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Eco Hero: Arthur Potts Dawson

Sally Hill | 25.08.10

Arthur Potts Dawson has been a professional chef for twenty-three years.

In 2006, he designed and created two sustainably aware urban restaurants, Acorn House and Water House in London.

Arthur’s latest project is The Peoples Supermarket, a not for profit, co-operative and social enterprise. Its members work voluntarily, helping to reduce business costs and keep the food cheap as well as good. The idea of the supermarket is to create an urban community business that supports British rural farming.

Arthur is also supporting One Pot Pledge and its attempt to get everyone recognizing the superior flavour of homegrown food.

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Greenhouse Weekly Roundup

Sally Hill | 27.08.10

As organic fortnight and the 2010 Bristol Organic Food Festival approach, there has been a flurry of discussion around organic issues.

While I'm sure the festival, 11th - 12th September, will already be highlighted on many people's calendars, it is interesting to take a deeper look at some of the reasons why it's important to support organic industries, and push organic food and products further into the mainstream.

Our Eco Hero this week was Arthur Potts Dawson, a champion of the organic issue as well as other related campaigns such as food waste. He has opened two sustainably-aware restaurants, Acorn House and Water House in London, and created the The People's Supermarket, a not-for-profit co-operative aiming to share cheap and good food.

Here are the food stories on our radar this week:

'Food Figures Need a Pinch of Salt'
An interesting article pointing out that the framing of global food shortages could fuel, rather than tame, harmful industrial agriculture
(BBC)

'Organic Food Comes of Age At Bristol's Organic Food Festival'
Held at Bristol Harbourside and celebrating its 10th anniversary, Europe's largest organic festival is a feast of food, drink and fabric that doesn't cost the earth
(The Ecologist)

'Great British Waste Menu'
New program on BBC bringing the issue of food waste, at every link in the food chain, to our attention
(BBC)

'Mediterranean Diet to be Awarded UNESCO Status'
The Mediterranean diet of olive oil, pasta, tomatoes and fish is to be awarded Unesco World Heritage status to safeguard it from the onslaught of junk food and foreign impostors, Italy's agriculture minister said.
(Telegraph)

And the other green stories we loved this week:

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