How is brighton sustainable

The Brighton and Hove food strategy aims to achieve a healthy, sustainable and fair food system for everyone in the city and beyond. Veg invasion coming your way! Posted January 24, Vegetables are the star of a new TV advertising campaign hoping to capture the imagination of year olds and encourage a love of veg.

Google Analytics. Online Training. Our Work. Our People. Hire Us. May 13, Eco Blog. Creative Bloom. The Brighton Waste House Grand Parade This award-winning project started out in involving over students, builders, carpenters and ecologists. Fareshare Sussex 7 Westergate Road Next on our earth-happy hot-spot list is Fareshare, a charitable project run by city gate community projects.

Brighton was the first to adopt a city-wide food strategy and the first to building food growing spaces into new housing developments. It was also first to require the council to commit to a food sourcing policy that sees schools and care homes buying in sustainable, local, fresh produce.

The policy involves the living wage, a ban on single-use plastics, and a focus on local suppliers. Durham, Middlesbrough, Cardiff and Bristol are just some of the cities that now have similar policies.

Other eco-minded cities have similar food webs too. It was set up in and links up groups in sometimes unexpected ways, tailoring people and projects to exactly what locals like, need and want. For example, the Real Junk Food Project, which operates around the country, runs a pay-as-you-feel cafe that pops up regularly in three Brighton sites. That personalised complexity can never really be done even by a local council and certainly not by government. It is still sending out meals a week. It also used its existing connection with schools to deliver food to families with children on free school meals, sometimes cooking and delivering 40 chilled and frozen meals per household.

And while saving supermarket waste is laudable, Iain is helping community food shops that are being set up by locals — which is happening across the country in response to Covid — to find local growers. This allows the shops to survive in the cut-throat world of supermarkets, which are known to squeeze producers on price. And when local growers get paid, more money stays in the local economy, instead of slipping into supermarket profits.