diff --git a/user/pages/01.blog/2017/03/30/welcome-to-foodsaving-today/post.de.md b/user/pages/01.blog/2017/03/30/welcome-to-foodsaving-today/post.de.md
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title: Willkommen bei Foodsaving Today!
-date: '11:01 30-03-2017'
+date: 11:01 30-03-2017
headline: Es beginnt...
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Heute starten wir eine neue Website! Um Neuigkeiten, Informationen, Ankündigungen, Ereignisse über Foodsaving aus aller Welt zu verbreiten. Zu teilen und zu inspirieren.
Wenn du noch nicht nichts über Foodsaving weißt: Wir wollen erreichen, dass weniger Lebensmittel weggeworfen werden (schau mal auf [ diese Einführung](https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/free-food-sharing-leftovers-surplus-local-popular) von The Guardian).
diff --git a/user/pages/01.blog/2017/03/30/welcome-to-foodsaving-today/post.es.md b/user/pages/01.blog/2017/03/30/welcome-to-foodsaving-today/post.es.md
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+---
+title: '¡Bienvenido a Foodsaving Today!'
+date: 11:01 30-03-2017
+headline: Así comienza...
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: nicksellen
+---
+
+¡Hoy lanzamos nuestra página web! El propósito es compartir noticias, información, anuncios y eventos de alrededor del mundo sobre Foodsaving. Compartir e inspirar.
+
+Por si no conoces nada sobre Foodsaving: el objetivo es prevenir que comida sea desperdiciada (puede leer [esta introducción](https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/free-food-sharing-leftovers-surplus-local-popular) de The Guardian).
+
+Hay muchas personas y proyectos que intentan resolver esto ahora, con muchos enfoques diferentes: sin ánimo de lucro o como negocio, programa de ordenador o no, código abierto o propietario, formal o informal, software personalizado o un conjunto de herramientas, comunidad o negocio.
+
+Eso es todo por ahora, pero permaneced conectados...
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diff --git a/user/pages/01.blog/2017/04/07/foodsharing-taiwan/post.de.md b/user/pages/01.blog/2017/04/07/foodsharing-taiwan/post.de.md
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---
-title: 'Wir stellen vor: foodsharing Taiwan'
-date: '12:00 07-04-2017'
+title: "Wir stellen vor: foodsharing Taiwan"
+date: 12:00 07-04-2017
headline: Die Bewegung wächst
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author: Stefan
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+
foodsharing Taiwan wurde Ende 2015 gegründet. Inspiriert von [foodsharing](https://foodsharing.de) in Deutschland dachten wir uns, dass das auch ähnlich in Taiwan funktionieren könnte.
diff --git a/user/pages/01.blog/2017/04/07/foodsharing-taiwan/post.es.md b/user/pages/01.blog/2017/04/07/foodsharing-taiwan/post.es.md
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+---
+title: "Introducing: Foodsharing Taiwan"
+date: 12:00 07-04-2017
+headline: The movement spreads
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: stefan
+---
+
+
+
+Foodsharing Taiwan was founded in late 2015. Inspired by [foodsharing](https://foodsharing.de) in Germany we thought, that something similar might work in Taiwan as well.
+
+We basically started with contacting a bunch of bakeries in Taipei to ask them, if they were generally willing to let us pick up some of their surplus bread. At the same time we created a [facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/foodsharingtaiwan/) and group to organise the pick-ups and held a kick-off meeting to gather interested people.
+
+We finally found a bakery and a restaurant who offered us to pick up their surplus food daily. As required we set up a legal arrangement in accordance with Taiwanese law and designed our own foodsharing IDs, so that people can identify themselves as foodsharing members. People get their IDs at meetups, where they sign the legal arrangement.
+
+In summer 2016 we also installed a public fridge, at a coffee shop, not far from the stores, where we pick up the food. The fridge was donated by a friend and the owner of the coffee shop was generous enough to cover the electricity fees.
+
+
+
+We got a lot of attention for the fridge and gave some interviews to newspapers, magazines and even TV shows. Thus quite some people contacted us, offering to help. Also a company offered to donate fridges. Thus we were able to cooperate with a group of students and set up another fridge on campus early in 2017.
+
+The [facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/foodsharingtaiwan/) has about 1200 likes at the moment and the pick-ups continue. We hope to make the concept of foodsharing more popular in Taiwan, find more cooperation with food retailers and set up fridges all over Taiwan. Hopefully lots more to come-stay tuned!
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diff --git a/user/pages/01.blog/2017/04/13/foodsharing-gothenburg-part1/post.de.md b/user/pages/01.blog/2017/04/13/foodsharing-gothenburg-part1/post.de.md
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---
-title: foodsharing Göteborg - Teil eins
-date: '12:00 13-04-2017'
+title: "foodsharing Göteborg - Teil eins"
+date: 12:00 13-04-2017
headline: Der Beginn von foodsharing Göteborg
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author: Bruno
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+
Das erwartet euch in der vierteiligen Blogpost Serie:
- wie foodsharing in Göteborg begann
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+---
+title: "Foodsharing Gothenburg - Part One"
+date: 12:00 13-04-2017
+headline: How foodsharing in Gothenburg began
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: bruno
+---
+
+In this four-part series of blogposts I will describe:
+
+- how foodsharing in Gothenburg began
+- the main challenges we’re facing
+- how we organize and build community
+- our strategies for the future
+
+Hopefully this can be useful to other places getting started now or in the process, but most of all, I hope we can start exchanging some experiences.
+
+We can start that on [yunity’s slack group](https://slackin.yunity.org/), in the **#foodsaving-worldwide** channel.
+
+## How it started
+
+The food sharing initiative in Gothenburg, Sweden started undeniably because of [Foodsharing](https://foodsharing.de) in Germany. Nothing similar had ever existed here, to the best of my knowledge, and from my experience as a dumpster diver and knowing the number of people doing it here (Facebook groups with its thousands of members), I was surprised that no one had ever thought of organizing such a thing in the city.
+
+Perhaps it was just a matter of revealing to people what I had just discovered in my latest visit to Berlin in 2015, when I did a tour with Foodsharing as part of the conference on Solidarity Economy ([Solikon](http://solikon2015.org/)).
+
+But presenting an idea, as great as it is, and getting people involved in it is never that simple, as I’ve been learning in this awesome journey as a food waste activist. I’m probably not the best at this community-building thing, in the sense of being able to captivate people about an idea or project, but I discovered that a good way to go is by actually making stuff happen and show openness for people to participate.
+
+So, some many months after I presented Foodsharing for the first time at a local conference, after creating a [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/solidarisktkylskap/) and a [Wordpress website](http://solikyl.se/), things started to happen when I contacted an acquaintance of mine who would know the place for the first solidarity fridge. The place, called [Transition Workshop](http://omverkstan.se/), hosts a DIY bike repair workshop and other like-minded initiatives, like a Hackerspace. A perfect place to start!
+
+ *Olle, the veteran dumpster diver who jumped onboard the project and inaugurated together with me the first solidarity fridge and food share point.*
+
+ *Many times we are able to fill up the whole fridge!*
+
+As you may have noticed, the name of the initiative is solidarity fridge (Solidariskt Kylskåp, in Swedish), and for whatever reason that is the name that stuck in people’s mouths. In the beginning, I was calling it Foodsharing and our Facebook group still has both names, but somehow it made more sense for people by putting the emphasis on the fridge, because that was our starting point.
+
+We did not have any partnership with any shop, so the fridge was mainly filled sporadically by dumpster divers, until our very first foodsaver, a guy working at a [medium-sized supermarket](https://www.hemkop.se/Butiker/Hemkop-Goteborg-Masthuggstorget/), heard about the initiative and managed to convince his boss. We started rescuing bread (huge sacks, so up to this day we still drowning on bread sometimes, since we’re not able to give them all away) and after some months we started rescuing all kinds of foods.
+
+ *Second fridge and food share point we put up on a library. Food for thought: literature on sharing*
+
+We have already four solidarity fridges spread around the city (including one at a city library!), but very few partnerships yet. This has been one of the main challenges that I will describe in one of the following posts. Right now we are working hard on preparing the ground to scale up the foodsharing model to the many other neighbourhoods, which includes the work of building community, attracting engaged people, showing what the idea is about, how it works, and finding important and strategic actors that support us on this, including city officials.
+
+Foodsharing, in my conception, is all about grassroots engagement and empowering people to act collectively against food waste and towards a new culture of widescale sharing, but we need to face many challenges in order to achieve that. Next post will be about these challenges, from the Gothenburg/Swedish perspective.
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diff --git a/user/pages/01.blog/2017/04/21/foodsharing-gothenburg-part2/post.de.md b/user/pages/01.blog/2017/04/21/foodsharing-gothenburg-part2/post.de.md
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-title: foodsharing Göteborg - Teil zwei
-date: '12:00 21-04-2017'
+title: "foodsharing Göteborg - Teil zwei"
+date: 12:00 21-04-2017
headline: Aktuelle Schwierigkeiten bei der Umsetzung
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Am schwierigsten ist momentan wahrscheinlich der Aufbau weiterer Kooperationen mit Supermärkten bzw. Lebensmittelläden. Entweder haben sie zu viel Angst wegen der Lebensmittelrichtlinien, oder es gibt für sie keinen Anreiz ihre Lebensmittelverschwendung zu reduzieren bzw. ist das für sie keine Priorität.
Das betrifft natürlich nicht alle Läden (sonst gäbe es die bestehenden Kooperationen nicht) und kleinere Läden sind der Sache eher positiv eingestellt, aber an die großen Ketten muss man sehr sachte rangehen. Was alle gemeinsam haben ist, dass sie ignorieren und ausweichen und ab und an wird man auch direkt angelogen: "Bei uns wird nichts weggeschmissen". Das ist jedoch unmöglich für einen Supermarkt, egal wie sehr er es zu verhindern versucht.
diff --git a/user/pages/01.blog/2017/04/21/foodsharing-gothenburg-part2/post.es.md b/user/pages/01.blog/2017/04/21/foodsharing-gothenburg-part2/post.es.md
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+---
+title: "Foodsharing Gothenburg - Part Two"
+date: 12:00 21-04-2017
+headline: Main practical challenges
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: bruno
+---
+
+Perhaps the greatest challenge at the moment is to get more stores and supermarkets to cooperate. Either they are too afraid because of food safety regulations, or they simply do not have incentives and do not prioritize reducing their waste.
+
+This is obviously not true in all cases (otherwise we would not have the cooperations we have today), and small stores are more positive, but dealing with big commercial chains is more sensitive. Their most common strategy is to ignore and avoid, and sometimes we even heard outright lies, like “we don’t have any food waste”, an impossibility for any supermarket regardless how good they are at preventing it.
+
+But we also noticed that some of them are just afraid of the foodsharing model and that they might be held responsible in case someone gets sick, which in practice we know that the risk is very low, because the food is always community-controlled and the people involved take the precautions necessary to guarantee food safety.
+
+One of the solutions worked by german-speaking Foodsharing and by Foodsharing Edinburgh (and probably in other places that I’m not aware of) is to write a legal agreement between food savers and the donating companies, exempting the latter from any liability.
+
+ *While rescuing some food, we came across a greenwashing propaganda by a big supermarket chain, about how good they are in reducing food waste. They choose only to work with established charities, to which they donate about 0,8% of their total waste. They were not interested in cooperating with us.*
+
+That is one solution to be discussed here in Gothenburg, but it needs to be combined with better communication regarding the cooperation that we propose when we contact stores, such as improving our website and handing out informative broschures to dispell any doubts and fears.
+
+I personally like the following strategy: working towards clearing all of their concerns off the way, until we see if these were really legitimate concerns, or if they are just bad excuses. If the latter, then we should escalate and even engage in some public action of shaming, if necessary. We are, after all, offering them a service that will make them save some money in garbage disposal, guaranteeing that food that will be dealt with correctly and that they will not be liable for any misfortune.
+
+There is no excuse for wasting perfectly good food anymore!! And the fight is worth it. We have indeed some evidence that our nagging in one case made the supermarket start donating food to some other more established charity organizations.
+
+ *Slowly but steadly the number of foodsavers is growing. The [foodsaving tool](https://foodsaving.world) by [yunity](https://yunity.org) has made things easier in this sense*
+
+Another challenge that we’ve had, which I personally think is more fun to deal with, is making people understand that we are not providing them a charity service, and that we actually need them to participate in this process and to engage themselves.
+
+It is already clear for most of them that we are non-profit. Less clear though is that people can contribute and actually be actors of change. This is basically something that requires time to communicate and meet people, mainly the public who started coming to our first fridge where now we have regular distributions.
+
+Some people may not have the time or even the conditions (mental or physical hindrances) to help out anyhow, so just the fact that they can come to the fridge and get some food that otherwise would have been thrown away is perfectly fine.
+
+Other people are willing to participate, but bringing them in is also a matter of making it easy for them to participate. Barriers for entry should be low. The more, the merrier.
+
+In this sense, the [foodsaving tool](https://foodsaving.world) developed by [yunity](https://yunity.org) has been useful. In the next post I will present the kind of tools we have been using here in Gothenburg and discuss how they’ve helped us in creating community and networks, while prototyping a way to organize on a larger scale to reduce food waste while sharing.
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---
-title: foodsharing Göteborg - Teil 3
-date: '12:00 07-04-2017'
+title: "foodsharing Göteborg - Teil drei"
+date: 12:00 27-04-2017
headline: Tools für Organisation und Kommunikation
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+
Das ist wahrscheinlich der eher theoretische Teil, verglichen verglichen mit den praktischen Aktivitäten des Essenrettens und -teilens, aber trotzdem mag ich diesen Teil am Liebsten. Ich war schon immer sehr enthusiastisch was die Art und Menge der Organisation angeht, die, ohne formelle Hierarchien, Verbindung schafft durch die digitale Plattform.
Es ist besonders wichtig, dass wir eine Plattform haben, die nicht von einer Profit-Unternehmen kontrolliert wird und die keine Bedingungen stellt, wie die Leute miteinander interagieren, was normalerweise der Fall bei Technologie Unternehmen der sogenannten Sharing Economy ist.
diff --git a/user/pages/01.blog/2017/04/27/foodsharing-gothenburg-part3/post.es.md b/user/pages/01.blog/2017/04/27/foodsharing-gothenburg-part3/post.es.md
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+---
+title: "Foodsharing Gothenburg - Part Three"
+date: 12:00 27-04-2017
+headline: Tools to connect and to organize
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: bruno
+---
+
+This is probably the most abstract part, comparing to the hands-on activity of rescuing and sharing food, but also the one I’m most passionate about. I've always been very enthusiastic about the level and scale of organization that networks, with no formal hierarchies, can achieve by using digital platforms.
+
+It is especially important that this can happen without a for-profit company controlling the platform and setting the framework of how people can interact, which is usually the case for tech companies of the so-called sharing economy.
+
+Real sharing, however, can take place in a platform built and controlled by the community, by a movement and the people who use it.
+
+One example here in Sweden is the ride-sharing platform [skjutsgruppen.nu](http://skjutsgruppen.nu/), but another famous one, which most of the readers on this blog know about, is [foodsharing.de](https://foodsharing.de/). When I began foodsaving in Gothenburg I thought that we could start using foodsharing’s platform, but it was not possible for a number of reasons: the fact it is not open-source yet (as I understood, developers think the code is still not good enough to be released yet) and that it’s available only to the German-speaking public.
+
+However, you do not need a whole platform to start organizing food-rescuing where you live. The most common way to start organizing with your peers and reaching out to people interested is by creating a Facebook group.
+
+Of course, there is a number of inconvenient things about Facebook – besides the shadiest fact that it collects your personal data, your views and preferences in order to sell them to whomever wants to target people as consumers or voters, it is not the most appropriate tool for sharing food and coordinating the work of foodsavers. Things will also tend to pass unnoticed in its timeline.
+
+Facebook’s biggest and perhaps only advantage is the number of people there, meaning it’s easier to do some “marketing” and try to reach out to a wider public.
+
+However, to communicate and organize Solikyl (foodsharing in Gothenburg) it turned out better to create [our own forum](http://omverkstan.se/forum/categories/solikyl). On top of that, we put up a website ([solikyl.se](http://solikyl.se/)), first as a Wordpress blog and later registering the domain name. The website was also an important source of information about the project and the foodsaving idea in Gothenburg, as well as the way for people to contact us.
+
+ *yunity's foodsaving tool*
+
+Recently we have been able to test and use yunity's [foodsaving tool](https://foodsaving.world), which helps us coordinate more easily who is doing the pickups, when and where. Although it is still under development, it has the basic features that we need and it has worked fine so far!
+
+Another big advantage is that we could bring new people to participate in our regular pickups, which is actually a really important way to create engagement and make people feel a part of it. In the future, I hope that we can have the foodsaving tool integrated in our website, and further developed it to have a forum and chat options, and not least it would be awesome to have a functionality like the one in foodsharing, where people can share food in a peer-to-peer fashion.
+
+As grassroots food waste activists we do not have yet the human resources and connections to develop this software on our own here in Gothenburg, but thanks to work of like-minded people using open-source and collaborating on the internet, we can adopt new tools to achieve more efficient organization on a larger scale, and hopefully contribute to software development in the future as well.
+
+This is certainly an advantage that the collaborative movement has compared to profit-seeking counterparts still working with a scarcity-based mentality of enclosing the knowledge and information commons. Collaboration works better!
+
+yunity’s foodsaving tool, in particular, has been crucial in preparing the ground for expanding foodsaving in Gothenburg. And although a platform and digital tools might be necessary to build food-rescuing and sharing on a larger scale, they are not sufficient and other ingredients might be necessary.
+
+The next and final post will be about our strategies for the future of Solikyl, trying to reduce food waste and increase sharing as much as possible!
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title: 'Mach mit: foodsharing.de auf kommerziellen Musik Festivals'
date: '12:00 14.05.2017'
-headline: Essen retten mit Spaß und Musik
+headline: 'Essen retten mit Spaß und Musik'
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category: blog
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author: Janina, Bodhi
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+
Ihr wisst vielleicht schon, dass [foodsharing.de](https://foodsharing.de) auf vielen kommerziellen Festivals ist um dort Essen zu retten und um das Thema Lebensmittelverschwendung ins Bewusstsein zu rufen. Die kommende Festival Saison bietet viele Möglichkeiten für enthusiastische Foodsaver um mit uns zu kommen, um foodsharing bekanntzumachen und um jede Menge Essen zu retten. Wir freuen uns auf Deine Bewerbung für die verschiedenen Musik Festivals in ganz Deutschland!
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ Dieses Jahr werden einige Teams größer werden (wir bekommen teilweise 15 bis 2
Wir wollen die entspannte Atmosphäre auf dem Festival nutzen um den Leuten von foodsharing zu erzählen, weil in dieser Umgebung - weit weg vom Arbeitsstress und vom alltäglichen Leben - die Meisten viel offener für neue Ideen sind. Außerdem retten wir immer gigantische Mengen an Proviant, den die Menschen auf das Festival bringen und am Ende nicht mehr nach Hause nehmen wollen. Oftmals können wir auch zubereitetes Essen und Zutaten von den Essensständen retten, wir schwimmen also buchstäblich in einem Meer aus Essen am Ende des Festivals.
-Wie du siehst, es gibt eine Menge zu tun! Natürlich gibt es auch noch Zeit um einfach das Festival zu genießen, aber wir wollen einfach betonen, wenn Du mit foodsharing auf ein Festival gehst, der Fokus auf der Freiwilligenarbeit liegt: Zusammen mit einem Team voller motivierter Foodsaver steht ihr am Infostand/Fair-Teiler, erzählt Leuten von der Lebensmittelverschwendung, von unserer Arbeit, wie sie auch helfen können und nachts - wenn die Essensstände schließen - retten wir das ganze schon wunderbar zubereitete Essen auf dem Platz und fair-teilen es vielleicht sogar auch gleich danach schon wieder. Wenn das geschafft ist, fällst Du müde und glücklich in Deinen Schlafsack im foodsharing Camp und am nächsten Morgen gibt es womöglich schon wieder ein kostenloses Frühstück zum Vernaschen.
+Wie du siehst, es gibt eine Menge zu tun! Natürlich gibt es auch noch Zeit um einfach das Festival zu genießen, aber wir wollen einfach betonen, wenn Du mit foodsharing auf ein Festival gehst, der Fokus auf der Freiwilligenarbeit liegt: Zusammen mit einem Team voller motivierter Foodsaver steht ihr am Infostand/Fair-Teiler, erzählt Leuten von der Lebensmittelverschwendung, von unserer Arbeit, wie sie auch helfen können und nachts - wenn die Essensstände schließen - retten wir das ganze schon wunderbar zubereitete Essen auf dem Platz und fair-teilen es vielleicht sogar auch gleich danach schon wieder. Wenn das geschafft ist, fällst Du müde und glücklich in Deinen Schlafsack im foodsharing Camp und am nächsten Morgen gibt es womöglich schon wieder ein kostenloses Frühstück zum servieren.
Der Teamgeist ist wahrscheinlich eine der besten Erfahrungen, wenn man mit foodsharing auf dem Festival ist: Ein langes Wochenende voller nützlicher Aktionen zusammen mit einer Gruppe gleichgesinnter Menschen unter manchmal chaotischen Umständen bringt uns definitiv näher!
