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Technology enabling conscious consumption

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:02:21 +0000

Bring in stakeholders in government and senior corporates in India who work with crafts and villages to stimulate economic growth. Dialogue could involve participation of Reliance Retail, Fabindia, government advisors, master craftsmen from India, Indonesia, Italy and Belgium. The core idea is to enable a deeper dialogue that will democratize design and skilling through technological intervention, thereby reducing time and money, and bring in effective participation of cross cultural equity between its various stakeholders. Summary and closing should have a concrete takeaway enabling the 3 SDG goals targeted.

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Gastronomia social em prática

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:02:14 +0000

A gastronomia social utiliza o poder dos alimentos como ferramenta de mudança social, abrangendo todos os níveis do ciclo alimentar, desde o plantio e colheita até a redução do desperdício de alimentos. Por meio da gastronomia social, os alimentos são usados ??para fortalecer comunidades e melhorar a vida das pessoas ao redor do mundo: construindo coesão social, abordando desigualdades socioeconômicas, priorizando a saúde, o bem-estar e promovendo a resiliência de ecossistemas. Este webinar irá destacar como a gastronomia social acontece em comunidades locais.Por meio de um painel com membros do Movimento de Gastronomia Social que compartilharão inovações, desafios e aprendizado de suas organizações. O painel destacará ações em direção as ODS 2 Fome Zero, ODS 12 ‘Consumo e Produção Responsável’ e ODS 17 ‘Parcerias para os Objetivos’. Esta sessão ainda terá pequenos grupos de discusão e um painel com representantes de organizações de Gastronomia Social do Brasil, moderado por Mike Oliveira (Líder de acões para a comunidade, SGM).

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Shoe Waste & The Future Of Footwear

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:02:06 +0000

Roundtable discussion with industry experts about the future of footwear and fashion waste management. Starting with a virtual presentation including slides of current fashion footwear trends, discovering sustainable efforts, recognising problems in the manufacture of footwear and consumer behaviour, followed by a discussion amongst the guests of how we can take steps to reduce shoe waste in landfills and how companies can participate in the clean-up by using a clear fashion waste management system. Closing will be a short time for Q&A from the audience. Topics like ESG, EPR, SDG will be touched and guests will discuss actions towards achieving these goals.

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Shifting Power to Sustainable Fashion Social Innovators

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:01:58 +0000

Learn from a series of panel and interactive discussions exploring key challenges and critical resources for Micro/SMEs in the Sustainable, Ethical Fashion Value Chain. Discuss how we can collaborate and implement impactful solutions that create a power shift enabling the Fashion Industry to reach 2030 SDGs. Hear stories and discover actionable tactics with sustainable, ethical fashion industry innovators collaborating for systemic change. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This is a global system that requires various people and organisations so we welcome input from all areas. We invite attendees from all areas of the fashion industry value chain from farm, manufacturing, designers, garment makers, retailers, and everyone in between. We also invite global cross-sector collaborators from government, education, farming, social enterprises, to add to the discussion. Let’s re-energize SDGs that relate to sustainable fashion, mainly SDGs 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth) 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) and 17 (Partnership for the Goals)!

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Circularity in Fashion: Incorporating Social and Inclusive Narratives

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:01:57 +0000

A gender lens approach in circularity can greatly benefit companies to identify solutions that can help them move toward SDG12, while also focusing on SDG5 and SDG8 and contributing to SDG1 and SDG 9. A great deal of importance has been given to understanding the environmental impact of the fashion industry and why the shift to circularity is important. Understanding based on circularity models such as recycling, rental, repair etc. But its also pivotal to consider the social dimension of this shift in this highly feminized and global value chain that goes to the grassroots level. Until now a tool to measure the social dimension in çircularity has been missing. Therefore, a special framework has been designed for businesses and advocates of sustainable fashion to understand the social impact of their operations. The session will coalesce with a fireside chat with 2 circular SMEs to discuss their challenges in incorporating social elements into their circular practice. The outcome of the session should be to provide evidence why it is important to work on a social-circular framework for change. It will show how a new tool can help companies/policymakers achieve different SDG such as, SDG1 (No Poverty), SDG5 (Gender Equality), SDG8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), SDG9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure), along with SDG12 (Responsible Production & Consumption).

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Gastronomía social en la práctica

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:01:46 +0000

La gastronomía social utiliza el poder de los alimentos como herramienta para el cambio social, abarcando todos los niveles del ciclo alimentario, desde la siembra y la cosecha hasta la reducción del desperdicio de alimentos. A través de la gastronomía social, los alimentos se utilizan para fortalecer las comunidades y mejorar la vida de las personas en todo el mundo: generar cohesión social, abordar las desigualdades socioeconómicas, priorizar la salud y el bienestar y fomentar la resiliencia de los ecosistemas locales. Este seminario web destacará cómo la gastronomía social aparece en las comunidades locales.

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Localise your food systems!

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:01:28 +0000

1) What are different initiatives addressing the opportunities and risks in the process of localising food systems? 2) How can we better support each other?

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Permaculture/ Eco-Friendly Agriculture: The Case of Nepal

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:01:24 +0000

https://permaculturenepal.com/ Almost Heaven Farms is a permaculture demonstration, training, research and resource center based out of Ilam, Nepal in the eastern hillside of the Himalayas. AHF supports farming communities transition to Regenerative Agriculture, restoring local soils, water sources and ecologies. Much more than only organic farming and beyond sustainability, we work with farmers to adapt to climate change and join the global effort to repair the damage done to the earth. Zachary is a permaculture designer, activist and teacher who has been living in Nepal since 2003. In 2005, he founded the Kamala Foundation, an organistion committed to bringing the principles of permaculture to life and providing community-based programming to cultivate resilience and revitalize traditional and ecological ways of being. He established Almost Heaven Farm in 2013, where he researches, demonstrates and trains local farmers and international visitors in permaculture design, earth-based building and ecological restoration. Specializing in program design and implementation, Zachary has worked in communities across Nepal and was instrumental in co-founding the Resilience Through Recovery Project, which employed permaculture techniques to help villages recover from the devastating earthquakes of 2015. Zachary’s vision is informed by the notion that to empower the powerless one must work to ‘create a million villages to replace nation states’ (Bill Mollison). He is currently working to develop a network of communities committed to regenerative development across the Himalayan bioregion.

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Unlocking value of rural eco systems

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:01:22 +0000

Rural eco systems have huge human potential locked in, this can be enriched and empowered to create great value. Identifying what is valuable in the rural offerings. How can this value be unlocked? How to bring together the right ingredients to build the perfect recipe.

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