today? The city of Copenhagen is leading the way in...