**Bitte beachte, dass alle Foodsaver zusammen im Crew Camp übernachten!** Wir haben diese generelle Regel eingeführt, weil Festivalgelände oft riesig und unübersichtlich sind. Es ist wichtig für die Gruppe, zusammenzubleiben, um flexibel und rechtzeitig auf Einsätze zu reagieren, wie Essen zu retten, ohne vorher alle zusammenrufen zu müssen - das passiert sogar recht häufig. Außerdem fördert das den schon oben genannten Teamgeist und auf manchem Festivals hat das campen im Crew Camp den Vorteil, dass es dort saubere Porzellantoiletten und Duschen für uns gibt... ;)
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+title: 'Take part: foodsharing.de on commercial music festivals'
+date: '12:00 14-05-2017'
+headline: 'Saving food with fun and music'
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Janina, Bodhi
+---
+
+As you may know, [foodsharing.de](https://foodsharing.de) is present on many commercial festivals to save food and raise awareness for the topic of food waste. The upcoming festival season will again hold many possibilities for enthusiastic foodsavers to come with us, spread the word and save a lot of food. We're looking forward to your application for various music festivals throughout Germany!
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+In many cases the teams will be bigger this year (we'll get 15 to 25 tickets per festival) and that's why we look forward to working together with a lot of motivated foodsavers, who are **at least 18 years old**, who already **completed their trial pick-ups** and who **didn't commit any relevant violations**.
+
+We want to use the relaxed atmosphere on the festivals to tell people about foodsharing, because in these settings - far away from the stress of work and everyday life - many people are much more open to new ideas. On top of that, we always save huge amounts of provisions, which the people brought to the festival and don't want to carry home with them afterwards. A lot of times we can also save prepared food and ingredients from the food stands, so that we literally swim in a sea of food on the day after the festival.
+
+So you see, there's a lot to do! Of course there's also time to simply enjoy the festival, but we want to put emphasis on the fact, that going to a festival with foodsharing is mainly volunteering: Together with a team of equally motivated foodsavers you (wo)man the info stand/Food-Share Point, talk to people about food waste, our work and how they can help, too, and at night - when the food stands close - you save all the nice ready-made food from the infield and maybe even distribute it directly afterwards. When this is done, you fall tired and happy into your sleeping bag in the foodsharing camp and on the next morning you maybe already serve free breakfast again.
+The group spirit is probably one of the nicest experiences, while doing foodsharing on a festival: A long weekend full of purposeful action together with a group of likeminded people under sometimes chaotic circumstances definitely brings us closer to each other!
+
+**Please be aware of the fact that all the foodsavers will sleep together in the crew camping area!** We decided to make this a general rule, because the festival grounds are often huge and hard to navigate. Keeping the group together is important to be able to flexibly and timely react when opportunities to save food arise without prior warning - something that happens quite a lot. On top of that it also enhances above-mentioned group spirit and at some festivals staying in the crew camp also has the benefit of clean procelain toilets and showers for us to use... ;)
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+
+
+To apply for a ticket just use the link for the festival you're interested in and fill in the respective form. The festivals differ quite a bit and so do the requirements. In general we can say: The bigger a festival, the more there is to do. But also on the big festivals there's gonna be time to attend a concert or meet up with friends, it should just be clear that foodsharing is the reason why we're there.
+
+* [Hurricane (22.-26.6.)](https://goo.gl/forms/09YXg3oesiBkPstG2)
+* [Southside (22.-26.6.)](https://goo.gl/forms/p1sl3bdgriUCVoo02)
+* [M’era Luna (11.-14.8.)](https://goo.gl/forms/wKwDYoYEiqXhvzRP2)
+* [Highfield (17.-21.8.)](https://goo.gl/forms/PHfsb6kiUseWxh6y1)
+* [Chiemsee Summer (15.-20.8.)](https://goo.gl/forms/sWhxg0id3QPrqZEw1)
+
+We favor people, who can be there with us over the whole period of time indicated, as well as those, who can either come very early or stay very late. Especially at festivals that continue for more than three days there is the possibility for you to play a bigger part in setting up our stand or shutting it down, as well as in handling the loads and loads of food, that will be saved on the very last day. We also favor people, who don't have to drive hundreds of kilometers to reach the festival grounds, as well as those, who are ready to take on responsibilities before the festival even starts. We want to make sure that the people, who get the tickets are motivated and reliable, so offering to take on tasks will definitely increase your odds... ;)
+
+If more people apply than we have tickets to give out, we'll take above-mentioned criteria into account and make a weighted raffle. We'll try to respect your wishes, but we can't guarantee anything.
+
+Deadline for the applications always is three weeks before the festival starts, so that the more detailed organization can still take place as relaxed as possible (Like: Who brings what? Who travels how? How do we communicate in the group?).
+
+We're looking forward to a nice, varied and productive festival season with you!
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+
+
+P.S: Apart from the above-mentioned big festivals foodsharing is also present at some smaller ones. Since we only get a handful of tickets for those, which are mostly distributed very quickly, we don't mention them in this call for participation. Still, if you want to participate in one of those just try your luck: On foodsharing.de you can join the district 'foodsharing auf Festivals' and have a look on the list of working groups for that district, because that's where all the festivals are listed. [This link](https://foodsharing.de/?page=groups&p=1432) will take you there directly and then you can contact the groups.
+
+P.P.S: We also have the group 'Öffentlichkeitsarbeit - Festivals Info' on foodsharing.de, where you can join to get more general information. When some tickets suddenly get available again, because already confirmed foodsavers fall sick or have an emergency, we'll announce it there as well. Just take a look at the list of supra-regional working groups and join - the access is not limited! Or simply take [this direct link](https://foodsharing.de/?page=groups).
+
+P.P.P.S: The newly structured festival working group is always happy to receive support with regards to general organization! If you have a festival in mind that you want to reach out to, or you want to help us with overall communication and documentation, please apply to the group 'Festival Koordination' in the district 'foodsharing auf Festivals', which you can find [here](https://foodsharing.de/?page=groups&p=1432).
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-title: Foodsharing Göteborg - Teil 4
-date: '12:00 27-05-2017'
+title: "Foodsharing Göteborg - Teil 4"
+date: 12:00 27-05-2017
headline: Strategien für die Zukunft
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In den vergangenen Beiträgen schrieb ich über Solikyl, die foodsharing Initiative in Gotheburg, über Schwierigkeiten und über die Computerprogramme, die wir nutzen um uns zu organisieren und auszutauschen. Dieser letzte Beitrag behandelt die Strategien und Visionen, die wir für die Zukunft haben.
Die Vision ist natürlich solidarische Kühlschränke in der Stadt zu verteilen um mehr Betriebe dazu zu bringen mit uns zu kooperieren und letzendlich die Lebensmittelverschwendung sichtbar einzudämmen. Doch es gibt Wege und Wege dies zu tun. Es gibt weder den Bedarf ein Geschäft daraus zu machen, noch es als Wohltätigkeitsorganisation für die Ärmsten aufzuziehen, dies zieht nur stigmatisierende Grenzen mit sich.
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+title: "Foodsharing Gothenburg - Part Four"
+date: 12:00 27-05-2017
+headline: Strategies for the future
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: bruno
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+
+On the previous posts I wrote about Solikyl, the foodsharing initiative in Gothenburg, about the challenges we face and the tools we use to connect and organize ourselves. This final post is all about the strategies and visions we have for the future.
+
+The vision is obviously to spread solidarity fridges across the city, to get more food shops to cooperate and ultimately to minimize food waste considerably. But there are ways and ways to do it. There is neither a need to make a business out of it, nor to make it as a charity that targets the poorest, creating stigmatization barriers.
+
+From the very beginning we who organized this did not view this initiative as some kind of top-down non-profit or as a business model. In fact, you don’t need much money at all (all of our expenses have been paid so far with recycled bottles collected where the first solidarity fridge is). Of course, what you need is resources, the most important of them being people’s time, skills and commitment.
+
+Things like fridges, used but fully functional, are also available to donation in this abundant and affluent society, so the question is finding them.
+
+So far we got them on Facebook sharing groups and similar donation websites. Places are also available, so the trick is to find the right places and talk to the right people who share similar values. Then how are we preparing the ground to do all of this on a larger scale?
+
+ *Bringing a solidarity fridge to a natural place for sharing, a library.*
+
+One particular strategy that we are working on is a partnership with the city. We are discussing the possibility of getting the discarded and working fridges from the waste stations and using the public spaces, like libraries, to place them. Some legal questions seem to be cleared now.
+
+We know that the places housing the fridges are not liable for food safety regarding foodsharing in their premises. We also know now that partners who donate are not liable for the food ending up at the fridges and food sharing points, so we are currently working on communication material to approach future partnership (see also [part 2](/blog/2017/04/21/foodsharing-gothenburg-part2)).
+
+Finally, when all the pieces of this puzzle are put together we will have the conditions to expand food sharing in Gothenburg in a more decentralized matter, which does not require an overwhelming amount of work from the core group.
+
+Solikyl will only provide the tools (see also [part 3](/blog/2017/04/27/foodsharing-gothenburg-part3)), know-how, contacts, support, etc. for the local neighbourhood communities who want to start rescuing food that would have gone to waste, doing it in a way that behaviours of sharing and solidarity are encouraged.
+
+
+
+Let me give you an example about what creating a decentralized solidarity infrastructure means. Last time I was at the transition workshop, the place where our first and most “active” fridge is, I could observe people coming and going, not only to get some food, but also to leave stuff on their own account.
+
+One guy had just come from his dumpster-diving tour with some bread and sausages, while a woman came later with some snacks that were donated directly from a distributor, because the best-before date on these snacks had expired. I might have seen these people there before, but I did not know them, and they were not among the foodsavers who contacted us to pick up food at the store, using the foodsaving tool.
+
+What happens here is that this food sharing point, with the fridge, the shelves and the big IKEA boxes (yes, so Swedish...) where we have bread constituted a very basic infrastructure that people could use to engage in the act of sharing whatever food excess they have or find.
+
+There is no need for constant supervision of the fridge by any kind of formal organization (a company, a charity or public authorities), which would be responsible for the giving and taking happening on this food sharing point. There is no need either for a boss, whether from a company or from a non-profit, to organize or dictate how these interactions are going to take place.
+
+This is actually one of the most efficient ways we believe there is to fight food waste, and perhaps more importantly, this kind of model promotes real sharing and is open enough to empower people, giving them the tools and knowledge to be active agents of change, and not merely limiting them to be passive consumers or receivers of charity.
+
+I’m looking forward to read other contributions on this blog and to get to know more about similar initiatives in other cities!
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-title: foodsharing Bilbao - der Anfang
-date: '12:00 30-06-2017'
+title: "foodsharing Bilbao - der Anfang"
+date: 12:00 13-04-2017
headline: Inspiration, Sprachnachrichten und ein Besuch
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taxonomy:
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author: Unai
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+
Leire und ich (Unai) haben die Energie von foodsharing Kopenhagen gesehen und wollten das auch hier in Bilbao ausprobieren. Etwa Ende 2016 haben wir ein Meeting bei [Sarean](https://www.facebook.com/sareangunea/) arrangiert, das zwei weitere Leute angezogen hat: Ione und Laura.
Wir haben beschlossen eine [Facebook Gruppe](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1853289058224368/?ref=bookmarks) zu gründen, um Leute einzuladen und ein weiteres Meeting zu halten, sobald mehr Leute erreichbar sind. Das zweite Treffen hat nie stattgefunden; zum Glück aber kannte Laura Joachim (von [yunity](https://www.yunity.org)) und er hat vorgeschlagen, dass wir bei ein paar [Online Meetings](https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0c-rM4MZX0XdERVTy1IVUN0aVU&noprocess) teilnehmen, wo wir die Basics von foodsharing kennenlernten.
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+---
+title: "Foodsharing Bilbao - The Beginning"
+date: 12:00 30-06-2017
+headline: Inspiration, voice calls and a visit
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: unai
+---
+
+Leire and I (Unai) had seen the power of Foodsharing Copenhagen and we wanted to give it a try here in Bilbao. Around the end of 2016 we set up a meeting at [Sarean](https://www.facebook.com/sareangunea/) that attracted two more people: Ione and Laura.
+
+We agreed to create a [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1853289058224368/?ref=bookmarks), to invite people and to host a second meeting when more people were available. The second meeting never took place; instead, luckily enough Laura knew Joachim (from [yunity](https://www.yunity.org)) and he proposed us to join a series of [online meetings](https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0c-rM4MZX0XdERVTy1IVUN0aVU&noprocess) where we got to know the basics about Foodsharing.
+
+Following Joachim´s advice we took the first steps to get things moving: [translating flyers](https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0c-rM4MZX0Xc1dzWHFvN2VHUEE&noprocess), [approaching stores](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1IPgyuLC2Sjsz7vnXTh-D636wObI_kISLdsegsF9TU1U&noprocess), thinking of potential Foodshare points and making some contacts, contacting potential places to hold presentations or contacting local workshops for space to build a bike trailer.
+
+ *Janina in Recrea2, where we'd work on the bike trailer a week later.*
+
+Joachim had planned to come to Bilbao around the end of March, together with Janina, to kickstart the movement. [And they did so!](https://yunity.atlassian.net/wiki/display/FSINT/Kickstarting+foodsharing+Bilbao)
+
+The first pickup ever took place at Panadería Buenos Aires a couple of days before their arrival, but once they arrived everything speed up: we organised an [intro meeting](https://www.facebook.com/events/183695715476690/) at [Bilbiko Kultur Etxea](https://www.facebook.com/bilbikokulturetxea/), we established a collaboration with [Ecorganic](https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ecorganic-Bilbao/1710629755857150) and started daily pick-ups (except for Sunday), we half-built the bike trailer at [Recrea2](https://www.facebook.com/Recrea2.Bilbao/), we made some contacts such as [Karmela squat](https://www.facebook.com/Karmela-1029527180427399/) or Álvaro, from [Nevera Solidaria](https://www.facebook.com/neverasolidaria/). It was a highly productive yet super relaxed fortnight. Thanks a lot guys!
+
+ *Alvaro and Unai.*
+
+Once the yunity team left things slowed down but have kept running ever since. The collaboration with Ecorganic is getting stronger and we’ve only missed one pick-up; four people have signed the [liability contract](https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0c-rM4MZX0XUWs3b2N2QkZnS0U&noprocess) and have done at least one pick up. On the other hand, the collaboration with Panadería Buenos Aires is really weak because they do not have leftovers anymore. We have weekly foodshare events at Karmela and Bilbiko Kultur Etxea. We have contacted big supermarkets such as Lidl and ALDI. We are going to present Foodsharing Bilbao and prepare food in an event organised by the Space Exchange Network and at a neighbourhood assembly. We have been invited to organise a Disco Soup in Sarean that might take place soon or after this summer. We will be live on air soon in a local radio station. We are active!
+
+The movement is still a baby, but we are in no rush to grow. Everything happens when it has to happen :)
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-title: Foodsharing Maastricht - Eine Stadt entdeckt die Liebe zum Lebensmittelretten
-date: '12:00 29-07-2017'
-headline: Beginn und Wachstum einer Studierendeninitiative
+title: "Foodsharing Maastricht - Eine Stadt entdeckt ihre Liebe zum Lebensmittel-Retten"
+date: 12:00 29-07-2017
+headline: Der Beginn und das Wachstum einer Studenten-Initiative
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-Die Idee foodsharing Maastricht zu gründen kam im Januar 2017 auf. Nachdem wir etwas dazu auf facebook gepostet hatten, bekamen wir direkt Unterstützung aus der von Studierenden betriebenen Nachhaltigkeitsabteilung der Universität Maastricht. Das so genannte [Green Office](https://www.greenofficemaastricht.nl/) unterstützt Studierendeninitiativen, die sich der Erhöhung der Nachhaltigkeit der Universität annehmen.
-Das Timing war super: In der Uni lief gerade ein Ideenwettbewerb zur Verbesseung des Unilebens. Wir nahmen mit foodsharing Teil und nach einigen Workshops und zwei Runden konnten wir uns über ein schönes Preisgeld freuen.
+Die Idee mit Foodsharing in Maastricht anzufangen kam im Januar 2017. Nachdem wir es auf Facebook veröffentlicht haben, haben wir direkt Hilfe von der studentischen Nachhaltigkeitsabteilung der Maastricht University, dem [Green Office](https://www.greenofficemaastricht.nl/), erhalten, das Studenten-Initiativen unterstützt, um die Nachhaltigkeit der Universität zu verbessern.
+
+Die Zeit war reif - die Universität hat einen Wettbewerb für die Studenten veranstaltet, um die beste Idee zur Verbesserung des Lebens in der Universität zu finden. Wir haben mit Foodsharing teilgenommen, und nach einigen Workshops und zwei runden waren wir die glücklichen Gewinner vom Preisgeld und der Unterstützung der Universität.
-Durch diesen Wettbewerb konnten wir uns einen Raum in der Uni sichern, in dem wir nun das gerettete Essen lagern. Davon abgesehen ist die generelle Unterstützung der Uni unbezahlbar. Nach der finalen Runde ging alles sehr schnell: Zwei Wochen später hatten wir bereits einen kleinen Raum im Universitätsgebäude im Herzen Maastrichts und über facebook konnten wir einige gespendete Regale und Kühlschränke ergattern.
+Dieser Wettbewerb gab uns die unglaubliche Möglichkeit, einen Raum zu haben in dem wir die geretteten Lebensmittel lagern können, und generell in der Lage zu sein mit der Universität zu kooperieren. Nach dem Finale ging alles sehr schnell. Zwei Wochen später bekamen wir einen kleinen Raum in einem Universitätsgebäude im Zentrum von Maastricht. Über Facebook haben wir mehrere Spenden gebrauchter Kühlschränke und einem Regal bekommen.
-Der zweite Aspekt - der Teamaufbau - zeigte uns wieviele motivierte Studierende es in Maastricht gibt. Gemeinsam mit dem Green Office veranstalteten wir einen Informationsabend, um Interessierte zusammenzubringen und unseren Bekanntheitsgrad zu erhöhen. Durch dieses Event haben wir unsere ersten Mitstreiter gefunden. Jetzt - ein halbes Jahr später - sind sie immernoch ein wichtiger Teil unseres Teams.
+Der zweite Teil, ein Team aufzubauen, zeigte wie viele interessierte und motivierte Studenten in Maastricht leben. Gemeinsam mit dem Green Office haben wir einen Informationsabend organisiert um interessierte Menschen zu versammeln und die Initiative in Maastricht bekannter zu machen. Durch diese Veranstaltung trafen wir unsere ersten großartigen Teammitglieder, die jetzt, ein halbes Jahr später, noch ein wichtiger Teil unseres Teams sind.
-Wir haben eine [Facebook Gruppe](https://www.facebook.com/FoodSharingMaastricht/) erstellt unhd danach eine Page, auf der uns nach und nach Menschen angeschrieben haben, die Foodsaver werden wollten. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt hatten wir allerdings noch keine Kooperationen mit Betrieben. Wir wollten erstmal einen Raum und ein Team haben, damit wir die Abholungen dann auch wirklich zuverlässig durchführen können.
+Wir haben eine [Facebook Gruppe](https://www.facebook.com/FoodSharingMaastricht/) und später eine Seite erstellt, auf der sich neue Leute nach und nach bei uns meldeten um foodsaver zu werden. Bis dahin hatten wir jedoch keine Kooperationen mit Supermärkten. Wir hatten uns entschieden zuerst den Raum und ein Team zu organisieren, um wirklich in der Lage zu sein Abholungen zu bewältigen.
-Es war allerdings nicht so einfach, wie wir gedacht hätten, Supermärkte von einer Kooperation mit uns zu überzeugen. Die ersten, die wir fragten, haben alle abgelehnt. Kleinere Märkte sagten immer sie würden nichts wegwerfen (was schwer zu glauben ist), oder dass sie ihren Überschuss anderweitig verwerten (was toll ist). Die wirklich großen Fische, die riesigen Supermärkte, kooperieren bis jetzt überhaupt nicht. Sie haben Angst um ihr Image, vor zusätzlicher Arbeit und sie sind generell der Idee gegenüber nicht aufgeschlossen mit einer kleinen Studierendeninitiative zusammenzuarbeiten. Es ist frustrierend zu sehen, dass immernoch soviele Menschen und Betriebe in den Niederlanden nicht bereit sind sich gegen Lebensmittelverschwendung einzusetzen.
+It was not as easy as we thought to convince supermarkets to cooperate with us. The first ones all denied. Smaller supermarkets always argued that they do not have any food waste at all (which is hard to believe) or that they use it already for other purposes (which is great). However, the biggest fish, large supermarkets, do not yet cooperate at all. They fear about their image, about additional work they have to do and are in general not open to a small student initiative and their activities. It is very frustrating to see that many people and companies in the Netherlands are not yet ready to fight against food waste.
-Aus diesem Grund wollen wir nach der Sommerpause mehr Fokus auf Events und Kampagnen zur Stärkung des Bewusstseins für dieses Thema legen. Wir wollen weiter wachsen, um noch mehr Menschen zu erreichen und schließlich die nötige Bedeutung zu erlangen, dass auch große Supermärkte uns ernst nehmen und mit uns kooperieren wollen. Wenn nur genügend ihrer Kunden unser Anliegen unterstützen wird der Druck auf die Supermärkte irgendwann groß genug sein, um sie zum Umdenken zu bringen.
