Slow food

Seville gets mean on green

At a time when unemployment is enemy number one across the country, April saw the launch of a new monument to Seville which cost a grand total of 123 million euros - 70% more expensive than first chalked. Things don't look good before local elections take place in Spain on 22 May. But there is some future somewhere, and the capital of Andalusia has some green goods despite its bad municipal management. Between solar energy successes, local organic producers and the increase in bicycle lanes in the city, there is definitely a case to be made for green economy in Seville. That doesn't mean it's the place for greenwashing though. Fifth edition in a 2011 monthly series, ‘Green Europe on the ground’ (Image: (cc) Franie Frou Frou/ Flickr)

• Read the special edition Seville gets mean on green
• Organic Seville: too many exports, not enough young workers or local mouths
• Rolling down 120km of bike lane in Seville
• Seville’s photovoltaic energy, as invented by Archimedes
• Seville: growing organic produce on Spanish asphalt

Student guide: community-supported agriculture in France

The system of associations for community-supported agriculture (French initials AMAP) has been growing in Europe over the last 20 years. In recent years, student 'AMAPs' have multiplied on campuses. From Nantes to Palermo, a look between pickers and carrots

by jonathan boureau @ // 04/04/11

slow food, environment, ecology, lifestyle, food, globalisation, climate change

M**Bun, Eataly, GROM: the organic flavour in Turin

Eating well can save the environment, economy, and local heritage, according to the Slow Food Movement, an international non-profit culinary educational organisation which was founded in 1989 by the Italian writer Carlo Petrini. Its appetising premise is to combat the acculturating effects of corporate America & co. through the affirmation of local, fresh, organic food. Its phrased in its manifesto as ‘the right to pleasure’, and in Turin, it’s a right that’s being energetically exercised

by sara mojtehedzadeh @ // 17/12/09

slow food, italy, economy, economic crisis, business, world financial crisis, food

Berlinale documentary: FOOD inc - what are you eating?

Do producers deliberately hide information about the origins, ingredients or the production process? American director Robert Kenner investigates in the primary phase of the chain, right into the animal factories and agricultural fields

by Ole Skambraks @ , TAU* Mendez Hernandez @ // 11/02/09

slow food, economy, lobby, health, food, cine, film