CLIMATE CHANGE LECTURE SERIES

Part of the 2010 RIBA Climate Change Lecture series:

with MICHAEL PAWLYN (Director, Exploration & project architect of the Eden Centre)
& CAROLYN STEEL (author HUNGRY CITY, how food shapes our lives)

Text on poster:

How to feed a city, The Ecologist (www.theecologist.org), Carolyn Steel, 1st June, 2009

We can continue to squander our resources and react to food crises as they happen, or we can fundamentally change the way the food systems work. Sitopia is really a state of mind; a way of recalibrating the values by which we live. It privileges food. Feeding cities has never been easy. On the contrary, it could be described as mankind’s oldest self-imposed dilemma. The problem is that even though people living in cities don’t tend to produce their own food, whether they realise it or not, they still dwell on the land. The resultant distance (in all senses) between city-dwellers and their food is a paradox at the core of civilisation; resolving it is the greatest challenge of our time. Cities have been around for some 5,500 years, yet for most of that period the number of people who lived in them represented a tiny fraction of the global population.

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