Imagining Tomorrow
It’s hard to imagine a bright future in the face of the climate crisis. This new podcast, from Hugo Award winning podcaster and author Emma Newman, will take you on a journey from despair to the most radiant, radical hope.
Made in partnership with Friends of the Earth, Imagining Tomorrow shows how we can create a future that is good for people and for nature, based on innovations in technology and community action that are already having a positive impact.
Join Emma as she pieces together the roadmap to utopia by interviewing amazing inventors, communities and award-winning science fiction authors.
We can’t build a better future until we can imagine it, so let’s imagine it together.
Imagining Tomorrow
Growing, Feeding, Nurturing
Over the past couple of years, extreme weather events, the energy crisis and Brexit have put a visible strain on the UK’s food supply chain and increased prices for the consumer.
What if we increased the amount of food that we grow in cities, and thus increased biodiversity and reduced food miles?
Inspired by talking to a community gardens group in Reading, a horticultural engineer who has co-founded a vertical farm in London and an award-winning author and screenwriter, Emma Newman imagines a future in which communities grow so much food together on their doorstep that the UK no longer needs to import fresh fruit and veg...
Resources
In episode 2 we heard from:
- Reading Food for Families
- Harvest London
- Temi Oh
- Reading International Solidarity Centre
- Presenter Emma Newman
The quote from Safia about her experience of growing food at Aisha Mosque garden was taken from this video and used with the kind permission of Andrea Berardi from COBRA Collective.
Get inspired by existing community gardening projects
- Postcode Gardener scheme (by Friends of the Earth and The Co-operative Bank)
- Incredible Edible movement (which Reading Food for Families is joining). Check out their campaign to establish a Right to Grow
- Community food-growing initiatives highlighted by the COBRA Collective (PDF)