EatEngland: news
Great Start to 2012 (Jan): we have new contracts with Bennett Hay, Sustaination and are getting some help from Rumble Chat
Thames Festival launches this years foodie programme (July 11): a focus on fish and the best artisans London can offer: Eat England's work is done, these guys really have the message - let us know if you'd like us to show you around, it's a multi cultural feast!
Real food Market this weekend and every weekend (July 11) - WhatPhilips doing here is changing the London food scene - London's newest and best weekly food market?
Guild of Fine Food announce Great Taste Awards Winners (July 11) - over 7000 entries and only just over 100 3* products: Tom has been luckky enough to taste most of them recently!!
#Livewell EatEngland (April/May 2011) - Tom starts to live the WWF-UK Livewell lifestyle: cutting his daily foods embedded carbon intake dowwn from around 8kgs per day to below 5kgs - let's see how it goes?
WWF-UK Livewell 2020 report published (Jan 11) A diet is based on nutritional guidelines from the government for eating healthily – and it will also help us meet the 2020 targets for greenhouse gas reductions, as laid out the in UK Climate Change Act.
Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) (Oct 10) waste report for download here.
In brief, the restaurants surveyed produced an average of 0.48kg of food waste per diner. On average:
65% from preparation - 30% from customers’ plates - 5% classified as ‘spoilage’ - out-of-date or unusable items
The report also calculates that if an average restaurant reduced its food waste by just 20% it could generate annual savings of: Over 4 tonnes of food waste per restaurant
More than £2,000 from avoided food purchase costs
The Greenhouse at Tring (Oct 10) is the first Sustainable Restaurant Association member to get 3 stars - congratulations, we're delighted for you guys
Rosie Boycott (Jun 2010) announces new London Food Board line-up: Tom has been appointed a Board Member advising on the implimentation of the Londdon Food Strategy
Otarian website goes live with just 10 days before the worlds first low carbon restaurant opens in Bleeker Street, New York!!!! (9 April 2010)
These guys are going to raise the susatianbility bar in the fast food sector, not just being great food, but also ultra low carbon
With our clients we're one of sixty corporations measuring the greenhouse gas emissions of their products and supply chains by road testing the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Developments (WBCSD) which is part of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative (Feb 2010)
Independent Newspaper (Feb 2010) 50 Best Coffee Shops in the UK - Mentions the 4 best coffee roaster we've bought coffee from: Tea & Coffee Plant; Union; Monmouth & Grumpy Mule & Tom's favourite coffee shops.
DEFRA's PAS2050 review (Dec 09):working with 35 of the countries top carbon footprinting experts we've been advising DEFRA on the best ways forward to ensure more companies have the tools to reduce their impacts. We passionately believe PAS2050 is the world's best standard to achieve this, but like many industry and government experts believe it has to become more accessible, cheaper and less time consuming
Footprint Expert (Dec 09): we are now fully authorised and trained by The Carbon Trust to undertake a full carbon foot print of your products!
WRI Greenhouse Gas Product Footprinting (Nov 09): we're contributing to their new product standards
Mintel (June 09) Findings from Mintel suggest healthy menu items still face a tough battle for acceptance
EU, Joint Research Centre – (EU, 2008, relaesed June 09) Meat and dairy products contribute on average 24% to the environmental impacts from the total final consumption in EU-27 [GHG contribution is around 15%], while constituting only 6% of the economic value
University of Reading: Centre for Agricultural Strategy (24 June, 09) Organic produces: 60% of conventional cereals yeilds; 70% of conventional milk volumes; 68% more beef and 55% more sheep meat (?); Pig and poultry would fall to some 30% of conventional levels; Eggs to 73% of the conventional numbers
Daily Telegraph (24 June 09, p.7) Cows that burp less methane to be bred: A cow that burps less is being bred by Canadian scientists in an attempt to reduce the greenhouse gases responsible for global warming.
Mintel (Jan 09) Over 5 million adults already hard hit as Britain braces itself for a full-blown recession
Food Magazine (20 Mar) Getting on famously: Celeb's and junk food Campaigners at The Food Commission have criticised celebrities for promoting high fat, saturated fat, sugar or salt food products.
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Sustainable Development Commission (26 Mar) Prosperity Without Growth? New report by the Sustainable Development Commission argues that the pursuit of economic growth is one of the root causes of the current financial crisis, as well contributing to a growing environmental crisis and undermining well-being in developed countries.
New food policy book on Food Policy. Tim Lang, David Barling and Martin Caraher from the Centre for Food Policy at City University have published a new book entitled Food Policy: integrating health, environment and society.