+Therefore, after the summer break, we want to focus more on awareness raising campaigns and events, we want to further grow in order to reach more people and to gain the power to convince also larger companies to donate their food waste. Only if enough customers are aware of the situation the pressure on supermarkets will be high enough to make them change their minds.
-Seit Kurzem führen wir bei drei kleineren Märkten regelmäßig Abholungen durch, ausserdem haben wir begonnen mit Lieferanten der Universität zu kooperieren, was sofort einen großen positiven Einfluss auf die Nachhaltigkeit unserer Universität hat. Wir sind der gesamtniederländischen foodsharing foundation beigetreten, die sich auch erst kürzlich gegründet hat. Es ist wunderbar zu sehen, dass mehr und mehr Städte hierzulande mitmachen und wir hoffen, dass sich die Idee noch weiter auf der Erde verbreitet.
+Recently, we picked up food from three smaller supermarkets on a regular basis and we started to cooperate with the food supplier of the university, which already greatly improves the sustainability of our university. On a national level, we just joined the Dutch-wide Foodsharing foundation, which was also just recently founded. It is great to see that more and more Dutch cities are involved and we hope the initiative will spread further around the globe.
-(Das Green Office hat schon im April 2017 [einen Artikel](https://www.greenofficemaastricht.nl/single-post/2017/04/18/FoodSharing-Maastricht-Chasing-away-food-wastage) über die hier vorgestellte Grppe auf ihrer eigenen Page veröffentlicht)
+(The Green Office published [an article](https://www.greenofficemaastricht.nl/single-post/2017/04/18/FoodSharing-Maastricht-Chasing-away-food-wastage) concerning this initiative on their own website in April 2017)
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+---
+title: "Foodsharing Maastricht - A city discovers its love for saving food"
+date: 12:00 29-07-2017
+headline: The start and growth of a student initiative
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: niki
+---
+
+The idea to start Foodsharing in Maastricht came up in January 2017. After posting it on Facebook we directly got help from the student-run sustainability department of Maastricht University, the [Green Office](https://www.greenofficemaastricht.nl/), which supports student initiatives to improve the sustainability of the university.
+
+The time was right - the university hosted a student idea competition in order to find the best idea to improve university life. We participated with Foodsharing, and after some workshops and two rounds we were happy to win price money and the support of the university.
+
+
+
+This contest gave us the amazing possibility to secure a room, in which we can store the saved food, and to be able to generally cooperate with the university. After the finals, everything went very quick. Two weeks later we got a small room in a university building in the center of Maastricht. Via Facebook we got several donations of second-hand fridges and of a shelf.
+
+The second part, building up a team, showed how many interested and motivated students live in Maastricht. Together with the Green Office, we organized an information evening to gather interested people and to raise awareness of the initative in Maastricht. Through this event, we met our first great team members who are now - half a year later - still an important part of our team.
+
+
+
+We created a [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/FoodSharingMaastricht/) and later a page where step by step, new people texted us to become foodsavers. However, until that point we did not have any cooperations with supermarkets. We decided to first organize the room and a team in order to really be able to manage pick-ups.
+
+It was not as easy as we thought to convince supermarkets to cooperate with us. The first ones all denied. Smaller supermarkets always argued that they do not have any food waste at all (which is hard to believe) or that they use it already for other purposes (which is great). However, the biggest fish, large supermarkets, do not yet cooperate at all. They fear about their image, about additional work they have to do and are in general not open to a small student initiative and their activities. It is very frustrating to see that many people and companies in the Netherlands are not yet ready to fight against food waste.
+
+Therefore, after the summer break, we want to focus more on awareness raising campaigns and events, we want to further grow in order to reach more people and to gain the power to convince also larger companies to donate their food waste. Only if enough customers are aware of the situation the pressure on supermarkets will be high enough to make them change their minds.
+
+Recently, we picked up food from three smaller supermarkets on a regular basis and we started to cooperate with the food supplier of the university, which already greatly improves the sustainability of our university. On a national level, we just joined the Dutch-wide Foodsharing foundation, which was also just recently founded. It is great to see that more and more Dutch cities are involved and we hope the initiative will spread further around the globe.
+
+
+
+(The Green Office published [an article](https://www.greenofficemaastricht.nl/single-post/2017/04/18/FoodSharing-Maastricht-Chasing-away-food-wastage) concerning this initiative on their own website in April 2017)
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---
-title: "Foodsharing Switzerland - Der aktuelle Status Quo"
+title: "Foodsharing Switzerland - The current Status Quo"
date: 12:00 15-09-2017
-headline: Repost aus der foodsharing International AG auf foodsharing.de
+headline: As posted in the international working group on foodsharing.de
disqus: true
taxonomy:
- category: blog
- tag: [grav]
- author: peter
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: peter
---
-Ihr Lieben
+Dear all, I’ve been asked to tell about the situation in Switzerland which I’ll gladly do. I’m not so sure what could be interesting, so [feel free to ask](mailto:peter.toennies@gmail.com) for more info.
-Ich wurde gebeten, hier einmal den Status Quo der Schweiz zu erfassen. Mache ich natürlich gerne. Ich weiss nicht so genau, was alles interessant ist, daher [fragt gerne nach]((mailto:peter.toennies@gmail.com)).
+### First of all some random numbers
-### Erst mal ein paar spröde Zahlen
-* 1161 Foodsaver, 20 Botschafter, 244 Betriebe, 99 laufende Kooperationen
-* 112.175,00 kg Lebensmittel gerettet bei 10178 Rettungs-Einsätzen
-* Tatsächlich aktiv sind meines Wissens nach 12 Botschafter.
-* Es gibt 12 Bezirke, von denen 5 tatsächlich aktiv sind. Basel, Bern, Zürich, Luzern und Zug.
+* 1161 foodsavers, 20 ambassadors, 244 stores, 99 cooperations
+* 112.175kg saved food from 10.178 pick-ups
+* 12 ambassadors are active on a daily basis
+* 12 districts, 5 are actually active: Basel, Bern, Zurich, Luzern and Zug.
-### Zur Struktur
-Wir haben in letzter Zeit die Bezirke vergrössert und kantonsweit (Kantone sind bei uns die "Bundesländer") organisiert. So haben wir eine grössere Abdeckung und recht klare Grenzen. Es gibt noch 6 weitere Kantone, die wir mit Aushilfsbotschaftern besetzt haben. So bekommen wir fast immer mit, wenn sich jemand anmeldet, jeder fühlt sich irgendwo zugehörig und wir können beim Aufbau neuer Gruppierungen helfen. Die grossen Bezirke sind gut für die Vernetzung und vermindern natürlich auch übermässige Administration.
+### How we are structured
-Leider sind ein paar deutschsprachige Kantone und (bis auf Genf) alle (für mich) fremdsprachigen Kantone noch nicht abgedeckt. Im Grunde wäre es gerade in den Grenzgebieten eine gute Chance, polyglotte Foodsaver zu finden, aber leider weiss ich gar nicht so genau, wo und wie an der Übersetzung unserer Homepage gearbeitet wird. Rein theoretisch bestünden hier u. U. realistische Chancen auf den Einstieg ins Französische und Italienische. Das mal für den Hinterkopf.
+We recently enlarged the districts and are organized in our [cantons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantons_of_Switzerland), so we can cover more areas and have clearer borders. There are six more cantons with assistant ambassadors, that way we usually know when there’s a new sign-up, everybody belongs to some district and we can help build up new groups. The big districts are good for networking and decrease the annoying overhead of administration.
-### Zur Orga
-Wir sind recht klein und kennen uns gegenseitig in vielen Fällen. Das ganze Land ist nicht übermässig gross, weshalb ein Austausch generell machbar ist, so denn nötig. Wie in Deutschland haben wir auch ein Landesforum, welches bei uns aber klappt und auch genutzt wird. Sind halt nicht so schrecklich viele Leute drin, die die Homepage in die Knie zwingen.
-Neben den Bezirks-Adressen führen wir eine landesweite E-Mail-Adresse info@foodsharingschweiz.ch, welche auch immer reger für Kontaktanfragen aus unserem Umfeld genutzt wird. [www.foodsharingschweiz.ch]((https://foodsharingschweiz.ch/)) ist unsere offizielle Domain. Sehr unschön in meinen Augen, aber foodsharing.ch ist leider bisher nicht erwerbbar.
-Neben ein paar mehr oder weniger aktiven Facebook-Seiten haben wir dann noch [eine Wiki-Seite](https://wiki.foodsharing.de/Schweiz) anzubieten.
+Sadly there are some cantons that aren’t covered by foodsharing, some German-speaking ones and (except Genf) all of the non-German-speaking ones. It would be easy to find polyglot foodsavers in the borderlands, but I don’t really know, where and how the translation of the website is going on. But just to keep it in mind: This could be a start for foodsharing in French and Italian language.
+
+### How we are organized
+
+We are small and most of us know each other. Switzerland isn’t big, so staying in contact is quite easy when necessary. Like in Germany we have a country-wide forum, but ours works and is used: Since we are not that many people that put pressure on the platform, in our case it doesn’t break. Furthermore we have the country-wide mailing address info@foodsharingschweiz.ch, which also is increasingly used by people from the surroundings, who want to get in contact. Our domain is [foodsharingschweiz.ch](https://foodsharingschweiz.ch/). Not very pretty, but, so far we couldn’t get foodsharing.ch. Apart from some more or less active facebook pages we also have a [page on the foodsharing.de wiki](https://wiki.foodsharing.de/Schweiz).
-### Unser Umfeld
-Es gibt in der Schweiz ziemlich viele Einrichtungen, die sich mit unserer Thematik oder aber deutlich karitativerem Umgang mit Lebensmitteln widmen. Wir geben uns Mühe, uns mit diesen zu vernetzen. Auf unserer Karte seht Ihr einige auch eingetragen. Neue FS in diesen Regionen können wir so schnell zu Alternativen lotsen. Zudem können wir bei Anfragen von Firmen etc. in vielen Fällen schnell eine Lösungsmöglichkeit in deren Nähe aufzeigen.
+### Our surroundings
+
+In Switzerland there are a lot of initiatives dedicated to our topic and even more charities handling food. We try to build a joint network with them and some are already listed on our map. This way we can show new foodsavers some alternatives in their regions quite easily. And we sometimes can find local solutions in case of companies requesting help from us.
+
+### Comparison to Germany
-### Ein Vergleich zu Deutschland
-Im Grunde halten wir uns an das original Reglement. Oft besteht kein Bedarf das zu ändern. Die Fair-Teiler haben zum Teil strengere Regeln. Das kommunizieren wir dann gleich am FT selbst. Die Rechtevereinbarung ist vermutlich für uns auch nicht 100 % anwendbar. Es kann manchmal komisch sein, auf die deutschen Vorlagen zu verweisen und teils ist es auch einfach gar nicht vollständig passend, aber bisher hatten wir noch keine Problem hiermit.
-Das Thema "Vereine" ist bei uns derzeit auch aktuell. Zug ist bereits einer und Zürich wird gerade einer. Einerseits, weil wir natürlich in Deutschland mitlesen und andererseits, weil sich uns neue Kooperationsmöglichkeiten bieten und wir und sogar das Attribut "Gemeinnützigkeit" erhoffen. Vereinsgründung ist hier einfacher als in D. Ein schweizweiter Verein wäre u. U. auch sinnvoll. Aber noch nicht in Arbeit.
+Basically we abide by the same rules. Often there is no need to change anything. We have stricter rules at the food-share points. But we communicate this at the food-share point itself. Also the legal agreement isn’t 100% the same. It happens that referring to the German guidelines gets weird and sometimes it just doesn’t fit but so far there were no problems.
+Right now associations are a hot topic in Switzerland as well. Zug already is one and Zurich is about to become an association. On the one hand it’s because we know what’s happening in Germany, on the one hand we see new cooperation possibilities arise. Also, we hope to be granted the term “charitable”. Founding an association is a lot easier here than in Germany. An association for the whole of Switzerland could also make sense, but it is not being worked on yet.
-### Akzeptanz in der Gesellschaft
-Das Thema Foodwaste kommt hier, vermutlich wie auch bei Euch, derzeit sehr in Mode. Es wird viel darüber gesprochen und es herrscht allgemein grosses Interesse und Wohlwollen. Anfragen aus Wirtschaft, Presse, Bildungssektor... nehmen (nach meinem Gefühl) zu. Wir können hier tatsächlich als Berater und Unterstützer auftreten. Wenn ein Betrieb unsere Hilfe erbittet, ist die Koop natürlich einfacher und weniger steif.
-Die Fair-Teiler werden gut geleert und es gab noch keine grossen Probleme mit Ämtern. Wir sind aber auch streng mit uns selbst.
-Es ist teils (hier spreche ich insbesondere für Zürich) gar nicht so einfach, grosse Mengen Essen loszuwerden. Die karitativen Einrichtungen arbeiten sehr effektiv, die Standards sind hoch, die Möglichkeiten eines hohen Personaleinsatzes teils nicht so gross und ganz allgemein ist glücklicherweise der Bedarf an Lebensmitteln an vielen Stellen gedeckt. In Zürich haben wir somit oft mit zu viel Lebensmitteln zu tun. Vermutlich ein Unterschied zu anderen Bezirken.
+### Acceptance in society
+
+Food waste is a topic, that is discussed a lot at the moment, as you probably know. People talk about it and there is a common interest and goodwill. I have the feeling that requests from different public sectors like economy, press and education increase. We can become professional advisers and supporters in this context. Also, a cooperation born from a store asking for help is easier and less stiff, of course.
+The food-share points are frequently used and there have not been big problems with the authorities so far. But we are quite strict with ourselves.
+Speaking for Zurich it sometimes is not so easy to get rid of big amounts of food. Charities work effectively but with high standards. They are not so likely to dispatch a lot of staff and luckily in general their demand for food is already covered. So in Zurich we usually have way too much food. This is maybe different in other districts.
-### Sonst so
-Es gibt derzeit zwei BOTs mit Orga-Rechten in CH. Das sind Tilman P. und ich (Peter T.). Wir holen uns unsere Verstossmeldungen selbst aus dem System. Sehr überschaubar.
+### What else
+
+At the moment there are two ambassadors with the orga rights in Switzerland *(translator’s note: This refers to specifics of how the German platform is organized. People with orga rights basically can do everything on the platform)*. It’s Tilman P. and me (Peter T.). We take the violation reports directly from the system which is manageable. *(yet another translator’s note: If you’re interested in the functionality of the foodsharing.de platform you can watch [this 5 minute video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8luGiP7cE2c) whith English subtitles.)*
+
+### About me
-### Zu mir
-Noch ganz schnell. Ich bin eigentlich Kölner, habe in Aachen studiert. Gucke also immer recht interessiert nach NRW. Seit 5 Jahren in der Schweiz und foodsharing hier bei der Suche nach ner Bohrmaschine in der Nachbarschaft entdeckt. Derzeit Botschafter von fünf Kantonen, Weiterleiter aller D und CH Verstossmeldungen, manchmal Nervensäge im IT-Team...
-Ich muss gestehen, ich bin derzeit stolz, wie unsere Bezirke laufen. Haben ein tolles Team. Ihr seid herzlich eingeladen, einfach mal reinzuspinksen. Stehe für alle Fragen immer zur Verfügung.
+In short: I’m actually from Cologne and studied in Aachen. So I sometimes still glimpse over to NRW. I’ve been in Switzerland for 5 years and discovered foodsharing while looking for a drill in the neighbourhood. I’m ambassador of 5 cantons right now, transmitter of all the violations in Germany and Switzerland, sometimes a bug the IT-team…
+I’m really proud of how things are going in our districts. We have a great team. You are hearitly invited to have a glimpse inside. We are open for questions.
-Lieben Gruss, Peter im Namen Eurer vielen Kollegen in der Schweiz
+Warmest regards,
+Peter in the name of all the Swiss fellows
-Fotos von
+Photos by
Andrew Bossi,
Schulerst and
-MadGeographer.
+MadGeographer.
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+---
+title: "Foodsharing Switzerland - The current Status Quo"
+date: 12:00 15-09-2017
+headline: As posted in the international working group on foodsharing.de
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: peter
+---
+
+Dear all, I’ve been asked to tell about the situation in Switzerland which I’ll gladly do. I’m not so sure what could be interesting, so [feel free to ask](mailto:peter.toennies@gmail.com) for more info.
+
+### First of all some random numbers
+
+* 1161 foodsavers, 20 ambassadors, 244 stores, 99 cooperations
+* 112.175kg saved food from 10.178 pick-ups
+* 12 ambassadors are active on a daily basis
+* 12 districts, 5 are actually active: Basel, Bern, Zurich, Luzern and Zug.
+
+
+
+### How we are structured
+
+We recently enlarged the districts and are organized in our [cantons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantons_of_Switzerland), so we can cover more areas and have clearer borders. There are six more cantons with assistant ambassadors, that way we usually know when there’s a new sign-up, everybody belongs to some district and we can help build up new groups. The big districts are good for networking and decrease the annoying overhead of administration.
+
+Sadly there are some cantons that aren’t covered by foodsharing, some German-speaking ones and (except Genf) all of the non-German-speaking ones. It would be easy to find polyglot foodsavers in the borderlands, but I don’t really know, where and how the translation of the website is going on. But just to keep it in mind: This could be a start for foodsharing in French and Italian language.
+
+### How we are organized
+
+We are small and most of us know each other. Switzerland isn’t big, so staying in contact is quite easy when necessary. Like in Germany we have a country-wide forum, but ours works and is used: Since we are not that many people that put pressure on the platform, in our case it doesn’t break. Furthermore we have the country-wide mailing address info@foodsharingschweiz.ch, which also is increasingly used by people from the surroundings, who want to get in contact. Our domain is [foodsharingschweiz.ch](https://foodsharingschweiz.ch/). Not very pretty, but, so far we couldn’t get foodsharing.ch. Apart from some more or less active facebook pages we also have a [page on the foodsharing.de wiki](https://wiki.foodsharing.de/Schweiz).
+
+
+
+### Our surroundings
+
+In Switzerland there are a lot of initiatives dedicated to our topic and even more charities handling food. We try to build a joint network with them and some are already listed on our map. This way we can show new foodsavers some alternatives in their regions quite easily. And we sometimes can find local solutions in case of companies requesting help from us.
+
+### Comparison to Germany
+
+Basically we abide by the same rules. Often there is no need to change anything. We have stricter rules at the food-share points. But we communicate this at the food-share point itself. Also the legal agreement isn’t 100% the same. It happens that referring to the German guidelines gets weird and sometimes it just doesn’t fit but so far there were no problems.
+Right now associations are a hot topic in Switzerland as well. Zug already is one and Zurich is about to become an association. On the one hand it’s because we know what’s happening in Germany, on the one hand we see new cooperation possibilities arise. Also, we hope to be granted the term “charitable”. Founding an association is a lot easier here than in Germany. An association for the whole of Switzerland could also make sense, but it is not being worked on yet.
+
+### Acceptance in society
+
+Food waste is a topic, that is discussed a lot at the moment, as you probably know. People talk about it and there is a common interest and goodwill. I have the feeling that requests from different public sectors like economy, press and education increase. We can become professional advisers and supporters in this context. Also, a cooperation born from a store asking for help is easier and less stiff, of course.
+The food-share points are frequently used and there have not been big problems with the authorities so far. But we are quite strict with ourselves.
+Speaking for Zurich it sometimes is not so easy to get rid of big amounts of food. Charities work effectively but with high standards. They are not so likely to dispatch a lot of staff and luckily in general their demand for food is already covered. So in Zurich we usually have way too much food. This is maybe different in other districts.
+
+
+
+### What else
+
+At the moment there are two ambassadors with the orga rights in Switzerland *(translator’s note: This refers to specifics of how the German platform is organized. People with orga rights basically can do everything on the platform)*. It’s Tilman P. and me (Peter T.). We take the violation reports directly from the system which is manageable. *(yet another translator’s note: If you’re interested in the functionality of the foodsharing.de platform you can watch [this 5 minute video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8luGiP7cE2c) whith English subtitles.)*
+
+### About me
+
+In short: I’m actually from Cologne and studied in Aachen. So I sometimes still glimpse over to NRW. I’ve been in Switzerland for 5 years and discovered foodsharing while looking for a drill in the neighbourhood. I’m ambassador of 5 cantons right now, transmitter of all the violations in Germany and Switzerland, sometimes a bug the IT-team…
+I’m really proud of how things are going in our districts. We have a great team. You are hearitly invited to have a glimpse inside. We are open for questions.
+
+Warmest regards,
+Peter in the name of all the Swiss fellows
+
+Photos by
+Andrew Bossi,
+Schulerst and
+MadGeographer.
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+---
+title: Fairteiler in Polen
+date: 13:01 27-02-2018
+headline: Wir lernen Lebensmittel nicht zu verschwenden!
