Green Pig, The Green Food Project and a joint initiative between the Government, environmental and consumer organisations

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The Green Food Project
‘We will bring together government, industry and environmental partners to reconcile how we will achieve our goals of improving the environment and increasing food production. We will publish our conclusions within the next 12 months.’ (NEWP pg 24, paragraph 2.46)

The Green Food Project is a joint initiative between the Government, environmental and consumer organisations, and the food and farming industry. It is looking at the challenge of how we can increase food production in England, whilst simultaneously enhancing the environment, and how we might reconcile any tensions that this challenge raises. A Natural Environment White Paper commitment, the Government wants to use the project to shape its policy work on food and farming, and the way in which we contribute to the global debate on food security.

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Green Pig (LK0682). This project has shown that soya bean meal can be replaced entirely by peas or beans in nutrient-balanced pig diets.
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Background

The Foresight Report on the Future of Food and Farming examined the approach that needs to be taken to ensure that a rise in global population can be fed sustainably. At a domestic scale, there is a need to consider how the UK can make a contribution to global food security and environmental improvement.

The Green Food Project has been initiated in response to the Foresight report and to a commitment that has been made in the Natural Environment White Paper, published in June 2011:

‘We will bring together government, industry and environmental partners to reconcile how we will achieve our goals of improving the environment and increasing food production. We will publish our conclusions within the next 12 months.’ (NEWP pg 24, paragraph 2.46)

Through this project, Government and organisations involved in the project are aiming to help deliver a more strategic framework for agri-food policy going forward.
http://www.defra.gov.uk/publications/files/pb13756-sustainable-live...

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http://www.ahdb.org.uk/projects/GreenFoodProject.aspx

practicing and promoting 'Pasture' reared

"practicing and promoting 'Pasture' reared high welfare and sustainable environmental standards within farming to enhance the quality of life for farm animals, the quality of food we produce, the natural fertility of the soil and the biodiversity within urban and rural landscapes."

The Lexicon of Sustainability™ - social idea connecting users to innovative ideas and solutions in a dozen sustainability areas: Food & Farming to Clean Tech, Health & Lifestyle to Manufacturing, Water to Waste, Public Policy to the Environment.

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Problem

A SOCIAL NETWORK OF IDEAS

The Lexicon of Sustainability™ is now building a social content platform connecting users to the key innovations, products and people driving the sustainability revolution.

Problem

We live in a world of finite resources and our current way of living is not sustainable.  We need new ideas.
Sustainability is not a trend.  Every business sector, from manufacturing to waste, energy to water, transportation to our food system, is searching for more sustainable solutions.  The ideas and innovations that define this movement will catalyze the new economy.
Despite this need for information and community among both producers and consumers, the Internet has yet to capture this vital conversation on a single website.

Solution

The Lexicon of Sustainability™ is an easy-to-use social idea platform connecting users to innovative ideas and solutions in a dozen sustainability areas: Food & Farming to Clean Tech, Health & Lifestyle to Manufacturing, Water to Waste, Public Policy to the Environment.  
You will be able to:
* add your own definitions and terms to the Lexicon, then moderate the conversations that grow around your ideas
*subscribe to your key areas of interest and even receive notifications about new ideas and innovations 
* shop in our “goods and services marketplace”
*participate in site-wide challenges with other users that allow you to apply sustainable principles and solutions to you own life

Opportunity

Sustainability is not a buzzword. It is the new reality.  Those who are meeting its challenges will become the architects of a new economy.  The sustainability audience is highly educated and socially engaged. They are doers, active participants not only on the web but in the real world.
A few websites, including Grist, Treehugger, and Alternet, cover elements of this sustainability conversation, but these are essentially curated blog sites with no social network functionality or community development. Despite their limited scope, each has approximately 4 million unique monthly web visits. By incorporating social network functionality and Facebook integration, along with additional revenue streams from content licensing and sponsorships, we can capture and own this audience, with projected total gross revenues of $30.7 million by our fifth year of service.

Competitive Advantages

The Lexicon of Sustainability’s advantage over competitors is threefold:

• Acceptance by Leaders in Sustainability Movement: We have already secured the contributions and participation of 150 key thought leaders in “Food and Farming”, the first module to be released on the platform

• Multi-Platform release strategy: The Lexicon’s content is uniquely designed for delivery on mobile devices, web browsers, on television and in print

• Executive team with necessary experience to build and deploy a robust social content platform

To learn more about the project, contact douglas [at] lexiconofsustainability [dot] com.

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