This episode features PHD researcher Beth Cloughton talking about her research at Baltic Street Adventure Playground and how their work facilitates ethical consumption. Listen on for chat about neoliberalism and its impact on environmental action, the meaningful action around food we can be taking in our own lives, and a critical view on what ethical consumption is.

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Baltic Street Adventure Playground

Thinking Through Theory Methodologically

This episode is the first of two episodes exploring research into community food projects in Glasgow. In this episode Dr Helen Traill, Lecturer in Political Economy and Sustainability at the University of Glasgow's Adam Smith Business School, speaks about her recently published book, The Practice of Collective Escape: Politics, Justice and Community in Urban Growing Projects.

This episode includes discussion of the two community green spaces which form the case studies of the book, the political and social dynamics at play in these spaces, and why they're important.

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The Practice of Collective Escape

Evaluation of the Glasgow City Food PlanRhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life by Henri Lefebvre

Community Gardening as Social Action by Claire Nettle

For this episode we hear all about the benefits of eating more beans and the plans for the new Full of Beans campaign taking place in Glasgow this year.

Contributions from Beans is How, the global campaign to double bean consumption by 2028, the BeanMeals research project which is researching how we can incorporate locally grown beans into our school meals, and Glasgow's very own bean team talking about how the campaign came about, our plans for the next few months, and how you can get involved.

The contributions have been adapted from the Full of Beans launch webinar - if you would prefer to watch the complete version with slides, you can find it here.

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Full of Beans Webpage

BeanMeals

Beans is How

Chef's Manifesto

This episode of the podcast is all about the Interfaith Food Justice Network and its members.

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The Interfaith Food Justice Network

The Interfaith Food Justice Declaration

Hwupenyu Health and Wellbeing Project

SEVA Scotland

Stirling Aid

For this episode we're at Nourish Scotland's Veg Summit, hearing from a range of policymakers, producers, and stakeholders with their thoughts on getting Scotland eating more veg.

If you want to find out why people in Scotland aren't eating more vegetables, especially ones grown here, and some of the ways we can work to change this, then this is the episode for you. From dietary health to public procurement to growing our own, this episode covers it all.

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⁠Nourish Scotland⁠

⁠Food Standards Scotland⁠

⁠Kettle Produce⁠

⁠Sustainable Food Places⁠

⁠Argyll and Bute Council⁠

⁠Central and West Integration Network⁠

⁠Scottish Grocers Federation Healthy Living Programme⁠

⁠FEL Scotland⁠

⁠Forth Valley Food Futures⁠

⁠Edinburgh Garden Partners

For this episode we were joined by members of Govan Community Project's Food For All group who shared their work of bringing together the lived experience of asylum seekers using food provision services to inform service delivery and policy. We also heard from a Trustee of Glasgow South East Food Bank and their linkage with The Trussell Trust on their Guarantee Our Essentials Campaign.

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Govan Community Project

Glasgow South East Foodbank

Resources from the Food for All Group

For the second part in our tour of Glasgow's East End we take a tour of the Greencity Wholefoods warehouse and hear about their commitment to supplying ethical food. For our final stop we hear all about the sustainable practices at Italian inspired meets Scottish seasonality restaurant Celentano's.

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Check out Glasgow Open Doors' other tours

Greencity Wholefoods

Celentano's

In part one of our tour of Glasgow's East End we talk to Alister and Beth at Baltic Street Adventure Playground and Jac from The Wash House Garden. Hear all about the incredible services that Baltic Street provide in one of Glasgow's most deprived areas, and the ways in which The Wash House balance being both a market and community garden.

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The Tour on Guidgo

Baltic Street Adventure Playground

The Wash House Garden

In this episode we hear about the Grounds for Recycling Campaign - an initiative during the UCI World Cycling Championships reusing the city's coffee grounds for compost at the Botanic Gardens. The episode's guests are Rebecca Ricketts from the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, Hannah George from SWG3, and Ben Strachan from Urb-it.

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What is the circular economy?

Grounds for Recycling Participating Venues

SWG3

Urb-it

Production and editing by Thalia Groucott. Music by Oscar Wainwright.

In this episode we hear from Andrew Williams from CEMVO, who are one of Glasgow Food Policy Partnership's Partners.

The discussion covers how race relates to inclusion in the climate sector, global action on climate change, workers rights in the food sector, and the refugee crisis. 

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Thalia on Andrew's Disrupting the Doughnut of Doom Podcast

CEMVO

EMEN

Land In Our Names

Open seas