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Magdalena Dubrowska
+---
+
+*Dieser Artikel wurde zuerst am 13.4.2017 von cojestgrane24 veröffentlicht. [Klicke hier um das polische Original zu lesen](http://cojestgrane24.wyborcza.pl/cjg24/1,13,21634177,147811,Jadlodzielnie-w-Polsce--Uczymy-sie-nie-wyrzucac-je.html). Alle Bilder sind ebenfalls dem Artikel entnommen. Keine Urheberrechtsverletzung beabsichtigt!*
+
+Wenn du nach Weihnachten noch Eier mit Mayo, Salate oder Kuchen übrig haben solltest, wirf sie nicht weg! Bring Lebensmittel, die du nicht selbst essen kannst zu Fairteilern - solche Essens-Verteilstationen gibt es jetzt in sieben Städten in Polen.
+
+Ein Fairteiler (Jadłodzielnia auf Polnisch) ist ein Kühlschrank und/oder Regal auf öffentlich zugänglichem Raum. Hier kann jedeR Essen entnehmen oder für andere hinterlegen. Es gibt keine Beschränkungen, außer die, kein verdorbenes Essen abzulegen, sowie kein rohes Fleisch, keinen Alkohol und keine zubereiteten Speisen, die rohes Ei enthalten, wie zB selbstgemachte Mayonnaise.
+
+ *21-03-2017 Stettin. Die Freiwillige Ania im Feirteiler an der ul. Kordeckiego. Foto von Cezary Aszkielowicz / Agencja Gazeta*
+
+In Krakow, such a point is located in the Jordan Caffe café, in Szczecin - at the Turzyn Market Square, in Wrocław at the Student House, in Bydgoszcz at the University of Economy, in Grudziądz and Toruń at the fair. In Warsaw, where the first Food-Share Point in Poland was established at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Warsaw, there are already six of them.
+
+Each of them can be found on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/FoodsharingPolska/). The pictures show that the fridges are filled with all possible delicacies from bread and cheese over vegetables to preserves and jars. There are donuts, juices and ready-made sandwiches.
+
+The first Food-Share Point was founded by Karolina Hansen and Agnieszka Bielska. They got to know each other in the organization of Food Banks, where surplus food from businesses is distributed to the needy.
+
+ *Karolina Hansen and Agnieszka Bielska in front of the very first Food-Share Point in Warsaw. Picture by Franciszek Mazur*
+
+'A lot of food is wasted in the world. Dates of shelf life are estimated so that the products are thrown away, despite the fact that they are still fit for consumption' - says Karolina Hansen. 'We wanted to show people that wasting food is not a problem that only affects stores and institutions, but also our homes.'
+
+On the Internet, they found information about the German organization [Foodsharing](https://foodsharing.de), setting up points where everyone can share food. They went to Germany for a meeting and asked a lot of questions: where to start, how to care for the Food-Share Point. The first fridge, which someone gave them for free, was set up in May 2017 on the ground floor of the Faculty of Psychology. That's where Karolina Hansen works. She conducts classes in social psychology, studies prejudices and stereotypes.
+
+> The best place for the Food-Share Point is one that is accessible for people and open as long as possible. Of course, you can organize such a fridge at work, at school, in a housing estate or in a block of flats.
+
+The students at the Faculty of Psychology make use of the independent studies, but there are also regular outsiders. 'What you leave will disappear very quickly' says Karolina Hansen. 'I check the fridge every day, clean it and make sure it runs smoothly.'
+
+> The biggest activity at the Food-Share Points can be witnessed during holidays - there are surpluses from private tables, but also from catering from corporate events.
+
+'When we want to give food, it is worth checking if there is a fridge or just a cupboard in the Food-Share Point. Egg with mayonnaise is better to put in the fridge; bread, fruit or vegetables can be left in the cabinet' instructs Karolina Hansen. 'Although, of course, it's best to plan holidays so that we do not have anything left. There are plenty of economic and ecological arguments for which we should not waste food. First, we invest energy, time, money, land, to produce, transport, pack, send to stores, buy and then discard. It does not make sense!'
+
+ *Jadłodzielnia with Mrs. Beata in Szczecin at ul. Kordeckiego. Picture by Cezary Aszkielowicz / Agencja Gazeta*
+
+The idea of Foodsharing is growing. 15 people are involved in taking care of the Food-Share Points of Warsaw. Recently at the congress in Toruń there were people from 16 cities in Poland who would like to set up such points.
+
+In Poland, almost 10 million tons of food are wasted annually, 2 million of which in households - according to data collected in the report "Do not waste food 2016" developed by the Federation of Polish Food Banks. Every Pole counts about 52 kg of food per year. This gives us the fifth place in the amount of food wasted in the entire European Union - behind Great Britain, Germany, France and the Netherlands. The products most often wasted are: bread, meats, vegetables and fruits.
+
+All addresses of Food-Share Points in Poland can be found on [this interactive map](https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1vpCSdHuflmBIw4WWV3VFCQ4L2sU&ll=51.81707170821971%2C17.788496699999996&z=6), which gets updated regularly.
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+---
+title: Food-Share Points in Poland
+date: 13:01 27-02-2018
+headline: We learn not to throw away food!
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Magdalena Dubrowska
+---
+
+*This article was published on 13-04-2017 by cojestgrane24. [Click here to see the Polish original](http://cojestgrane24.wyborcza.pl/cjg24/1,13,21634177,147811,Jadlodzielnie-w-Polsce--Uczymy-sie-nie-wyrzucac-je.html). All pictures are taken from that article as well. No copyright infringement intended!*
+
+If you are left with eggs with mayonnaise, salad or cake after Christmas, do not throw it away! Bring products that you can not eat to the Food-Share Points. Such points are in seven cities in Poland.
+
+A Food-Share Point (Jadłodzielnia in Polish) is a refrigerator and/or a cabinet, standing in public places. Everyone can leave food or take it from here. There are no restrictions, besides, not to put spoiled food, raw meat, alcohol and products containing raw eggs, i.e. homemade mayonnaise.
+
+ *21-03-2017 Szczecin. Volunteer Ania in Jadłodzielnia at ul. Kordeckiego. Picture by Cezary Aszkielowicz / Agencja Gazeta*
+
+In Krakow, such a point is located in the Jordan Caffe café, in Szczecin - at the Turzyn Market Square, in Wrocław at the Student House, in Bydgoszcz at the University of Economy, in Grudziądz and Toruń at the fair. In Warsaw, where the first Food-Share Point in Poland was established at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Warsaw, there are already six of them.
+
+Each of them can be found on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/FoodsharingPolska/). The pictures show that the fridges are filled with all possible delicacies from bread and cheese over vegetables to preserves and jars. There are donuts, juices and ready-made sandwiches.
+
+The first Food-Share Point was founded by Karolina Hansen and Agnieszka Bielska. They got to know each other in the organization of Food Banks, where surplus food from businesses is distributed to the needy.
+
+ *Karolina Hansen and Agnieszka Bielska in front of the very first Food-Share Point in Warsaw. Picture by Franciszek Mazur*
+
+'A lot of food is wasted in the world. Dates of shelf life are estimated so that the products are thrown away, despite the fact that they are still fit for consumption' - says Karolina Hansen. 'We wanted to show people that wasting food is not a problem that only affects stores and institutions, but also our homes.'
+
+On the Internet, they found information about the German organization [Foodsharing](https://foodsharing.de), setting up points where everyone can share food. They went to Germany for a meeting and asked a lot of questions: where to start, how to care for the Food-Share Point. The first fridge, which someone gave them for free, was set up in May 2017 on the ground floor of the Faculty of Psychology. That's where Karolina Hansen works. She conducts classes in social psychology, studies prejudices and stereotypes.
+
+> The best place for the Food-Share Point is one that is accessible for people and open as long as possible. Of course, you can organize such a fridge at work, at school, in a housing estate or in a block of flats.
+
+The students at the Faculty of Psychology make use of the independent studies, but there are also regular outsiders. 'What you leave will disappear very quickly' says Karolina Hansen. 'I check the fridge every day, clean it and make sure it runs smoothly.'
+
+> The biggest activity at the Food-Share Points can be witnessed during holidays - there are surpluses from private tables, but also from catering from corporate events.
+
+'When we want to give food, it is worth checking if there is a fridge or just a cupboard in the Food-Share Point. Egg with mayonnaise is better to put in the fridge; bread, fruit or vegetables can be left in the cabinet' instructs Karolina Hansen. 'Although, of course, it's best to plan holidays so that we do not have anything left. There are plenty of economic and ecological arguments for which we should not waste food. First, we invest energy, time, money, land, to produce, transport, pack, send to stores, buy and then discard. It does not make sense!'
+
+ *Jadłodzielnia with Mrs. Beata in Szczecin at ul. Kordeckiego. Picture by Cezary Aszkielowicz / Agencja Gazeta*
+
+The idea of Foodsharing is growing. 15 people are involved in taking care of the Food-Share Points of Warsaw. Recently at the congress in Toruń there were people from 16 cities in Poland who would like to set up such points.
+
+In Poland, almost 10 million tons of food are wasted annually, 2 million of which in households - according to data collected in the report "Do not waste food 2016" developed by the Federation of Polish Food Banks. Every Pole counts about 52 kg of food per year. This gives us the fifth place in the amount of food wasted in the entire European Union - behind Great Britain, Germany, France and the Netherlands. The products most often wasted are: bread, meats, vegetables and fruits.
+
+All addresses of Food-Share Points in Poland can be found on [this interactive map](https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1vpCSdHuflmBIw4WWV3VFCQ4L2sU&ll=51.81707170821971%2C17.788496699999996&z=6), which gets updated regularly.
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+---
+title: How foodsharing in Germany began
+date: 23-03-2018
+headline: An article from Russia
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Anna Uspenskaya
+---
+
+*This article was first published in Russian on [foodsharing.ru](https://foodsharing.ru/blog/fudshering-v-germanii/) in June 2017. We repost it here in translated versions with friendly permission from the original author.*
+
+
+
+Friends, we want to tell you about the history of the fight against food waste in different countries of the world. We will begin, of course, with Germany, because it was there where our parent project was born.
+
+The majority of Russian-speaking Internet users learned about German foodsharing from the livejournal of Jana Frank - an illustrator and writer living in Berlin and leading a blog in Russian, a member of German foodsharing.
+
+Foodsavers are given food surplus which can not be taken by food banks. Most of the unsold products are taken by food banks and redistributed to needy and socially disadvantaged layers of society. One of the largest food banks in Germany is Die Tafeln. The food banks have rather strict restrictions on products: they can only take large quantities of goods, they can not take expired goods, and so on. Sometimes there are overlays and they just do not have time to arrive at the right time and ensure that the products get picked up. Foodsharing is smaller, but more flexible, and thus able to pick up surplus products, whether it's about 100 kg of vegetables or about 10 kg of bread rolls.
+
+## How did the German foodsharing start?
+
+One of the founders of the movement in Germany is Valentin Thurn, a German researcher, journalist and filmmaker who shoots documentaries on environmental issues.
+
+
+
+When preparing the film "Taste The Waste", which received a lot of environmental awards, Valentin Thurn held a lot of interviews with various specialists - owners of poultry farms, scientists, farmers and food industry workers. One of the main conclusions to which the researcher came: Despite modern transport, mobile refrigerators, despite food banks and other programs, mankind throws away tons of edible food, both in industry and in households, on a daily basis.
+
+We suggest you familiarize yourself with the short film "Waste" by Valentin Thurn. In it, in just 6 minutes, the grave consequences food waste holds for the whole planet are made apparent:
+
+[plugin:youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaouOWx3Bmo)
+
+In 2012, Thurn and other like-minded people launched the first version of foodsharing.de, where people could post "food baskets" - analogous of the announcements in the groups "I'll give food for free" (“Отдам еду даром”) in Russian social networks.
+
+The second co-founder of German foodsharing - Raphael Fellmer - is widely known for his experiment "5 years without money." During this time he lived off the excess of society: He dumpster dived in garbage dumps or got stuff from random people who wanted to get rid of unnecessary things. With his extreme experiment, he showed that society throws out so many resources that this amount is quite enough for a comfortable life with all the necessary products: goods, clothes, food.
+
+
+
+He repeatedly found whole lots of quite suitable products in the dumpsters of supermarkets, collected them and carried them to the people. This made the activist decide to try and form official cooperations with the shops, so that they would give out the products directly, without throwing them into the trash first. After all, when food is found in a garbage can, hygienic storage conditions are violated, the product can be affected by rodents and insects. So Raphael undertook to come to the most convenient time for shops, take the goods immediately after the write-off, and then carry them on his bike with a cart and give them out to people. The first partners have appeared. Of course, for each organization it was necessary to collect a team of permanent volunteers, since one person is not able to cope not only with a large volume, but also with the task to arrive at the right time every day and then distribute the products received. One of the first large companies to join was the organic supermarket chain [Bio Company](https://www.biocompany.de/), which openly announced its participation in the new environmental initiative.
+
+Subsequently, Fellmer and Thurn joined their projects on the same platform, and the website [foodsharing.de](https://foodsharing.de) was created in the form in which it exists now. According to the website, during the existence of the project, foodsavers collected and distributed more than 7 million kilograms of products that would otherwise have added to the garbage. The platform is also used by foodsavers in Austria and Switzerland.
+
+The founders put the main emphasis on the ecological harm of food waste for the whole planet, because the production of each item has used up resources - water, soil, effort and time.
+
+Currently, activists and the team are continuing to work on foodsharing in Germany, as well as on new projects to combat food waste around the world.
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+---
+title: How foodsharing in Germany began
+date: 23-03-2018
+headline: An article from Russia
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Anna Uspenskaya
+---
+
+*This article was first published in Russian on [foodsharing.ru](https://foodsharing.ru/blog/fudshering-v-germanii/) in June 2017. We repost it here in translated versions with friendly permission from the original author.*
+
+
+
+Friends, we want to tell you about the history of the fight against food waste in different countries of the world. We will begin, of course, with Germany, because it was there where our parent project was born.
+
+The majority of Russian-speaking Internet users learned about German foodsharing from the livejournal of Jana Frank - an illustrator and writer living in Berlin and leading a blog in Russian, a member of German foodsharing.
+
+Foodsavers are given food surplus which can not be taken by food banks. Most of the unsold products are taken by food banks and redistributed to needy and socially disadvantaged layers of society. One of the largest food banks in Germany is Die Tafeln. The food banks have rather strict restrictions on products: they can only take large quantities of goods, they can not take expired goods, and so on. Sometimes there are overlays and they just do not have time to arrive at the right time and ensure that the products get picked up. Foodsharing is smaller, but more flexible, and thus able to pick up surplus products, whether it's about 100 kg of vegetables or about 10 kg of bread rolls.
+
+## How did the German foodsharing start?
+
+One of the founders of the movement in Germany is Valentin Thurn, a German researcher, journalist and filmmaker who shoots documentaries on environmental issues.
+
+
+
+When preparing the film "Taste The Waste", which received a lot of environmental awards, Valentin Thurn held a lot of interviews with various specialists - owners of poultry farms, scientists, farmers and food industry workers. One of the main conclusions to which the researcher came: Despite modern transport, mobile refrigerators, despite food banks and other programs, mankind throws away tons of edible food, both in industry and in households, on a daily basis.
+
+We suggest you familiarize yourself with the short film "Waste" by Valentin Thurn. In it, in just 6 minutes, the grave consequences food waste holds for the whole planet are made apparent:
+
+[plugin:youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaouOWx3Bmo)
+
+In 2012, Thurn and other like-minded people launched the first version of foodsharing.de, where people could post "food baskets" - analogous of the announcements in the groups "I'll give food for free" (“Отдам еду даром”) in Russian social networks.
+
+The second co-founder of German foodsharing - Raphael Fellmer - is widely known for his experiment "5 years without money." During this time he lived off the excess of society: He dumpster dived in garbage dumps or got stuff from random people who wanted to get rid of unnecessary things. With his extreme experiment, he showed that society throws out so many resources that this amount is quite enough for a comfortable life with all the necessary products: goods, clothes, food.
+
+
+
+He repeatedly found whole lots of quite suitable products in the dumpsters of supermarkets, collected them and carried them to the people. This made the activist decide to try and form official cooperations with the shops, so that they would give out the products directly, without throwing them into the trash first. After all, when food is found in a garbage can, hygienic storage conditions are violated, the product can be affected by rodents and insects. So Raphael undertook to come to the most convenient time for shops, take the goods immediately after the write-off, and then carry them on his bike with a cart and give them out to people. The first partners have appeared. Of course, for each organization it was necessary to collect a team of permanent volunteers, since one person is not able to cope not only with a large volume, but also with the task to arrive at the right time every day and then distribute the products received. One of the first large companies to join was the organic supermarket chain [Bio Company](https://www.biocompany.de/), which openly announced its participation in the new environmental initiative.
+
+Subsequently, Fellmer and Thurn joined their projects on the same platform, and the website [foodsharing.de](https://foodsharing.de) was created in the form in which it exists now. According to the website, during the existence of the project, foodsavers collected and distributed more than 7 million kilograms of products that would otherwise have added to the garbage. The platform is also used by foodsavers in Austria and Switzerland.
+
+The founders put the main emphasis on the ecological harm of food waste for the whole planet, because the production of each item has used up resources - water, soil, effort and time.
+
+Currently, activists and the team are continuing to work on foodsharing in Germany, as well as on new projects to combat food waste around the world.
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+---
+title: Foodsaving in the United Kingdom
+date: 31-03-2018
+headline: Another article from Russia
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Anna Uspenskaya
+---
+
+*This article was first published in Russian on [foodsharing.ru](https://foodsharing.ru/blog/fudshering-v-velikobritanii/) in November 2017. We repost it here in translated versions with friendly permission from the original author.*
+
+
+
+Today we continue the story about the fight against food waste in various countries of the world and talk about the UK.
+
+Great Britain, the country with the highest level of economic development, of course also faced the issue of food waste. Unlike many other countries it already has a pretty long history of fighting this problem, and it is important to mention that the state takes an active part in this endeavor. Let's talk about how the situation develops in our time.
+
+In 2000 the organization WRAP was created. Its name stands for [Waste & Resources Action Program](http://www.wrap.org.uk/), the main goal is to help enterprises, communities and individuals move to the so-called circular economy instead of the usual linear models of production and consumption. The organization conducts educational work, which over the past few years has produced significant results. From a statement by Liz Goodman, CEO of WRAP: "In the UK, we demonstrated how reducing food waste by involving consumers and signing agreements with retail chains and brands can ease pressure on the environment and promote economic growth."
+
+In addition to state programs, private initiatives also play an important role. One of the most famous is [The Real Junk Food Project](http://therealjunkfoodproject.org/). This project consists of a network of shops and cafés, where excess food is offered to customers on a "pay as you feel" basis. Anyone can take as many products for free as they need, and those who want to support the project can give donations that help pay rent and store services.
+
+
+
+The project already has more than 100 shops and cafes, also in other countries - in France, Germany and even Australia. Their main goal is to allow people to eat good products that their producers are ready to throw out for some reason or another. The amusing slogan "feed bellies not bins" encourages people to feed humans, not garbage cans.
+
+**Olio** is an application for non-commercial peer-to-peer exchange of food. The application is available anywhere in the world. It has a map and the convenient option to sort items by distance to the user or freshness. You can even set up notifications, and if someone will give food next to you, you will receive a signal. In Russia, the application is not too common yet - probably because of the English interface. However, all functions are made convenient and intuitive even for those who only know the English language very superficially.
+
+
+
+The team maintains a website containing materials on the topic food waste. They also have a catchy slogan, with which they invite for participation: "bin labels, not food!"
+
+Another serious contribution to the fight against food waste and the popularization of the idea of careful handling of food is made by Tristram Stuart. He doesn't need a verbose introduction, just look at his vivid performance on TED (subtitles are available in many languages):
+
+[plugin:youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWC_zDdF74s)
+
+Even the business sphere has been affected by these trends. [Winnowsolutions](http://www.winnowsolutions.com/) offers its customers a high-tech food waste analysis and accounting system that allows to analyze and reduce waste, the company also maintains a blog on the site. Reducing costs is profitable and promising!
+
+We see that in order to work on reducing the amount of food waste, unanimity of the society is necessary: both state organizations and private enterprises, as well as ordinary people are needed. The issue of food waste concerns all of us, and everyone can help to make a difference.
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+---
+title: Foodsaving in the United Kingdom
+date: 31-03-2018
+headline: Another article from Russia
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Anna Uspenskaya
+---
+
+*This article was first published in Russian on [foodsharing.ru](https://foodsharing.ru/blog/fudshering-v-velikobritanii/) in November 2017. We repost it here in translated versions with friendly permission from the original author.*
+
+
+
+Today we continue the story about the fight against food waste in various countries of the world and talk about the UK.
+
+Great Britain, the country with the highest level of economic development, of course also faced the issue of food waste. Unlike many other countries it already has a pretty long history of fighting this problem, and it is important to mention that the state takes an active part in this endeavor. Let's talk about how the situation develops in our time.
+
+In 2000 the organization WRAP was created. Its name stands for [Waste & Resources Action Program](http://www.wrap.org.uk/), the main goal is to help enterprises, communities and individuals move to the so-called circular economy instead of the usual linear models of production and consumption. The organization conducts educational work, which over the past few years has produced significant results. From a statement by Liz Goodman, CEO of WRAP: "In the UK, we demonstrated how reducing food waste by involving consumers and signing agreements with retail chains and brands can ease pressure on the environment and promote economic growth."
+
+In addition to state programs, private initiatives also play an important role. One of the most famous is [The Real Junk Food Project](http://therealjunkfoodproject.org/). This project consists of a network of shops and cafés, where excess food is offered to customers on a "pay as you feel" basis. Anyone can take as many products for free as they need, and those who want to support the project can give donations that help pay rent and store services.
