Resources
Resources
Sharing resources and learning opportunities is an important part of working towards a shared vision. Check out the interesting, insightful and useful resources including documents we've published, books, blogs and articles we're reading, and recordings of events we've been too.
Documents we've produced
- INFC Jury check-in deck PDF (17.7 MB)
- Guelph-Wellington Food Policy Council PDF (517 KB)
- Leveraging Municipal Assets in a Circular Economy PDF (688 KB)
- New Food Economy Skills and Training – University of Guelph and Conestoga College PDF (551 KB)
- Governing a Digital Circular Economy PDF (1.3 MB)
- Envisioning a Circular Food Economy: Funding and Financing Ecosystem PDF (5.2 MB)
- Envisioning a Circular Food Economy: Theory of Change for Smart Cities PDF (342 KB)
- Envisioning a Circular Food Economy: Circular Food Economy Innovation Hub (CFE iHub) PDF (1 MB)
- Envisioning a Circular Food Economy: Building Confidence in Smart City Policy PDF (372 KB)
- Cultivating community and connection PDF (8 MB)
- Envisioning a Circular Food Economy: Building Confidence in Smart City Policy PDF (372 KB)
- Smart Cities Booklet (also called Plain Language Booklet) PDF (4 MB)
- Smart Cities Challenge Final Proposal PDF (3 MB)
What we're reading (in no particular order)
Uncertain Harvest questions scientists, chefs, activists, entrepreneurs, farmers, philosophers, and engineers working on the global future of food on how to make a more equitable, safe, sustainable, and plentiful food future. Examining cutting-edge research on the science, culture, and economics of food, the authors present a roadmap for a global food policy, while examining eight foods that could save us: algae, caribou, kale, millet, tuna, crickets, milk, and rice.
Frontline Farmers introduces readers to the National Farmers Union (NFU). For over fifty years, the NFU has been on the frontlines of our food system. This book collects the voices of NFU members who tell the stories of the key struggles of the progressive farm movement in Canada: fighting to build viable rural communities, protecting the family farm and creating socially just and ecologically sustainable food systems. Frontline Farmers reveals that the stakes for controlling our food in Canada have never been higher.
Doughnut Economics offers a radically new compass for guiding global development, government policy, and corporate strategy, and sets new standards for what economic success looks like. Raworth handpicks the best emergent ideas-from ecological, behavioral, feminist, and institutional economics to complexity thinking and Earth-systems science-to address this question: How can we turn economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive, into economies that make us thrive, whether or not they grow?
What we're talking about
Where we've been
Podcast Feature: Designing a Circular, Regenerative Food System
May 2021
Smart Cities Office Executive Director and Our Food Future leader Barb Swartzentruber along with several other guests from the Guelph Wellington region were featured on Trickle Up Design's new podcast series: Designing a Humane Future. The episode focuses on Designing a Circular, Regenerative Food System and is a terrific and comprehensive exploration of the circular food economy. Listen to hear more about the work Our Food Future is doing on creating a circular food economy in the Guelph Wellington region.
Click here to listen to the episode
Guelph-Wellington Urban Agriculture Challenge Awards
**Presentation begins at 9:10 into the video
February 12, 2021
Green in the City: Tackling Food Waste
Das Soligo, Manager of Solid Waste Services, County of Wellington and Vivian De Giovanni, Circular Economy Specialist, Solid Waste Resources, City of Guelph
October 24, 2020
UN Food Systems Summit #VoicesofFoodSystems
Evan Fraser, Arrell Food Institute (starting at 57:42)
October 16, 2020
Videos we've made