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The food bank

by Paul de Blot June 15, 2011 permalink

In the Amsterdam Daklozenkrant Z! From May 20, I read the remarkable article entitled "perishable":

"What is not sold at the super because there is a dent in the butter or a bad orange in the net, I can not get out of the return shipment, even if I sell the Z! newspaper to what to buy food. I've learned that you do not throw away food. Returns converted into biogas, is better for the environment? What is environment, what is society, as long as people languish for lack of food? Where can I eat if the food does not give it to me because I am homeless? Yet I live mostly on what others throw away and give it away. "


Durability - The human inside

Sustainability and hot issue. The media are full of it, the government speaks of it in its procurement policy, even with the energy issue is raised and the cutbacks of the cabinet, is not forgotten. But in all these discussions, people are hardly aware that this focus on sustainability often very one-sided and only touches the outside of it. Prof. Herman Wijffels, Professor of Sustainability, emphasizes that sustainability is ultimately about human welfare, that's not something on the doeniveau but at his level. These human inside is often overlooked, even though that is precisely the essence of sustainability.