+
+
+
+The project already has more than 100 shops and cafes, also in other countries - in France, Germany and even Australia. Their main goal is to allow people to eat good products that their producers are ready to throw out for some reason or another. The amusing slogan "feed bellies not bins" encourages people to feed humans, not garbage cans.
+
+**Olio** is an application for non-commercial peer-to-peer exchange of food. The application is available anywhere in the world. It has a map and the convenient option to sort items by distance to the user or freshness. You can even set up notifications, and if someone will give food next to you, you will receive a signal. In Russia, the application is not too common yet - probably because of the English interface. However, all functions are made convenient and intuitive even for those who only know the English language very superficially.
+
+
+
+The team maintains a website containing materials on the topic food waste. They also have a catchy slogan, with which they invite for participation: "bin labels, not food!"
+
+Another serious contribution to the fight against food waste and the popularization of the idea of careful handling of food is made by Tristram Stuart. He doesn't need a verbose introduction, just look at his vivid performance on TED (subtitles are available in many languages):
+
+[plugin:youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWC_zDdF74s)
+
+Even the business sphere has been affected by these trends. [Winnowsolutions](http://www.winnowsolutions.com/) offers its customers a high-tech food waste analysis and accounting system that allows to analyze and reduce waste, the company also maintains a blog on the site. Reducing costs is profitable and promising!
+
+We see that in order to work on reducing the amount of food waste, unanimity of the society is necessary: both state organizations and private enterprises, as well as ordinary people are needed. The issue of food waste concerns all of us, and everyone can help to make a difference.
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+---
+title: Foodsharing Hong Kong - Part One
+date: 03-05-2018
+headline: A socialist concept in a capitalist city?
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Hang-Shuen Lee
+---
+
+*This is part 1/3.*
+
+It was February 2016. I was sorting out some excess stuff: shampoo that I used once but never really liked; my bicycle seat that is in good condition but could never be resold; a book that made me fall asleep once I’d start reading it. I packed all of them in a tote bag and left my home in Düsseldorf, a German city.
+
+The “Give Box” was just a hundred meters away from my apartment. It was a shelf-like, rectangular prism located right on the edge of the market place. I left my stuff there and took away a dress someone else donated. It’s free to leave and take any objects from the box.
+
+ *The inspiring Give Box in Düsseldorf*
+
+I had no idea this small incident would become the starting point of some unforgettable experiences in the coming months.
+
+After I went home from the 10-minute excursion, I started to look for ideas to write about as a journalist. That's when I came across a Greenpeace report released a few years ago about Hong Kong's supermarket food waste. It was unbearable to see all that fresh food dumped.
+
+Hong Kong is a renowned food paradise, and maybe that's the reason why our people don't really seem to treasure food. We waste as much as 3648 tons of food per day. Our supermarkets ditch around 30 tons of edible foods daily. These shops’ selling strategies often encourage us to make unnecessary bulk purchases and buy groceries that are meant to be forgotten. (I found a pancake mix that expired in 1999 a few years ago) There are food banks, which provide food for the lower-income class. But they seldom accept expired food or in most cases, you have to plan your visit -- which I found demotivating.
+
+It's a sin to throw away food when 795 million people in the world are suffering from hunger. To consume less is probably the best way to reduce food waste, but it's not that easy to completely change your daily routines all of a sudden. All of us have experienced that before.
+
+ *A Fairteiler in Düsseldorf*
+
+An inspiration suddenly struck me: What if I set up a give box for food, a “Fairteiler” like those organized by [foodsharing.de](https://foodsharing.de), in Hong Kong? What will I see, will the plan work at all? Journalists always find stories, but why couldn’t we create them? For once, the passive me, who never really actively does something about environmental problems and usually thinks that it's someone else’s job, now wants to start a social experiment on her own. I’m giving myself three months for a trial. It doesn’t matter if it fails. It doesn’t matter if I never belonged to the active ones and have no connections at all. Just start, and see how it evolves.
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+---
+title: Foodsharing Hong Kong - Part One
+date: 03-05-2018
+headline: A socialist concept in a capitalist city?
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Hang-Shuen Lee
+---
+
+*This is part 1/3.*
+
+It was February 2016. I was sorting out some excess stuff: shampoo that I used once but never really liked; my bicycle seat that is in good condition but could never be resold; a book that made me fall asleep once I’d start reading it. I packed all of them in a tote bag and left my home in Düsseldorf, a German city.
+
+The “Give Box” was just a hundred meters away from my apartment. It was a shelf-like, rectangular prism located right on the edge of the market place. I left my stuff there and took away a dress someone else donated. It’s free to leave and take any objects from the box.
+
+ *The inspiring Give Box in Düsseldorf*
+
+I had no idea this small incident would become the starting point of some unforgettable experiences in the coming months.
+
+After I went home from the 10-minute excursion, I started to look for ideas to write about as a journalist. That's when I came across a Greenpeace report released a few years ago about Hong Kong's supermarket food waste. It was unbearable to see all that fresh food dumped.
+
+Hong Kong is a renowned food paradise, and maybe that's the reason why our people don't really seem to treasure food. We waste as much as 3648 tons of food per day. Our supermarkets ditch around 30 tons of edible foods daily. These shops’ selling strategies often encourage us to make unnecessary bulk purchases and buy groceries that are meant to be forgotten. (I found a pancake mix that expired in 1999 a few years ago) There are food banks, which provide food for the lower-income class. But they seldom accept expired food or in most cases, you have to plan your visit -- which I found demotivating.
+
+It's a sin to throw away food when 795 million people in the world are suffering from hunger. To consume less is probably the best way to reduce food waste, but it's not that easy to completely change your daily routines all of a sudden. All of us have experienced that before.
+
+ *A Fairteiler in Düsseldorf*
+
+An inspiration suddenly struck me: What if I set up a give box for food, a “Fairteiler” like those organized by [foodsharing.de](https://foodsharing.de), in Hong Kong? What will I see, will the plan work at all? Journalists always find stories, but why couldn’t we create them? For once, the passive me, who never really actively does something about environmental problems and usually thinks that it's someone else’s job, now wants to start a social experiment on her own. I’m giving myself three months for a trial. It doesn’t matter if it fails. It doesn’t matter if I never belonged to the active ones and have no connections at all. Just start, and see how it evolves.
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+title: Foodsharing Hong Kong - Part Two
+date: 07-05-2018
+headline: A beginning too smooth to be true...
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Hang-Shuen Lee
+---
+
+*This is part 2/3.*
+
+When I told my brother about the idea to start a food share point in Hong Kong, he was excited. I remember him saying that this is something completely new to Hong Kongers. Judging from our habit to be easily attracted by the new, the experiment might even become popular.
+
+I was lucky; location was not a big hindrance for the project. My friend Charlie owns a tearoom which visitors often describe as “relaxing and tranquil”. It was mid-April when I called her. I asked if she would let me set up a mini fridge and shelf for food sharing. Kind as she is, she said yes quite quickly. “But our shop is in a residential building. It's not very accessible to the neighborhood here”, Charlie warned, “Are you sure this is an ideal location?”. She was right, the tearoom is quite hidden since there are no clear signs pointing towards it from the street level. Yet I just ought to try.
+
+ *The cozy tearoom with the brown mini fridge that acts as the food share point*
+
+Shortly after I confirmed, Charlie introduced me to a group of young people who run a platform for social projects. The platform [Collaction](https://www.collaction.hk/) is similar to crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or IndieGoGo, but resources are raised instead of funds. I set up a project page on there to protocol the initiative’s proceedings. Two weeks later, when I flew back to Hong Kong, I met up with the two co-founders, Amy and Nelson.
+
+“We already got you a used, small fridge,” said the two startuppers at the tearoom. “Eh—What?!?!” My jaw nearly dropped to the floor, because this was not something I expected. I needed nothing else to start the project. The only extra equipment I bought was a shelf for some non-perishable goods. At this point, everything was so smooth I almost couldn't believe it. I came to know Yimini, an artist and professional illustrator through Collaction. She offered to help illustrate the concept with comics. With all this help, I never felt alone. I realized that a lot of individuals are endeavoring to change the city. There are sites and initiatives for exchanging and freeing resources, there is even one especially for food. It is just that I didn't know them, because I never actively participated and never paid attention to these issues.
+
+ *One of the explanatory graphics made by Yimin*
+
+There was a “wall of wishes” at the tearoom, made from clusters of post-it notes in the form of a butterfly. “Food sharing Project: Success!” I wrote down my wish in Chinese and put it up on the wall.
+
+Yet, my hopeful days did not last long. Very soon after I set up a [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/foodsharinghk/) for promotion, I realized that I was stuck in a vicious cycle. To promote the idea, I needed content on social media, i.e. at least some pictures of food. But photos of an empty fridge were utterly meaningless. No content means people will not be reached by the initiative. No exposure, no food; no food, no content, no exposure…you can tell the rest.
+
+ *Nothing in there but a cat...*
+
+Another good friend also brought me down unconsciously. He was more pragmatic than idealistic. He predicted that the project will not work if the station is upstairs. “And in Hong Kong? People might just take away everything. Maybe even the fridge! Some may also resale the products,” he said, indicating that the mentality of we Hong Kongers is simply so different that it would not work as well as in Europe. I was upset, because I feared that what he was saying was not far from the truth. I knew it right at the beginning. Nonetheless, it is exactly the reason why I wanted to try. There are greedy people everywhere in the world. Germany is not an exception. If food sharing could work there and elsewhere, why not in Hong Kong?
+
+It was mid-May; I still had two months to go. By then, no one knew about the project except a few tearoom customers. They did not participate in the project, because nothing was at the station to give them the idea to share, too. One cannot simply say “Hey, here's the station, come and share!” I started to panic, because every day was a count-down to the experiment's end. I must have looked so worried that my parents also started worrying about me. When they asked about the situation, I burst into tears and could not even talk properly.
+
+But then my father came up with a clever, undogmatic tip that would turn everything around...
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+title: Foodsharing Hong Kong - Part Two
+date: 07-05-2018
+headline: A beginning too smooth to be true...
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Hang-Shuen Lee
+---
+
+*This is part 2/3.*
+
+When I told my brother about the idea to start a food share point in Hong Kong, he was excited. I remember him saying that this is something completely new to Hong Kongers. Judging from our habit to be easily attracted by the new, the experiment might even become popular.
+
+I was lucky; location was not a big hindrance for the project. My friend Charlie owns a tearoom which visitors often describe as “relaxing and tranquil”. It was mid-April when I called her. I asked if she would let me set up a mini fridge and shelf for food sharing. Kind as she is, she said yes quite quickly. “But our shop is in a residential building. It's not very accessible to the neighborhood here”, Charlie warned, “Are you sure this is an ideal location?”. She was right, the tearoom is quite hidden since there are no clear signs pointing towards it from the street level. Yet I just ought to try.
+
+ *The cozy tearoom with the brown mini fridge that acts as the food share point*
+
+Shortly after I confirmed, Charlie introduced me to a group of young people who run a platform for social projects. The platform [Collaction](https://www.collaction.hk/) is similar to crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or IndieGoGo, but resources are raised instead of funds. I set up a project page on there to protocol the initiative’s proceedings. Two weeks later, when I flew back to Hong Kong, I met up with the two co-founders, Amy and Nelson.
+
+“We already got you a used, small fridge,” said the two startuppers at the tearoom. “Eh—What?!?!” My jaw nearly dropped to the floor, because this was not something I expected. I needed nothing else to start the project. The only extra equipment I bought was a shelf for some non-perishable goods. At this point, everything was so smooth I almost couldn't believe it. I came to know Yimini, an artist and professional illustrator through Collaction. She offered to help illustrate the concept with comics. With all this help, I never felt alone. I realized that a lot of individuals are endeavoring to change the city. There are sites and initiatives for exchanging and freeing resources, there is even one especially for food. It is just that I didn't know them, because I never actively participated and never paid attention to these issues.
+
+ *One of the explanatory graphics made by Yimin*
+
+There was a “wall of wishes” at the tearoom, made from clusters of post-it notes in the form of a butterfly. “Food sharing Project: Success!” I wrote down my wish in Chinese and put it up on the wall.
+
+Yet, my hopeful days did not last long. Very soon after I set up a [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/foodsharinghk/) for promotion, I realized that I was stuck in a vicious cycle. To promote the idea, I needed content on social media, i.e. at least some pictures of food. But photos of an empty fridge were utterly meaningless. No content means people will not be reached by the initiative. No exposure, no food; no food, no content, no exposure…you can tell the rest.
+
+ *Nothing in there but a cat...*
+
+Another good friend also brought me down unconsciously. He was more pragmatic than idealistic. He predicted that the project will not work if the station is upstairs. “And in Hong Kong? People might just take away everything. Maybe even the fridge! Some may also resale the products,” he said, indicating that the mentality of we Hong Kongers is simply so different that it would not work as well as in Europe. I was upset, because I feared that what he was saying was not far from the truth. I knew it right at the beginning. Nonetheless, it is exactly the reason why I wanted to try. There are greedy people everywhere in the world. Germany is not an exception. If food sharing could work there and elsewhere, why not in Hong Kong?
+
+It was mid-May; I still had two months to go. By then, no one knew about the project except a few tearoom customers. They did not participate in the project, because nothing was at the station to give them the idea to share, too. One cannot simply say “Hey, here's the station, come and share!” I started to panic, because every day was a count-down to the experiment's end. I must have looked so worried that my parents also started worrying about me. When they asked about the situation, I burst into tears and could not even talk properly.
+
+But then my father came up with a clever, undogmatic tip that would turn everything around...
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+---
+title: Foodsharing Hong Kong - Part Three
+date: 11-05-2018
+headline: The power of media
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Hang-Shuen Lee
+---
+
+*This is part 3/3.*
+
+„You gotta cheat a little bit. Why don't you buy something and put it there?“ A sharp, pragmatic tip from my father.
+
+If only I had come up with this idea earlier! I bought some snacks and arranged them on the shelf, snapped some photos and put them on Facebook. Finally, I could announce that the station exists. To create more content, I contacted similar initiatives to exchange views. The first person I met was Yan, owner of the Facebook page [Empty Plate Action HK](https://www.facebook.com/EmptyPlateActionHK/), which shares information on food waste. Coincidentally, Yan was also a journalist, so we literally interviewed each other. In her opinion, projects like food sharing face difficulties because most Hong Kongers are too caught up their own business. „They only care about the people in their circle. The rest doesn't matter to them. Moreover, most of us just want to be observers.“ An observer – wasn't that exactly what I always used to be?
+
+ *The newspaper article in The Economic Daily*
+
+A few days later, Yan's report was out. Another journalist read it and contacted me for yet another interview. The second story was published on a renowned newspaper site and spread quickly online. People started to notice the project; they gave likes and shared the page. Notifications flooded my Facebook, which caused my mobile to beep all day long. At the peak of exposure, the page received more than 200 likes a day. This is the first time I truly experienced the power of media and its snowballing mechanism.
+
+As the initiative got more popular, the number of physical visitors increased as well. Many of them were office workers, some were housewives. Popular food items were chocolates, candies, oatmeals, drinks and spices. Some would travel a long distance to give away their food. A tearoom customer even offered to share tea regularly. As a tea lover, she simply had too many different kinds of tea that she would never be able to finish by herself. Seeing the station regularly in use was the reward I had longed for so much over the frustrating weeks before. Now I came in touch with so many activists, social workers and active individuals who I'd never have gotten the opportunity to get to know without this project. Every single conversation with them was inspiring.
+
+ *The foodsharing Hong Kong facebook page as of May 2, 2018*
+
+In mid-June, I tried to expand the project. My brother suggested a vegetarian restaurant, which to a certain extent functions like a public space. Similar to Charlie, the restaurant owner, Bong, also agreed very quickly. “There are things that we should care about other than numbers (money). Not everything is about sales,” he said in an interview. “There are resources that one does not see as noteworthy, but others might actually want them. Through this platform, these resources can have their value back again.”
+
+But of course there are also disappointing perspectives and bitter stories to my food sharing success. Although the number of visitors increased and people came to know about us, it is unclear how many people truly understood the idea of food sharing. Some participants saw themselves as “donors” and treated the station as a food bank. They bought extra food to “donate”. Many people would not come to the station to just take food, because it probably still felt too embarrassing. Some treated the station as just another trash can (this may sound rude, but it's actually accurate) and threw in whatever food – supplements, opened bottles, mysterious food without any labeling – that they did not want any more. Very often I had to throw away food. This made me feel guilty even though I didn't do anything wrong. If only people would understand that sharing means everybody has equal chances to give and take away resources; if only they would savvy that the ultimate aim is to minimize unnecessary domestic food waste; if only they would understand that sharing means only giving away something you yourself would still want to use or eat… then situations like the above would not have happened.
+
+While I am still very convinced of the idea of a sharing platform, I also see the risk that it might accidentally even *encourage* consumption and waste: Individuals and companies will know there is always a place for them to dump food. They will not have to give any thought about buying or producing something. „Sometimes companies will send us cartons full of products, just because they misspelled a word on the package,“ said Mr. Fung, an active volunteer at a community center. „We should not encourage these wasteful practices, but we can't simply let them throw away the food. Without any doubt, the ultimate solution to food waste is to eliminate unnecessary consumption, not a sharing platform."
+
+Shortly before I returned to Germany, many people asked about the future of this social experiment. I decided to continue to organize it from overseas, since the concept of the food sharing stations are that one should be able to operate them with minimum human and financial resources. My brother agreed to help whenever a physical presentation should become necessary.
+
+ *Always accessible*
+
+The third station opened a while after my return. The boss of an alternative shop contacted me. He replaced the glass window of the shop with a fridge, making the station accessible 24/7. Because of its accessibility, it was always in use. Just weeks ago, another incident happened which I had feared all the time. It has left me wondering whether this model is really suitable for my city.
+
+Around 70 boxes of snacks were delivered to the station. It was such a huge amount, that it could only be left in front of the shop. Surprisingly, all boxes were gone by the next day. Witnesses said that a group of old ladies and South-east Asian looking men had taken them all away. This was extremely egoistic, because the chance to also benefit from these resources was taken away for all other people. Again, it makes me wonder if people truly understand the idea of food sharing. It is possible to run such an idealistic project in places like Hong Kong, but it takes a longer time to be understood by its citizens. Incidents like the above are in a way, an education to all of us.
+
+All of these experiences, all of these reflections would not have been possible if I had not taken that little step. If all of us just started doing something, without thinking or worrying too much, how would this world look like?
+
+ *Functional food share points in active use!*
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+---
+title: Foodsharing Hong Kong - Part Three
+date: 11-05-2018
+headline: The power of media
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Hang-Shuen Lee
+---
+
+*This is part 3/3.*
+
+„You gotta cheat a little bit. Why don't you buy something and put it there?“ A sharp, pragmatic tip from my father.
+
+If only I had come up with this idea earlier! I bought some snacks and arranged them on the shelf, snapped some photos and put them on Facebook. Finally, I could announce that the station exists. To create more content, I contacted similar initiatives to exchange views. The first person I met was Yan, owner of the Facebook page [Empty Plate Action HK](https://www.facebook.com/EmptyPlateActionHK/), which shares information on food waste. Coincidentally, Yan was also a journalist, so we literally interviewed each other. In her opinion, projects like food sharing face difficulties because most Hong Kongers are too caught up their own business. „They only care about the people in their circle. The rest doesn't matter to them. Moreover, most of us just want to be observers.“ An observer – wasn't that exactly what I always used to be?
+
+ *The newspaper article in The Economic Daily*
+
+A few days later, Yan's report was out. Another journalist read it and contacted me for yet another interview. The second story was published on a renowned newspaper site and spread quickly online. People started to notice the project; they gave likes and shared the page. Notifications flooded my Facebook, which caused my mobile to beep all day long. At the peak of exposure, the page received more than 200 likes a day. This is the first time I truly experienced the power of media and its snowballing mechanism.
+
+As the initiative got more popular, the number of physical visitors increased as well. Many of them were office workers, some were housewives. Popular food items were chocolates, candies, oatmeals, drinks and spices. Some would travel a long distance to give away their food. A tearoom customer even offered to share tea regularly. As a tea lover, she simply had too many different kinds of tea that she would never be able to finish by herself. Seeing the station regularly in use was the reward I had longed for so much over the frustrating weeks before. Now I came in touch with so many activists, social workers and active individuals who I'd never have gotten the opportunity to get to know without this project. Every single conversation with them was inspiring.
+
+ *The foodsharing Hong Kong facebook page as of May 2, 2018*
+
+In mid-June, I tried to expand the project. My brother suggested a vegetarian restaurant, which to a certain extent functions like a public space. Similar to Charlie, the restaurant owner, Bong, also agreed very quickly. “There are things that we should care about other than numbers (money). Not everything is about sales,” he said in an interview. “There are resources that one does not see as noteworthy, but others might actually want them. Through this platform, these resources can have their value back again.”
