tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22324555600737334912011-07-28T19:21:15.014-07:00PHOOD is a group that includes community health professionals, activists, and community residents concerned about the growing presence of fast food in our community. We are dedicated to supporting and promoting a just and sustainable food system in the Grandview-Woodland community ... while addressing related social concerns such as isolation, illness, and poverty. We seek to raise awareness and thus build a healthier community.Penny Streetnoreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2232455560073733491.post-14721541921188488882009-07-07T17:53:00.000-07:002009-07-07T23:54:20.760-07:00On February 15, 2007, Mayor and Council unanimously adopted the Vancouver Food Charter, "an important step forward on the path to a just and sustainable food system for the city and its residents. The Charter is an ambitious, forward-thinking document that promotes education, celebration and real projects for a healthy economy, a healthy ecology, and a healthy society."<br /><br />PHOOD's goal is to create a similarly ambitious document that is specific to our Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood and identifies goals and concerns particular to The Drive.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2232455560073733491-1472154192118848888?l=promotinghealthyoptionsonthedrive.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Penny Streetnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2232455560073733491.post-32850266096753495742009-07-06T23:45:00.000-07:002009-07-07T23:45:27.702-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_o1rNl-UGzvk/SlLv8K8qpFI/AAAAAAAAC38/Zf6vMaXBVhM/s1600-h/Ingredients_Healthy_Food.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_o1rNl-UGzvk/SlLv8K8qpFI/AAAAAAAAC38/Zf6vMaXBVhM/s400/Ingredients_Healthy_Food.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355606723906937938" /></a><br /><br />How do we support a healthy food system at the community level? How do we feed ourselves and our families? How do we stop our reliance on fast food? How do we build strong local food economies? How do we ensure workers' rights?<br /><br />Join us to discuss diverse strategies and initiatives on how to build and sustain a healthy food system in our neighbourhood.<br /><br />Thurs. Oct 8th, 7:00 p.m.<br />Britannia Learning Resource Centre (under the library)<br /><br />Organized by Promoting Health Options on the Drive (PHOOD) and Grandview-Woodland Food Connection<br /><br />Info: 604-718-5895<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2232455560073733491-3285026609675349574?l=promotinghealthyoptionsonthedrive.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Penny Streetnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2232455560073733491.post-60650847408064972392009-07-06T23:27:00.000-07:002009-07-07T17:50:07.634-07:00As you know, food plays a vital role in our lives.<br />Help us create a vision for our Grandview-Woodland community that is both just and sustainable and that captures what we value and believe in when it comes to food. We are aiming to create a community-based food plan that will help guide and inform all levels of government, businesses, non-profit organizations, communities, families, and individuals in planning, policy development, programs, and practice. Let's work together to achieve food security in our community.<br /><br />We are seeking your ideas, visions, and strategies, your descriptions of what a healthy food system looks like in Grandview-Woodland. Tell us what you think our community would look like if everything we ate was fair, healthy, and environmentally friendly. We ask you to help us by thinking about and answering these questions:<br /><br /><ul>What already really works in Grandview-Woodland concerning food?<br /><br />What would you like to see more of?<br /><br />What would you like to see less of?<br /><br />What do you think is missing?</ul><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2232455560073733491-6065084740806497239?l=promotinghealthyoptionsonthedrive.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Penny Streetnoreply@blogger.com0