John Thackara, programme director Dott 07
When we (Dott) were in Delhi one of the most impactful kind of introductions to the subject of food and cities came from our next speaker, Chris Hardwick, who is an architect from Toronto. Toronto is one of those places that is taking the subject of food and food systems, and carbon and environmental impacts very seriously. This is where I have endlessly repeated the statistic that 30-40% of the carbon footprint of this city comes in one way or another from its food activities, transportation, energy growing, retailing, and so on, which is curiously completely absent when you look at what cities talk about what they are going to do to produce their carbon footprint. So I said ‘We need it to find out more about this curious kind of blind spot, or mislabelling of things. So, that, I think, is what Chris Hardwick is going to talk about this morning. Chris…