+
+But of course there are also disappointing perspectives and bitter stories to my food sharing success. Although the number of visitors increased and people came to know about us, it is unclear how many people truly understood the idea of food sharing. Some participants saw themselves as “donors” and treated the station as a food bank. They bought extra food to “donate”. Many people would not come to the station to just take food, because it probably still felt too embarrassing. Some treated the station as just another trash can (this may sound rude, but it's actually accurate) and threw in whatever food – supplements, opened bottles, mysterious food without any labeling – that they did not want any more. Very often I had to throw away food. This made me feel guilty even though I didn't do anything wrong. If only people would understand that sharing means everybody has equal chances to give and take away resources; if only they would savvy that the ultimate aim is to minimize unnecessary domestic food waste; if only they would understand that sharing means only giving away something you yourself would still want to use or eat… then situations like the above would not have happened.
+
+While I am still very convinced of the idea of a sharing platform, I also see the risk that it might accidentally even *encourage* consumption and waste: Individuals and companies will know there is always a place for them to dump food. They will not have to give any thought about buying or producing something. „Sometimes companies will send us cartons full of products, just because they misspelled a word on the package,“ said Mr. Fung, an active volunteer at a community center. „We should not encourage these wasteful practices, but we can't simply let them throw away the food. Without any doubt, the ultimate solution to food waste is to eliminate unnecessary consumption, not a sharing platform."
+
+Shortly before I returned to Germany, many people asked about the future of this social experiment. I decided to continue to organize it from overseas, since the concept of the food sharing stations are that one should be able to operate them with minimum human and financial resources. My brother agreed to help whenever a physical presentation should become necessary.
+
+ *Always accessible*
+
+The third station opened a while after my return. The boss of an alternative shop contacted me. He replaced the glass window of the shop with a fridge, making the station accessible 24/7. Because of its accessibility, it was always in use. Just weeks ago, another incident happened which I had feared all the time. It has left me wondering whether this model is really suitable for my city.
+
+Around 70 boxes of snacks were delivered to the station. It was such a huge amount, that it could only be left in front of the shop. Surprisingly, all boxes were gone by the next day. Witnesses said that a group of old ladies and South-east Asian looking men had taken them all away. This was extremely egoistic, because the chance to also benefit from these resources was taken away for all other people. Again, it makes me wonder if people truly understand the idea of food sharing. It is possible to run such an idealistic project in places like Hong Kong, but it takes a longer time to be understood by its citizens. Incidents like the above are in a way, an education to all of us.
+
+All of these experiences, all of these reflections would not have been possible if I had not taken that little step. If all of us just started doing something, without thinking or worrying too much, how would this world look like?
+
+ *Functional food share points in active use!*
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+title: Foodsharing Moscow - Part One
+date: 15-05-2018
+headline: How foodsharing started in Russia
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Anna Uspenskaya
+---
+
+*Part 1/5*
+
+Hello everybody, I am Anna Uspenskaya, founder of the [Foodsharing Moscow project](https://foodsharing.ru). I’m going to tell you how Russians can get involved in saving and sharing food.
+
+## The Idea and First Steps
+
+I learned about German Foodsharing in the winter of 2015 from the blog of Jana Frank, an illustrator and writer of Soviet Union origin living in Berlin and writing her blog in Russian. She often told her followers about her experiences as a foodsaver in Berlin.
+
+I knew almost nothing about ecology and environmental concerns at that time. I had barely heard of the harmfulness of food waste. But it sounded really fantastic for me that people could get for free such amounts of high quality food and that all of this food might have been thrown away otherwise. In my family we had never any food leftovers thrown away. I have never been starving, but when I was a student in the late 2000s it was sometimes difficult for me to earn a living to survive, and not end up being expelled from university for truancy. I had no extra money with which to go to the university cafeteria every day so I cooked my lunch at home and brought it to university with me. On my vacation trips I tried not to spend money if at all possible.
+
+ *Collecting leftovers in the canteen of the Moscow State University Summer Camp, 2009. I was against food waste from the age of 19.*
+
+By 2015 I had graduated, had a fulltime job and was looking for volunteering opportunities to help other people. I got involved in some volunteer trips to an orphanage and donated, from time to time, to some charitable foundations. I knew that lots of people were living under conditions of extreme poverty. At the same time, however, Moscow is quite a rich city. There are a lot of cafes, bakeries and restaurants here.
+
+  *Trendy cafes in Moscow*
+
+So I decided to undertake some research. I visited cafes and small bakeries and asked the employers if they ever had any leftovers at the end of the working day. Of course they had. But when I asked if they would be able to give them to myself or someone else who would be able to come by at closing time to pick it up, the employers looked troubled. The most common answer was: "I'll pass on your request to the boss but I don't promise anything." I realized that my request may have sounded really strange to them. I had to work out a plan and come back to them with a better proposal.
+
+I created foodsharing groups and pages in the most popular social networks; posted all of the relevant information that I could find in Russian and English about Foodsharing projects in Germany; and wrote about my desire to set up something similar. I also got in touch with foodsaving activists from Moscow and Saint-Petersburg. One day a Russian girl, living in Germany and coming to Moscow from time to time, wrote to me. She was doing foodsharing in Germany and she helped us a lot. She coordinated a group of volunteers who had a working knowledge of German and they translated the most essential articles from the [Foodsharing Wiki](https://wiki.foodsharing.de/Hauptseite). When the translation was completed and I was able to read it it became much clearer to me how it all worked. But we definitely had to rewrite the rules in order to make it clearer for Russians, and to come up with an alternative tool for coordinating as soon as possible as we didn’t have the foodsharing.de platform. First of all we created an open Google Map and invited all potential foodsavers to check in there and let us know where they lived. Working out where everyone interested lived was important because Moscow is a very big city and we wanted as many people as possible to be able to work together.
+
+Shortly afterwards we undertook our very first foodsaving expedition. A snack manufacturer had some unsold products and didn’t want to throw them away into the garbage. Whilst looking for an alternative option he found our group through social media and wrote to us.
+
+  *One of our first pick-ups*
+
+As we began to gain experience of working and cooperating together we made it a priority to clarify and formalize the rules for foodsavers. In March 2016 we gave a first public lecture about foodsharing in Moscow. We did a screening of [Valentin Thurn’s short movie “Waste”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaouOWx3Bmo) and provided an explanation about Foodsharing in Germany and how it could serve as a model and inspiration for us as we continued to develop our project and our plans.
+
+We created and printed flyers and began to introduce ourselves to cafes and small bakeries in the center of the city and discuss with them the possibility of collecting unsold food that would otherwise go to waste. During our first months we attracted more partners. As we started to gain experience we also realized the need to redesign some parts of our project.
+
+We created a management system using several popular free software tools: - Vkontakte chats for teams’ communication (Vkontakte is a Russian social network; the group chats there are very fast and easy to use) - Google Forms for a quiz (people who wanted to join are required to pass a quiz which evaluates if they have read the rules and understood what foodsharing is all about); - Google Sheets for schedules and weight reports; - Google Fusion Tables for foodsavers’ database management with map representation;
+
+ *Example of our schedule in Google Sheets*
+
+Foodsharing began to work well, and we were really delighted about the way that things had developed. The community in Saint-Petersburg was growing at roughly the same rate as our one in Moscow, and they were also successful in getting some of the bakeries, stores and cafes to cooperate.
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+title: Foodsharing Moscow - Part One
+date: 15-05-2018
+headline: How foodsharing started in Russia
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Anna Uspenskaya
+---
+
+*Part 1/5*
+
+Hello everybody, I am Anna Uspenskaya, founder of the [Foodsharing Moscow project](https://foodsharing.ru). I’m going to tell you how Russians can get involved in saving and sharing food.
+
+## The Idea and First Steps
+
+I learned about German Foodsharing in the winter of 2015 from the blog of Jana Frank, an illustrator and writer of Soviet Union origin living in Berlin and writing her blog in Russian. She often told her followers about her experiences as a foodsaver in Berlin.
+
+I knew almost nothing about ecology and environmental concerns at that time. I had barely heard of the harmfulness of food waste. But it sounded really fantastic for me that people could get for free such amounts of high quality food and that all of this food might have been thrown away otherwise. In my family we had never any food leftovers thrown away. I have never been starving, but when I was a student in the late 2000s it was sometimes difficult for me to earn a living to survive, and not end up being expelled from university for truancy. I had no extra money with which to go to the university cafeteria every day so I cooked my lunch at home and brought it to university with me. On my vacation trips I tried not to spend money if at all possible.
+
+ *Collecting leftovers in the canteen of the Moscow State University Summer Camp, 2009. I was against food waste from the age of 19.*
+
+By 2015 I had graduated, had a fulltime job and was looking for volunteering opportunities to help other people. I got involved in some volunteer trips to an orphanage and donated, from time to time, to some charitable foundations. I knew that lots of people were living under conditions of extreme poverty. At the same time, however, Moscow is quite a rich city. There are a lot of cafes, bakeries and restaurants here.
+
+  *Trendy cafes in Moscow*
+
+So I decided to undertake some research. I visited cafes and small bakeries and asked the employers if they ever had any leftovers at the end of the working day. Of course they had. But when I asked if they would be able to give them to myself or someone else who would be able to come by at closing time to pick it up, the employers looked troubled. The most common answer was: "I'll pass on your request to the boss but I don't promise anything." I realized that my request may have sounded really strange to them. I had to work out a plan and come back to them with a better proposal.
+
+I created foodsharing groups and pages in the most popular social networks; posted all of the relevant information that I could find in Russian and English about Foodsharing projects in Germany; and wrote about my desire to set up something similar. I also got in touch with foodsaving activists from Moscow and Saint-Petersburg. One day a Russian girl, living in Germany and coming to Moscow from time to time, wrote to me. She was doing foodsharing in Germany and she helped us a lot. She coordinated a group of volunteers who had a working knowledge of German and they translated the most essential articles from the [Foodsharing Wiki](https://wiki.foodsharing.de/Hauptseite). When the translation was completed and I was able to read it it became much clearer to me how it all worked. But we definitely had to rewrite the rules in order to make it clearer for Russians, and to come up with an alternative tool for coordinating as soon as possible as we didn’t have the foodsharing.de platform. First of all we created an open Google Map and invited all potential foodsavers to check in there and let us know where they lived. Working out where everyone interested lived was important because Moscow is a very big city and we wanted as many people as possible to be able to work together.
+
+Shortly afterwards we undertook our very first foodsaving expedition. A snack manufacturer had some unsold products and didn’t want to throw them away into the garbage. Whilst looking for an alternative option he found our group through social media and wrote to us.
+
+  *One of our first pick-ups*
+
+As we began to gain experience of working and cooperating together we made it a priority to clarify and formalize the rules for foodsavers. In March 2016 we gave a first public lecture about foodsharing in Moscow. We did a screening of [Valentin Thurn’s short movie “Waste”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaouOWx3Bmo) and provided an explanation about Foodsharing in Germany and how it could serve as a model and inspiration for us as we continued to develop our project and our plans.
+
+We created and printed flyers and began to introduce ourselves to cafes and small bakeries in the center of the city and discuss with them the possibility of collecting unsold food that would otherwise go to waste. During our first months we attracted more partners. As we started to gain experience we also realized the need to redesign some parts of our project.
+
+We created a management system using several popular free software tools: - Vkontakte chats for teams’ communication (Vkontakte is a Russian social network; the group chats there are very fast and easy to use) - Google Forms for a quiz (people who wanted to join are required to pass a quiz which evaluates if they have read the rules and understood what foodsharing is all about); - Google Sheets for schedules and weight reports; - Google Fusion Tables for foodsavers’ database management with map representation;
+
+ *Example of our schedule in Google Sheets*
+
+Foodsharing began to work well, and we were really delighted about the way that things had developed. The community in Saint-Petersburg was growing at roughly the same rate as our one in Moscow, and they were also successful in getting some of the bakeries, stores and cafes to cooperate.
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+---
+title: Foodsharing Moscow - Part Two
+date: 17-05-2018
+headline: Tools and Technology
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Anna Uspenskaya
+---
+
+*Part 2/5*
+
+# Foodsharing taking off
+
+The more stores we had working in cooperation, the more difficult it was for us to carry out the management, schedule supervision and leftovers’ weight control. So we decided to work on automating certain processes.
+
+We developed tools for managing the data: - А tool which summarizes and monitors weight statistics - for each partner separately, monthly for all partners, and the overall amount - А tool which measures logistics - travel time between every new store and every foodsaver, worked out automatically from a database. We are now able to run database queries like “select top-N nearest foodsavers for a new store with a given address”. This makes it far easier to create new teams of volunteers living nearby - Other filters within the database to view selected records. For example we can view all foodsavers who have a car when we need to pick up large amounts of food
+
+Now, when a new partner appears, the required number of foodsavers living nearby get notifications via e-mail and can be part of a team picking it up if the conditions are convenient for them to do so.
+
+It may look to some people as we are over-complicating things through our use of sophisticated software. Sometimes people ask us why can’t just post information about new cooperating stores online so that people would be able to quickly find a team to join. The answer to this question is simple - there have always been many more people interested in volunteering than the availability of free positions in foodsaving teams. Most of these people were willing to travel to foodsharing points anywhere across the city even if it took them two hours to get there! So if we were to post something like “foodsavers wanted for a team to collect food from a new cafe” within a few minutes there would be more than enough volunteers and we would have to have a selection process. We don’t want foodsharing to become a competition of “write a comment as fast as you can and get some food for free”. We want it to be a truly effective and environment-friendly project and don’t want people to transport food across the city for hours and waste both time and resources.
+
+ *The green points represent foodsavers and the yellow points cooperating stores*
+
+I know that German foodsavers have separate groups for each district. Our friends from Saint-Petersburg do the same. We were actively considering this way and made some experiments in trying it out but found that it doesn’t work for Moscow. The best way to organize a foodsaving community depends upon multiple factors including city size, planning, and administrative-territorial division.
+
+ *Berlin: 12 districts*
+
+ *Saint-Petersburg:18 districts*
+
+Berlin and Saint-Petersburg are much more alike in layout than Berlin and Moscow. In Moscow, the districts are too large, and the subdistricts are too small, to build efficient and effective foodsaving teams using these boundary divisions.
+
+ *Moscow with its 9 districts and 125 subdistricts*
+
+The tool that we use is based on Google Maps Directions and allows us to be flexible. It allows us to invite only as many foodsavers as we need and thereby allows us to avoid creating disappointment. It also allows us to ensure that the foodsavers’ route to the pick-up point is as short as possible.
+
+We now have about 1000 registered foodsavers, although fewer than half of them are actively involved in fetching food from our partners. Sometimes those who have never received any invitations to be part of a team become frustrated. In such circumstances we have to explain to them that some distant subdistricts don’t have yet any partners in cooperation, and propose other options that they could explore such as talking to cafes and stores nearby or other activities that they could become engaged in depending upon the volunteer’s skills. If a registered volunteer helps us we always try to give him or her options when free positions appear.
+
+People from [yunity](https://yunity.org) advice to never use the promise of "free food" as an incentive and, instead, to promote the idea that foodsaving isn't about free food but rather about fighting a wasteful-system of food mismanagement ([“How to build a foodsaving community”](https://yunity.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FSINT/pages/91665893/How+to+build+a+foodsaving+community#Howtobuildafoodsavingcommunity-RaisingAwareness)). I don’t know about how things are in other countries but in our country it’s impossible, now, to genuinely get people to see things in these terms. Obtaining free food is a more powerful motivator than fighting food mismanagement for most people. However, I don’t think we have a critical problem here. There are both advantages and risks to having this high demand for foodsaving opportunities. There certainly are some benefits as we never have problems with getting enough volunteers for food pickups.
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+---
+title: Foodsharing Moscow - Part Two
+date: 17-05-2018
+headline: Tools and Technology
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Anna Uspenskaya
+---
+
+*Part 2/5*
+
+# Foodsharing taking off
+
+The more stores we had working in cooperation, the more difficult it was for us to carry out the management, schedule supervision and leftovers’ weight control. So we decided to work on automating certain processes.
+
+We developed tools for managing the data: - А tool which summarizes and monitors weight statistics - for each partner separately, monthly for all partners, and the overall amount - А tool which measures logistics - travel time between every new store and every foodsaver, worked out automatically from a database. We are now able to run database queries like “select top-N nearest foodsavers for a new store with a given address”. This makes it far easier to create new teams of volunteers living nearby - Other filters within the database to view selected records. For example we can view all foodsavers who have a car when we need to pick up large amounts of food
+
+Now, when a new partner appears, the required number of foodsavers living nearby get notifications via e-mail and can be part of a team picking it up if the conditions are convenient for them to do so.
+
+It may look to some people as we are over-complicating things through our use of sophisticated software. Sometimes people ask us why can’t just post information about new cooperating stores online so that people would be able to quickly find a team to join. The answer to this question is simple - there have always been many more people interested in volunteering than the availability of free positions in foodsaving teams. Most of these people were willing to travel to foodsharing points anywhere across the city even if it took them two hours to get there! So if we were to post something like “foodsavers wanted for a team to collect food from a new cafe” within a few minutes there would be more than enough volunteers and we would have to have a selection process. We don’t want foodsharing to become a competition of “write a comment as fast as you can and get some food for free”. We want it to be a truly effective and environment-friendly project and don’t want people to transport food across the city for hours and waste both time and resources.
+
+ *The green points represent foodsavers and the yellow points cooperating stores*
+
+I know that German foodsavers have separate groups for each district. Our friends from Saint-Petersburg do the same. We were actively considering this way and made some experiments in trying it out but found that it doesn’t work for Moscow. The best way to organize a foodsaving community depends upon multiple factors including city size, planning, and administrative-territorial division.
+
+ *Berlin: 12 districts*
+
+ *Saint-Petersburg:18 districts*
+
+Berlin and Saint-Petersburg are much more alike in layout than Berlin and Moscow. In Moscow, the districts are too large, and the subdistricts are too small, to build efficient and effective foodsaving teams using these boundary divisions.
+
+ *Moscow with its 9 districts and 125 subdistricts*
+
+The tool that we use is based on Google Maps Directions and allows us to be flexible. It allows us to invite only as many foodsavers as we need and thereby allows us to avoid creating disappointment. It also allows us to ensure that the foodsavers’ route to the pick-up point is as short as possible.
+
+We now have about 1000 registered foodsavers, although fewer than half of them are actively involved in fetching food from our partners. Sometimes those who have never received any invitations to be part of a team become frustrated. In such circumstances we have to explain to them that some distant subdistricts don’t have yet any partners in cooperation, and propose other options that they could explore such as talking to cafes and stores nearby or other activities that they could become engaged in depending upon the volunteer’s skills. If a registered volunteer helps us we always try to give him or her options when free positions appear.
+
+People from [yunity](https://yunity.org) advice to never use the promise of "free food" as an incentive and, instead, to promote the idea that foodsaving isn't about free food but rather about fighting a wasteful-system of food mismanagement ([“How to build a foodsaving community”](https://yunity.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FSINT/pages/91665893/How+to+build+a+foodsaving+community#Howtobuildafoodsavingcommunity-RaisingAwareness)). I don’t know about how things are in other countries but in our country it’s impossible, now, to genuinely get people to see things in these terms. Obtaining free food is a more powerful motivator than fighting food mismanagement for most people. However, I don’t think we have a critical problem here. There are both advantages and risks to having this high demand for foodsaving opportunities. There certainly are some benefits as we never have problems with getting enough volunteers for food pickups.
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+---
+title: Foodsharing Moscow - Part Three
+date: 19-05-2018
+headline: The charitable way
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Anna Uspenskaya
+---
+
+*Part 3/5*
+
+# Foodsharing and charity
+
+As has already been pointed out here, the most common motivating factor for being a foodsaver in our case (Russia) is the access that it provides to free food. But the most motivated and conscientious foodsavers are not those who are in need themselves. The best foodsavers are people who like helping other people in need, regardless of their own financial situation. They may be students, working adults who want to help their elderly neighbors, mothers who already have many children but who want to help large poor families, or retirees who want to help each other.
+
+Some foodsavers who were particularly enthusiastic asked us for advice on how to best distribute all of the saved food. They asked, in particular, for contact details of people in need. What is more some of our partners also expressed their wish to give their surplus food to charity. Some of them were extremely insistent upon this point. Comments made by them included:
+
+> I would like to give surplus food to people in need and not to all these hippies who are too lazy to work.
+>
+> No offense, but when a guy about my age without any disabilities says it’s cool not to spend money on food I should better throw this food away than give it to him.
+>
+> — *Marketing director of a young food delivery service*
+
+Environmentalism and concerns about sustainability aren’t, per se, popular. Of course we tried our best to raise awareness, but we have had to accept the reality of the way things really are. Giving most of the food to charity allows us to have more willing partners and to save much more food.
+
+So we decided to add a new rule for foodsavers to share food with people in need. Of course it took time to find contact details of people in need for foodsavers who had no such contacts of their own. We established cooperation with some charitable foundations and they were happy to receive free food for people they are helping.
+
+
+
+ *Large families and old people get food from foodsavers: fruits, vegetables and frozen pelmeni (kind of ravioli with meat)*
+
+We still don’t collect food being offered as a donation as if a business wants to donate some goods to a charity, they don’t need foodsharing. But employees and volunteers from charitable foundations don’t have the time or availability to come every day to the food pick-up locations to pick up leftovers. They need some kind of “facilitator” like foodsharing. Foodsavers are still allowed to retain some food for themselves but charity also gets its part, and there is no wastage.
