David Middleton Sustainability Conference: 28th September 2021
This blogpost provides the inputs to the afternoon workshop I’m facilitating at the Sustainability Conference on 28th September. A more comprehensive version, with links to more info (including answers to the questions), is in this document the 21st century challenge:...
Read Covid-19 commentary: Recovery and ratios . . . six examples
This blogpost gives more info about the six examples mentioned in the last one.
Read Covid-19 commentary: The Four Rs — Risk, Resilience, Recovery and . . . Ratios
Recovery: When to start? The answer is always now. So, where do we start?
Read National Food Strategy #12: Local risk and resilience
How well will Birmingham and other UK cities cope when (and it appears all too likely to be when not if) there are shortages and scarcities of food? We suspect not well at all.
Read Briefing Note: Risks and Resilience
Will Birmingham and other towns and cities in the UK have sufficient safe, nutritious food in the future?
Read Our food system as a ‘black box’
Imagine the food system is a black box. You can’t see what’s going in, nor see inside it. But emerging from it are all the food and drinks bought by all of us in Birmingham today. On the outside are a...
Read Why we need to think differently about our food supply network
Our food supply network is a complex system. And therefore has certain features which we need to take into account when we think about it, or seek to change it.
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