+
+Making this change to our way of operating was a really important milestone for us. By becoming a charitable project we began to attract much more attention and, as a consequence, got more organizations interested in cooperating with us.
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+---
+title: Foodsharing Moscow - Part Three
+date: 19-05-2018
+headline: The charitable way
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Anna Uspenskaya
+---
+
+*Part 3/5*
+
+# Foodsharing and charity
+
+As has already been pointed out here, the most common motivating factor for being a foodsaver in our case (Russia) is the access that it provides to free food. But the most motivated and conscientious foodsavers are not those who are in need themselves. The best foodsavers are people who like helping other people in need, regardless of their own financial situation. They may be students, working adults who want to help their elderly neighbors, mothers who already have many children but who want to help large poor families, or retirees who want to help each other.
+
+Some foodsavers who were particularly enthusiastic asked us for advice on how to best distribute all of the saved food. They asked, in particular, for contact details of people in need. What is more some of our partners also expressed their wish to give their surplus food to charity. Some of them were extremely insistent upon this point. Comments made by them included:
+
+> I would like to give surplus food to people in need and not to all these hippies who are too lazy to work.
+>
+> No offense, but when a guy about my age without any disabilities says it’s cool not to spend money on food I should better throw this food away than give it to him.
+>
+> — *Marketing director of a young food delivery service*
+
+Environmentalism and concerns about sustainability aren’t, per se, popular. Of course we tried our best to raise awareness, but we have had to accept the reality of the way things really are. Giving most of the food to charity allows us to have more willing partners and to save much more food.
+
+So we decided to add a new rule for foodsavers to share food with people in need. Of course it took time to find contact details of people in need for foodsavers who had no such contacts of their own. We established cooperation with some charitable foundations and they were happy to receive free food for people they are helping.
+
+
+
+ *Large families and old people get food from foodsavers: fruits, vegetables and frozen pelmeni (kind of ravioli with meat)*
+
+We still don’t collect food being offered as a donation as if a business wants to donate some goods to a charity, they don’t need foodsharing. But employees and volunteers from charitable foundations don’t have the time or availability to come every day to the food pick-up locations to pick up leftovers. They need some kind of “facilitator” like foodsharing. Foodsavers are still allowed to retain some food for themselves but charity also gets its part, and there is no wastage.
+
+Making this change to our way of operating was a really important milestone for us. By becoming a charitable project we began to attract much more attention and, as a consequence, got more organizations interested in cooperating with us.
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+---
+title: Foodsharing Moscow - Part Four
+date: 21-05-2018
+headline: How things are now
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Anna Uspenskaya
+---
+
+*Part 4/5*
+
+# Environmentalism and Sustainability
+
+We don’t allow ourselves to forget that foodsharing is an undertaking motivated by environmental concerns. Festivals and conferences on ecology and environmental protection often invite us to present lectures. We speak about the situation with regards to food waste in Russia; foodsharing in Germany which was a model and inspiration for us; and about our plans for future. We have participated in some activities organised in cooperation with Greenpeace Russia. In December 2017 we received the GEO Eco Awards in the category "Best Environmental Initiative of the Year”.
+
+
+
+ *Myself (first from right) and other recipients at the GEO Eco Awards ceremony*
+
+### Team
+
+When we started in 2015 there were only two of us - myself and Andrew Kuhnin. Anna Korneva, a german foodsaver, joined us January 2016 and helped us a lot by informing us more about foodsharing in Germany, and translating information about foodsaving in Germany into Russian for us.
+
+ *Anna Korneva, Andrew Kuhnin, Anna Uspenskaya - March 2016*
+
+Two months later Anna Korneva went back to Berlin. In the summer of 2016 Irina Mezhova joined. Irina was managing our volunteer database (validating and adding new foodsavers) and coordinating with some of the stores. Mikhail Shcheglov, a software developer, has been involved in developing our web-site and tools for coordinating since December 2016. From January 2017 onwards Irina and Andrew both, regrettably, had no more free time for being involved in foodsharing. Konstantin Ponomarev, one of our coordinators, took over the responsibility of validating and adding new foodsavers to the database and become a co-organizer. As for me, I am involved in negotiations with new partners, mailings for building new teams, collecting information on people in need and ensuring that all of the other processes of foodsaving run well, as well as taking charge of Public Relations and Education like presenting information about foodsharing at conferences and posting news updates on social networks.
+
+All of us have jobs in addition to our work for foodsharing. During the first two years from summer 2015 until autumn 2017 I had a full-time office job. Scheduling negotiations and other events was very difficult because I was only free in the evenings or on weekends. Since autumn 2017 I have been able to work remotely. My working hours are now flexible and I am able to balance my paid-work responsibilities with my responsibilities for foodsaving much better.
+
+### Our Legal Status
+
+Foodsharing Moscow is a completely non-profit project and does not collect donations. The project has no legal status. I would like Foodsharing Moscow to be a registered association but this kind of activity is not authorized in our country. Even if we register, we will not be able to sign contracts with our partners. If a non-profit has not any contracts or official reports it gets closed. So we are collecting lawyers’ opinions and looking for the best way to move forwards. Our goal is to involve as many organizations as possible in cooperation with foodsaving. We want large corporations to stop throwing food away and, instead, to give it to the needy through charity, foodbanks or foodsharing. In Russia there are legislative restrictions that obstruct the donation of unsold products. We need legislative amendments in order to stimulate food donation and laws against food waste. We are working on this as we can.
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+---
+title: Foodsharing Moscow - Part Four
+date: 21-05-2018
+headline: How things are now
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Anna Uspenskaya
+---
+
+*Part 4/5*
+
+# Environmentalism and Sustainability
+
+We don’t allow ourselves to forget that foodsharing is an undertaking motivated by environmental concerns. Festivals and conferences on ecology and environmental protection often invite us to present lectures. We speak about the situation with regards to food waste in Russia; foodsharing in Germany which was a model and inspiration for us; and about our plans for future. We have participated in some activities organised in cooperation with Greenpeace Russia. In December 2017 we received the GEO Eco Awards in the category "Best Environmental Initiative of the Year”.
+
+
+
+ *Myself (first from right) and other recipients at the GEO Eco Awards ceremony*
+
+### Team
+
+When we started in 2015 there were only two of us - myself and Andrew Kuhnin. Anna Korneva, a german foodsaver, joined us January 2016 and helped us a lot by informing us more about foodsharing in Germany, and translating information about foodsaving in Germany into Russian for us.
+
+ *Anna Korneva, Andrew Kuhnin, Anna Uspenskaya - March 2016*
+
+Two months later Anna Korneva went back to Berlin. In the summer of 2016 Irina Mezhova joined. Irina was managing our volunteer database (validating and adding new foodsavers) and coordinating with some of the stores. Mikhail Shcheglov, a software developer, has been involved in developing our web-site and tools for coordinating since December 2016. From January 2017 onwards Irina and Andrew both, regrettably, had no more free time for being involved in foodsharing. Konstantin Ponomarev, one of our coordinators, took over the responsibility of validating and adding new foodsavers to the database and become a co-organizer. As for me, I am involved in negotiations with new partners, mailings for building new teams, collecting information on people in need and ensuring that all of the other processes of foodsaving run well, as well as taking charge of Public Relations and Education like presenting information about foodsharing at conferences and posting news updates on social networks.
+
+All of us have jobs in addition to our work for foodsharing. During the first two years from summer 2015 until autumn 2017 I had a full-time office job. Scheduling negotiations and other events was very difficult because I was only free in the evenings or on weekends. Since autumn 2017 I have been able to work remotely. My working hours are now flexible and I am able to balance my paid-work responsibilities with my responsibilities for foodsaving much better.
+
+### Our Legal Status
+
+Foodsharing Moscow is a completely non-profit project and does not collect donations. The project has no legal status. I would like Foodsharing Moscow to be a registered association but this kind of activity is not authorized in our country. Even if we register, we will not be able to sign contracts with our partners. If a non-profit has not any contracts or official reports it gets closed. So we are collecting lawyers’ opinions and looking for the best way to move forwards. Our goal is to involve as many organizations as possible in cooperation with foodsaving. We want large corporations to stop throwing food away and, instead, to give it to the needy through charity, foodbanks or foodsharing. In Russia there are legislative restrictions that obstruct the donation of unsold products. We need legislative amendments in order to stimulate food donation and laws against food waste. We are working on this as we can.
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+---
+title: Foodsharing Moscow - Part Five
+date: 25-05-2018
+headline: Similar Initiatives and the future of foodsharing Russia
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Anna Uspenskaya
+---
+
+*Part 5/5*
+
+# Other Organisations, Initiatives and Events Involved in Saving and Sharing Food in Russia
+
+### FAO UN
+
+We met the head of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Eugenia Serova, in her office in Moscow. We discussed problems of food loss and hunger and agreed to cooperate on raising awareness about food waste. We plan to participate in conferences organized by the FAO UN in Russia.
+
+### [Open School of Sustainable Development](http://www.openshkola.org/open-school-of-sustainable-development/)
+
+This is an initiative to promote the ideas of sustainable development by providing information to the Russian-speaking population through online education. They do monthly free webinars dedicated to the [17 SDGs](https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/) - a set of goals adopted by UN to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all.
+I presented a webinar dedicated to goal 2 “Zero hunger” and 12 “Responsible consumption and production”.
+
+### [Food Bank Rus](http://foodbankrus.ru/en)
+
+The first and only foodbank in Russia was established in 2012 and is a member of [Global Foodbanking Network](https://www.foodbanking.org/what-we-do/our-global-reach/).
+
+
+
+ *The elderly living in countryside poverty get help from Food Bank Rus*
+
+We are in touch with them and have some cooperation.
+
+### Foodsharing in social networks (“I Give Away Food for Free”)
+
+There are some groups and pages in social network Vkontakte named [Foodsharing: I Give Away Food for Free](https://vk.com/sharingfood) ([also this one](https://vk.com/food_sharing) and some others). Their foodsharing system works like this - if someone wants to give away some food he or she does not need, they post in this VKontakte community. Whoever is the first to post an "I'll take it" comment gets it. There are no social or distance preferences, all that matters is speed of posting a comment. Some of these communities have cooperations with stores, but they have no rules or any sort of quiz for foodsavers. The organizers post something like “A pick-up today, address, time” and whoever is the first to comment is permitted to come and save food. Some of these groups don’t allow meat, fish and seafood to be saved or shared.
+
+### Fair-Share Points (“Public Fridge”)
+
+In 2016 the organizers of “I Give Away Food for Free” community in Saint-Petersburg sought to set up a Public Fridge on the front porch of a charity shop as an offline representation of the foodsharing idea. The day after opening it was closed by Rospotrebnadzor (The Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being). The organizers had to pay a fine. Fair-Share Points give a great base for sharing food but the European model did not catch on here.
+
+# Promotion, Motivation and Plans for the Future
+
+We don’t do our own public activities. I wish we had some cool events like Disco Soup, but I have no time to organize it. Besides, we don’t need to draw people’s attention to the saved food and to prove that it's edible. Russian people are rather conscious about food waste. Food loss in Russian households is only about 13% according to Rosstat (Russian Federal State Statistics Service).
+
+We need global changes like the new [law of 2015 in France](https://ec.europa.eu/food/sites/food/files/safety/docs/fw_eu-platform_20170331_pres-10.pdf) and [Italy](https://foodlawlatest.com/2016/11/26/the-italian-law-against-food-waste/) stimulating food donation for supermarkets, and the [Good Samaritan Food Donation Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Emerson_Good_Samaritan_Act_of_1996) in USA. Maybe one day we will have an opportunity to propose such amendments to our laws.
+
+We need to draw public and government attention to both the food loss in production and retail as well as the plight of retirees, the disabled, single-parents, poor families living below the poverty line, and the malnourished or starving. We also have to be careful in order to not be closed down. We are operating in a very gray area between what would be considered licit and illicit activity. We seek dialogue with the government rather than confrontation even if it means taking a small step backward (for example to exclude expired food). Only being entirely legitimate will allow us to go forward.
+
+My first motivation was to create a project like German Foodsharing because it’s cool. I wish such a project existed in Moscow when I was a student. However, now, everyday, I receive about a dozen messages from charity foundations and common people asking for food. They are all calling for our help and so this has become the strongest motivation for me to seek out more organizations with who we can cooperate.
+
+Last but not least comes the environmental reason and motivation for this activity. I consider myself to be a part of an ecological movement which promotes separate collection of waste types and recycling. Currently there are big problems with waste and recycling in our country. Foodsharing, in a sense, already offers a way of having a separate collection of food waste and recycling it by giving away unsold food for free.
+
+I hope foodsharing will continue to develop in Russia. I am seeking to bring together all social institutions including business, charity, government and internet-based self-organizing communities in order to reduce waste, eliminate hunger and help us all to move towards a sustainable world.
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+---
+title: Foodsharing Moscow - Part Five
+date: 25-05-2018
+headline: Similar Initiatives and the future of foodsharing Russia
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Anna Uspenskaya
+---
+
+*Part 5/5*
+
+# Other Organisations, Initiatives and Events Involved in Saving and Sharing Food in Russia
+
+### FAO UN
+
+We met the head of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Eugenia Serova, in her office in Moscow. We discussed problems of food loss and hunger and agreed to cooperate on raising awareness about food waste. We plan to participate in conferences organized by the FAO UN in Russia.
+
+### [Open School of Sustainable Development](http://www.openshkola.org/open-school-of-sustainable-development/)
+
+This is an initiative to promote the ideas of sustainable development by providing information to the Russian-speaking population through online education. They do monthly free webinars dedicated to the [17 SDGs](https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/) - a set of goals adopted by UN to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all.
+I presented a webinar dedicated to goal 2 “Zero hunger” and 12 “Responsible consumption and production”.
+
+### [Food Bank Rus](http://foodbankrus.ru/en)
+
+The first and only foodbank in Russia was established in 2012 and is a member of [Global Foodbanking Network](https://www.foodbanking.org/what-we-do/our-global-reach/).
+
+
+
+ *The elderly living in countryside poverty get help from Food Bank Rus*
+
+We are in touch with them and have some cooperation.
+
+### Foodsharing in social networks (“I Give Away Food for Free”)
+
+There are some groups and pages in social network Vkontakte named [Foodsharing: I Give Away Food for Free](https://vk.com/sharingfood) ([also this one](https://vk.com/food_sharing) and some others). Their foodsharing system works like this - if someone wants to give away some food he or she does not need, they post in this VKontakte community. Whoever is the first to post an "I'll take it" comment gets it. There are no social or distance preferences, all that matters is speed of posting a comment. Some of these communities have cooperations with stores, but they have no rules or any sort of quiz for foodsavers. The organizers post something like “A pick-up today, address, time” and whoever is the first to comment is permitted to come and save food. Some of these groups don’t allow meat, fish and seafood to be saved or shared.
+
+### Fair-Share Points (“Public Fridge”)
+
+In 2016 the organizers of “I Give Away Food for Free” community in Saint-Petersburg sought to set up a Public Fridge on the front porch of a charity shop as an offline representation of the foodsharing idea. The day after opening it was closed by Rospotrebnadzor (The Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being). The organizers had to pay a fine. Fair-Share Points give a great base for sharing food but the European model did not catch on here.
+
+# Promotion, Motivation and Plans for the Future
+
+We don’t do our own public activities. I wish we had some cool events like Disco Soup, but I have no time to organize it. Besides, we don’t need to draw people’s attention to the saved food and to prove that it's edible. Russian people are rather conscious about food waste. Food loss in Russian households is only about 13% according to Rosstat (Russian Federal State Statistics Service).
+
+We need global changes like the new [law of 2015 in France](https://ec.europa.eu/food/sites/food/files/safety/docs/fw_eu-platform_20170331_pres-10.pdf) and [Italy](https://foodlawlatest.com/2016/11/26/the-italian-law-against-food-waste/) stimulating food donation for supermarkets, and the [Good Samaritan Food Donation Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Emerson_Good_Samaritan_Act_of_1996) in USA. Maybe one day we will have an opportunity to propose such amendments to our laws.
+
+We need to draw public and government attention to both the food loss in production and retail as well as the plight of retirees, the disabled, single-parents, poor families living below the poverty line, and the malnourished or starving. We also have to be careful in order to not be closed down. We are operating in a very gray area between what would be considered licit and illicit activity. We seek dialogue with the government rather than confrontation even if it means taking a small step backward (for example to exclude expired food). Only being entirely legitimate will allow us to go forward.
+
+My first motivation was to create a project like German Foodsharing because it’s cool. I wish such a project existed in Moscow when I was a student. However, now, everyday, I receive about a dozen messages from charity foundations and common people asking for food. They are all calling for our help and so this has become the strongest motivation for me to seek out more organizations with who we can cooperate.
+
+Last but not least comes the environmental reason and motivation for this activity. I consider myself to be a part of an ecological movement which promotes separate collection of waste types and recycling. Currently there are big problems with waste and recycling in our country. Foodsharing, in a sense, already offers a way of having a separate collection of food waste and recycling it by giving away unsold food for free.
+
+I hope foodsharing will continue to develop in Russia. I am seeking to bring together all social institutions including business, charity, government and internet-based self-organizing communities in order to reduce waste, eliminate hunger and help us all to move towards a sustainable world.
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+---
+title: Organize outside Facebook
+date: 24-07-2018
+headline: The Why and the How
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Bruno
+---
+
+## The Why and the How
+
+If you’re getting started with your foodsaving group or if you established one already, the most natural option is/was a Facebook group or page. Facebook is possibly the online platform where you can reach out to the greatest number of people living in your region who might care about food waste, so I won’t deny its power in regards to outreach and campaigning.
+
+In fact, I actually take quite a pragmatist approach in my own foodsaving community by continuing to use it strategically, so we haven’t ditched it completely. But only using it for PR and campaigning is actually one reason we are success at organizing ourselves.
+
+This text will not only be about why Facebooks sucks on many different levels, I will also present a number of alternatives and share my own experience as a community organizer who is particularly interested in the potential of free, open-source and more ethical choices of digital tools.
+
+## Why?
+
+There are basically two reasons why you should not rely on Facebook to organize your foodsaving community, or any kind of grassroots community/organization for that matter. One is ethical and the other is practical. I’m not gonna go on about the ethical reasons, for there are plenty of well-document material and articles out there on Facebook’s shady business. I guess you’ve heard about the latest [scandal](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election) on the Cambridge Analytica collecting data on millions of users and manipulating public opinion in favor of Trump or Brexit.
+
+If you don’t mind being the product - not the user - being sold by Facebook to the highest bidders and the target of commercial advertisement and political manipulation, then being on there is not an issue. If you and other people in your community don’t care about feeding the monster’s algorithms that are rigged toward unaccountable profit-maximization of Silicon Valley’s shareholders, then you’re fine. But then perhaps you do care about organizing effectively against food waste?
+
+Facebook is not a good choice for organizing, simply because information might easily get lost of view in the overflow of information of its newsfeed/timeline and not reach the people who matter the most, those who are really committed and willing to put their energy and time into the project. Don’t be fooled by the numbers of likes or of people joining your Facebook group. The support feels nice, but the people who matter are the 1 out of 50 who will actually do stuff.
+
+Keep a reliable line of communication with them, a tool or platform where an opportunity or important reply will not go missed among the cat memes and pictures of that distant cousin’s child. Important information might get lost out of sight even in a Facebook group’s page, particularly when you start working with more people and when in need of coordinating more pickups. It’s not only a mess, but a intentional feature: Facebook is designed for distraction and for quick dopamine kicks on those notifications poping up.
+
+
+
+So if you want to make your project grow and choose to do it on a voluntary and non-hierarchical basis, you probably need a tool for online discussions (a forum or chat space for teamwork) and a tool for people to coordinate pickups by themselves. Depending on your choice, you might need someone with some extra technical skills to set it up for you, something like your own forum, chat or website.
+
+But don’t worry if you don’t have the tech skills. There are alternatives just one click away.
+
+## Some awesome free and open-source alternatives...
+
+If not on Facebook, then where? And how to get people there? Well, it always depends on the size of your core group involved in the project and number of foodsavers. When starting off with only 2 to 6 interested people it shouldn’t be a problem to use good old-fashioned e-mail. As more people join in and as you start cooperating with stores you might consider using some kind of forum or tool to organize your pickups. I’ll start with the most straightforward.
+
+[Karrot](https://karrot.world) is made specifically for the purpose of saving food and it’s being developed on a voluntary basis by people with the knowledge and years of experience from saving food. For the time being, it works perfectly fine for coordinating pickups and giving feedback on them, particularly when you have regular pickups and pickups that you know of in advance.
+
+It is still not suited for long and organized communication, but the great thing about it is that it the developers are constantly seeking feedback from the foodsaving communities worldwide and developing the tool in a direction that will cover most, if not all, of the needs of a foodsaving community. It should be a natural choice for any growing or well-established foodsaving project.
+
+[](https://karrot.world)
+
+A forum is also very useful, based on my personal experience, and if you have someone who can set up one for your project I recommend a [Discourse](https://www.discourse.org/) or a [Vanilla](https://vanillaforums.com/en/software/) forum. A forum is designed to be a place where you can have discussions on topics, organized in categories or by tags and which will work in the long run as a knowledge bank when in need of searching relevant information (something that is quite troublesome on Facebook groups). Other interesting tools for teamwork are [Rocket Chat](https://rocket.chat/) and [Mattermost](https://mattermost.com/), alternatives to Slack which is a proprietary platform growing in popularity.
+
+[Riot](https://riot.im/app/) deserves a mention too because, unlike these other options, it is built upon a protocol that allows for federated decentralization (think about how we communicate by e-mail through different service providers, but this time with chats), but unfortunately I don't find it very user-friendly. These tools provide a more dynamic interaction between participants because they are basically tools allowing you to create different chat rooms for different purposes and topics of discussions. The downside is that older information might also get easily lost in the flow.
+
+Finally, if you’re looking for something that combines discussion and decision-making, then [Loomio](https://www.loomio.org/) is the tool for you.
+
+ *a demo of Rocket Chat*
+
+There is really not one single best solution and you might consider a combination of different tools depending on your context (see for example our experience in Gothenburg, described in another [post](https://foodsaving.today/en/blog/2017/04/27/foodsharing-gothenburg-part3)) . It should also be noted that most of these examples of discussion forums and chats for teamwork are free of charge, but only if you are able to host your own instance of them, meaning that you’ll need someone to set it up for you if you can’t do it yourself. Finding the right person to do it shouldn’t be a problem as soon as your foodsaving network starts to expand, and it’s definitely worth it.
+
+You might have noticed that I left out widely used tools for group communication, like Whatsapp, Telegram and Slack, or even shared documents on Google Drive. That is a conscious choice, since they are (in the case of Telegram only partly) proprietary systems and owned by a corporation, which may or do lead to very similar ethical issues as in the case of Facebook. And if you think it’s hard to get people to use a new tool, I’ll tell you now why this is a lame excuse.
+
+## Transitioning people into free digital spaces
+
+When you start getting loads of food, it seems inevitable using Facebook in order to spread the word and share the food so that it won’t get spoiled. This is true for the short-term, when you’re starting a new cooperation and bringing lots of food to a new sharing point, until people find out about it, particularly those living nearby. However, with time you will probably notice a recurring behavior: people are expecting updates on Facebook, and some of them relate to your project as nothing more than free food, even as a service provider or charity organization rather than a volunteer-based grassroots project.
+
+This is typical when reaching out to bigger audiences and not necessarily a problem, as long as the majority understands the concept and you can attract those who will actually become volunteers. However, if only a handful of the same people are basically serving the rest of the people at the receiving end, then you are probably missing out on a golden opportunity.
+
+ *a Discourse forum, in this case, Foodsaving Worldwide's*
+
+Food is a powerful currency, so why not use it to “buy” people’s attention into another digital space, one that fosters better cooperation, communication and is owned by the community itself? Attracting a person to your own platform is a way to make visible some of the work your group of volunteers is putting in to the whole thing and to bring attention to any other discussions relating to the topic of food waste, which is the whole educational point about saving food waste and sharing it for free.
+
+Just start publishing news and announcements of food distribution first-hand on your website or forum, mainly among peers, and post it with a delay on Facebook if necessary, such as in cases when you cannot give away the food quickly enough by other means. This assuming obviously that you make it whatever other tool you’re using to organize your foodsaving project easily accessible for people to join and participate.
+
+Let us not be fooled by the number of likes on pages and posts and the statistics given by Facebook on how many people you’ve reached this week. Instead, be aware of how other tools may facilitate and enable the relationships and cooperative attitudes that really matter, while bringing some of people’s online attention to more productive and ethical spaces.
+
+Do you have a different experience, any challenges or advice on which tools you use or tried to organize your foodsaving community? Then please share it with us at the [Foodsaving Worldwide Forum](https://community.foodsaving.world/t/organize-outside-facebook-the-why-and-the-how/80).
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+---
+title: Organize outside Facebook
+date: 24-07-2018
+headline: The Why and the How
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Bruno
+---
+
+## The Why and the How
+
+If you’re getting started with your foodsaving group or if you established one already, the most natural option is/was a Facebook group or page. Facebook is possibly the online platform where you can reach out to the greatest number of people living in your region who might care about food waste, so I won’t deny its power in regards to outreach and campaigning.
+
+In fact, I actually take quite a pragmatist approach in my own foodsaving community by continuing to use it strategically, so we haven’t ditched it completely. But only using it for PR and campaigning is actually one reason we are success at organizing ourselves.
+
+This text will not only be about why Facebooks sucks on many different levels, I will also present a number of alternatives and share my own experience as a community organizer who is particularly interested in the potential of free, open-source and more ethical choices of digital tools.
+
+## Why?
+
+There are basically two reasons why you should not rely on Facebook to organize your foodsaving community, or any kind of grassroots community/organization for that matter. One is ethical and the other is practical. I’m not gonna go on about the ethical reasons, for there are plenty of well-document material and articles out there on Facebook’s shady business. I guess you’ve heard about the latest [scandal](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election) on the Cambridge Analytica collecting data on millions of users and manipulating public opinion in favor of Trump or Brexit.
+
+If you don’t mind being the product - not the user - being sold by Facebook to the highest bidders and the target of commercial advertisement and political manipulation, then being on there is not an issue. If you and other people in your community don’t care about feeding the monster’s algorithms that are rigged toward unaccountable profit-maximization of Silicon Valley’s shareholders, then you’re fine. But then perhaps you do care about organizing effectively against food waste?
+
+Facebook is not a good choice for organizing, simply because information might easily get lost of view in the overflow of information of its newsfeed/timeline and not reach the people who matter the most, those who are really committed and willing to put their energy and time into the project. Don’t be fooled by the numbers of likes or of people joining your Facebook group. The support feels nice, but the people who matter are the 1 out of 50 who will actually do stuff.
+
+Keep a reliable line of communication with them, a tool or platform where an opportunity or important reply will not go missed among the cat memes and pictures of that distant cousin’s child. Important information might get lost out of sight even in a Facebook group’s page, particularly when you start working with more people and when in need of coordinating more pickups. It’s not only a mess, but a intentional feature: Facebook is designed for distraction and for quick dopamine kicks on those notifications poping up.
+
+
+
+So if you want to make your project grow and choose to do it on a voluntary and non-hierarchical basis, you probably need a tool for online discussions (a forum or chat space for teamwork) and a tool for people to coordinate pickups by themselves. Depending on your choice, you might need someone with some extra technical skills to set it up for you, something like your own forum, chat or website.
+
+But don’t worry if you don’t have the tech skills. There are alternatives just one click away.
+
+## Some awesome free and open-source alternatives...
+
+If not on Facebook, then where? And how to get people there? Well, it always depends on the size of your core group involved in the project and number of foodsavers. When starting off with only 2 to 6 interested people it shouldn’t be a problem to use good old-fashioned e-mail. As more people join in and as you start cooperating with stores you might consider using some kind of forum or tool to organize your pickups. I’ll start with the most straightforward.
+
+[Karrot](https://karrot.world) is made specifically for the purpose of saving food and it’s being developed on a voluntary basis by people with the knowledge and years of experience from saving food. For the time being, it works perfectly fine for coordinating pickups and giving feedback on them, particularly when you have regular pickups and pickups that you know of in advance.
+
+It is still not suited for long and organized communication, but the great thing about it is that it the developers are constantly seeking feedback from the foodsaving communities worldwide and developing the tool in a direction that will cover most, if not all, of the needs of a foodsaving community. It should be a natural choice for any growing or well-established foodsaving project.
+
+[](https://karrot.world)
+
+A forum is also very useful, based on my personal experience, and if you have someone who can set up one for your project I recommend a [Discourse](https://www.discourse.org/) or a [Vanilla](https://vanillaforums.com/en/software/) forum. A forum is designed to be a place where you can have discussions on topics, organized in categories or by tags and which will work in the long run as a knowledge bank when in need of searching relevant information (something that is quite troublesome on Facebook groups). Other interesting tools for teamwork are [Rocket Chat](https://rocket.chat/) and [Mattermost](https://mattermost.com/), alternatives to Slack which is a proprietary platform growing in popularity.
+
+[Riot](https://riot.im/app/) deserves a mention too because, unlike these other options, it is built upon a protocol that allows for federated decentralization (think about how we communicate by e-mail through different service providers, but this time with chats), but unfortunately I don't find it very user-friendly. These tools provide a more dynamic interaction between participants because they are basically tools allowing you to create different chat rooms for different purposes and topics of discussions. The downside is that older information might also get easily lost in the flow.
+
+Finally, if you’re looking for something that combines discussion and decision-making, then [Loomio](https://www.loomio.org/) is the tool for you.
+
+ *a demo of Rocket Chat*
+
+There is really not one single best solution and you might consider a combination of different tools depending on your context (see for example our experience in Gothenburg, described in another [post](https://foodsaving.today/en/blog/2017/04/27/foodsharing-gothenburg-part3)) . It should also be noted that most of these examples of discussion forums and chats for teamwork are free of charge, but only if you are able to host your own instance of them, meaning that you’ll need someone to set it up for you if you can’t do it yourself. Finding the right person to do it shouldn’t be a problem as soon as your foodsaving network starts to expand, and it’s definitely worth it.
+
+You might have noticed that I left out widely used tools for group communication, like Whatsapp, Telegram and Slack, or even shared documents on Google Drive. That is a conscious choice, since they are (in the case of Telegram only partly) proprietary systems and owned by a corporation, which may or do lead to very similar ethical issues as in the case of Facebook. And if you think it’s hard to get people to use a new tool, I’ll tell you now why this is a lame excuse.
+
+## Transitioning people into free digital spaces
+
+When you start getting loads of food, it seems inevitable using Facebook in order to spread the word and share the food so that it won’t get spoiled. This is true for the short-term, when you’re starting a new cooperation and bringing lots of food to a new sharing point, until people find out about it, particularly those living nearby. However, with time you will probably notice a recurring behavior: people are expecting updates on Facebook, and some of them relate to your project as nothing more than free food, even as a service provider or charity organization rather than a volunteer-based grassroots project.
+
+This is typical when reaching out to bigger audiences and not necessarily a problem, as long as the majority understands the concept and you can attract those who will actually become volunteers. However, if only a handful of the same people are basically serving the rest of the people at the receiving end, then you are probably missing out on a golden opportunity.
+
+ *a Discourse forum, in this case, Foodsaving Worldwide's*
+
+Food is a powerful currency, so why not use it to “buy” people’s attention into another digital space, one that fosters better cooperation, communication and is owned by the community itself? Attracting a person to your own platform is a way to make visible some of the work your group of volunteers is putting in to the whole thing and to bring attention to any other discussions relating to the topic of food waste, which is the whole educational point about saving food waste and sharing it for free.
+
+Just start publishing news and announcements of food distribution first-hand on your website or forum, mainly among peers, and post it with a delay on Facebook if necessary, such as in cases when you cannot give away the food quickly enough by other means. This assuming obviously that you make it whatever other tool you’re using to organize your foodsaving project easily accessible for people to join and participate.
+
+Let us not be fooled by the number of likes on pages and posts and the statistics given by Facebook on how many people you’ve reached this week. Instead, be aware of how other tools may facilitate and enable the relationships and cooperative attitudes that really matter, while bringing some of people’s online attention to more productive and ethical spaces.
+
+Do you have a different experience, any challenges or advice on which tools you use or tried to organize your foodsaving community? Then please share it with us at the [Foodsaving Worldwide Forum](https://community.foodsaving.world/t/organize-outside-facebook-the-why-and-the-how/80).
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+---
+title: Foodsharing i Östersund
+date: 03-08-2018
+headline: Half a year already!
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Teddy
+---
+
+A few things about Foodsharing in Östersund (Sweden), how I started and what kind of challenges, ideas and projects we had so far. I’ll start and try to get some information together.
+
+
+
+I started in February to share the idea of Foodsharing with people I knew, created a facebook group and held 2 meetings to inform people (only 4-6 ppl showed up). I also made a logo for Foodsharing Östersund (FSosd) At the moment I am the main the person who plans, organises and has an overview. But this is slowly changing and developing. (I am from Germany and only in Östersund for 1 year to study there, I do not speak Swedish well and as I am leaving in January 2019, I am looking to make FSosd independent from me :D)
+
+At the moment we have two running regular cooperations in Östersund. One with a bakery (3x a week) and one with a supermarket “ICA” (3x a week)
+
+## Communication
+
+We communicate via 2 facebook groups, [one for everybody](https://www.facebook.com/FoodsharingOstersund/) and [one for people who are interested in doing some more organising](https://www.facebook.com/groups/194858781249133/). Also we use Telegram for last minute communication and karrot, as it has a chat function now, yay!!
+
+## Managing pickups
+
+From the beginning, all pickups were only available via [karrot.world](https://karrot.world). This is a good way to have an overview on how many people are actually active. Also it is a much better way of communication than Facebook.
+
+
+
+## Problems
+
+As the connection with people is mainly via internet (other than for example in Germany where you need to go to a meeting before you can do pickups officially) it is quite hard to convey the principles of foodsharing and to create a feeling of responsibility in the individual foodsavers. At the moment people more often just don't show up to a pick up. We don't have any rules about what happens if somebody does not show up, as we also do not have a hierarchy really. I wonder how we can make this a little better, without creating a penalty system. or is it necessary? :frowning:
+
+## Cooperation with other initiatives
+
+A very big help for us is that some initiatives cooperate with FSosd and support us. [SMICE](https://www.smice.nu/single-post/2018/06/04/Food-Sharing-i-%C3%96stersund) and [Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan](https://www.sv.se/avdelningar/sv-jamtlands-lan/verksamhet/foodsharing-ostersund---vill-du-bidra-till-att-minska-matsvinnet-70031/) (SV) are our main partners. FSosd is a “study circle” at SV and they print posters and flyers for us. Also FSosd can be found on both websites. Also we are in connection with [PUSHsverige](http://pushsverige.se/) (an initiative for young people that supports sustainable activism) and with a few others.
+
+## Promotion
+
+We had some events to promote Foodsharing: - a brunch - we screened the movie “just eat it” (in a community cinema, the screening license was donated by the producers after asking for it nicely) - a sharing station at a one day festival in town (we managed to get 4 “one time cooperations” just for this event) - I hold presentations on markets, events and where ever I can, through the cooperations with initiatives I get invited quite regularly now - a [radio report about Foodsharing Östersund](https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=78&artikel=6949416) in Swedish
+
+
+
+## Plans and Ideas
+
+- a website for FSosd
+- making FSosd a “förening” (official initiative, association) ?? Pros and Cons?
+- getting more people on board to share the responsibilities
+- having regular meetings?
+
+_This article was first published as a forum post on the foodsaving worldwide community forums. The thread includes more statements from Teddy as well as other people and you can find it [here](https://community.foodsaving.world/t/foodsharing-oestersund-se-half-a-year-already/83).
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+---
+title: Foodsharing i Östersund
+date: 03-08-2018
+headline: Half a year already!
+disqus: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Teddy
+---
+
+A few things about Foodsharing in Östersund (Sweden), how I started and what kind of challenges, ideas and projects we had so far. I’ll start and try to get some information together.
+
+
+
+I started in February to share the idea of Foodsharing with people I knew, created a facebook group and held 2 meetings to inform people (only 4-6 ppl showed up). I also made a logo for Foodsharing Östersund (FSosd) At the moment I am the main the person who plans, organises and has an overview. But this is slowly changing and developing. (I am from Germany and only in Östersund for 1 year to study there, I do not speak Swedish well and as I am leaving in January 2019, I am looking to make FSosd independent from me :D)
+
+At the moment we have two running regular cooperations in Östersund. One with a bakery (3x a week) and one with a supermarket “ICA” (3x a week)
+
+## Communication
+
+We communicate via 2 facebook groups, [one for everybody](https://www.facebook.com/FoodsharingOstersund/) and [one for people who are interested in doing some more organising](https://www.facebook.com/groups/194858781249133/). Also we use Telegram for last minute communication and karrot, as it has a chat function now, yay!!
+
+## Managing pickups
+
+From the beginning, all pickups were only available via [karrot.world](https://karrot.world). This is a good way to have an overview on how many people are actually active. Also it is a much better way of communication than Facebook.
+
+
+
+## Problems
+
+As the connection with people is mainly via internet (other than for example in Germany where you need to go to a meeting before you can do pickups officially) it is quite hard to convey the principles of foodsharing and to create a feeling of responsibility in the individual foodsavers. At the moment people more often just don't show up to a pick up. We don't have any rules about what happens if somebody does not show up, as we also do not have a hierarchy really. I wonder how we can make this a little better, without creating a penalty system. or is it necessary? :frowning:
+
+## Cooperation with other initiatives
+
+A very big help for us is that some initiatives cooperate with FSosd and support us. [SMICE](https://www.smice.nu/single-post/2018/06/04/Food-Sharing-i-%C3%96stersund) and [Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan](https://www.sv.se/avdelningar/sv-jamtlands-lan/verksamhet/foodsharing-ostersund---vill-du-bidra-till-att-minska-matsvinnet-70031/) (SV) are our main partners. FSosd is a “study circle” at SV and they print posters and flyers for us. Also FSosd can be found on both websites. Also we are in connection with [PUSHsverige](http://pushsverige.se/) (an initiative for young people that supports sustainable activism) and with a few others.
+
+## Promotion
+
+We had some events to promote Foodsharing: - a brunch - we screened the movie “just eat it” (in a community cinema, the screening license was donated by the producers after asking for it nicely) - a sharing station at a one day festival in town (we managed to get 4 “one time cooperations” just for this event) - I hold presentations on markets, events and where ever I can, through the cooperations with initiatives I get invited quite regularly now - a [radio report about Foodsharing Östersund](https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=78&artikel=6949416) in Swedish
+
+
+
+## Plans and Ideas
+
+- a website for FSosd
+- making FSosd a “förening” (official initiative, association) ?? Pros and Cons?
+- getting more people on board to share the responsibilities
+- having regular meetings?
+
+_This article was first published as a forum post on the foodsaving worldwide community forums. The thread includes more statements from Teddy as well as other people and you can find it [here](https://community.foodsaving.world/t/foodsharing-oestersund-se-half-a-year-already/83).
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+---
+title: Meeting the foodsavers of Warszawa, Łódź and Wrocław
+date: 18-10-2018
+headline: Jadłodzielnie and misconceptions
+discourse: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Janina
+---
+
+*This is a brief summary of Janina and Tilmann's trip to visit some Polish foodsharing groups in September 2018.*
+
+[Foodsharing in Warszawa is big](https://www.facebook.com/FoodsharingWarszawa/) – but as you can see in [this interactive map](https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1vpCSdHuflmBIw4WWV3VFCQ4L2sU) Poland has more active foodsavers than just those in the capital! Cities like [Kraków](https://www.facebook.com/foodsharing.krakow/) and [Toruń](https://www.facebook.com/jadlodzielnia.torun/) apparently have quite some people who dedicate a lot of time and energy to the cause of rescuing edible food from the bin, but also [Łódź](https://www.facebook.com/FoodsharingLodz/), [Wrocław](https://www.facebook.com/foodsharingwroclaw/) and more have their own foodsharing initiatives.
+
+* * *
+
+Foodsharing in Poland is mostly built on the concept of Food-Share Points. They coined the term 'Jadłodzielnia' which now is widely known and *the* term for open fridges and stations where food can be shared. This is great! But it already got to the point where sometimes people know what 'Jadłodzielnia' is, but not about foodsharing. There have been local politicians trying to appropriate the term as well as the idea and use it for their own benefit without giving any credit to foodsharing and its volunteer activists.
+
+Many people associate Food-Share Points with charity and think that it's mainly homeless people who (are meant to) take food from them. The main goal of waste reduction in general and foodsaving in particular is still not very known to the majority of people – like it is the case in many places.
+
+ *The Polish foodsavers keep their map of Food-Share Points always up-to-date*
+
+[Foodsharing Polska](https://www.facebook.com/FoodsharingPolska) started in Warszawa almost 3 years ago. Today they have 11 Jadłodzielnia and around 100 pickups every week. They started using [Karrot](https://karrot.world) to manage their activities not too long ago and are now actively contributing to improving our foodsaving administration software.
+
+Of course they also participate in public events and raise awareness for the topic of food waste and how foodsharing can help alleviate its consequences. For that purpose they recently made a nice game in which players are given recipe cards and then need to find and share the ingredients in Jadłodzielnia to prepare the meal. The locations roughly match those in reality and the feel of the game is very professional: It's printed on sturdy foil and its cards and coins are exactly as you would expect them in a high-quality board game.
+
+ *Games are great to engage people!*
+
+In Łódź we met Agnieszka and Justyna who have been two main driving forces behind the foodsharing initiative in their city. Since almost two years they work on raising awareness for food waste, recruiting volunteers, doing pickups and maintaining their Jadłodzielnia which is located in the university, faculty of economics and sociology. They have been in contact with other student groups and tried to build a real-life community from their buzzing facebook group, but so far success is very limited.
+
+Both are quite frustrated with the lack of understanding and engagement they encountered. "People seem to think that we run some kind of service" Agnieszka says, "One time we posted a picture of our Jadłodzielnia filled with vegetables and one person just commented that we should not put tomatoes in a fridge. What to do with this kind of people?". "We both have jobs" Justyna adds "and we can't do all this on our own all the time."
+
+They have a facebook group for volunteers but rarely find support in there, so their next step is to call for a real-life meeting and find out who actually is interested in getting involved and who is just a digital relic that should be removed. With more clarity, overview and physical meetings they hope to turn things around and finally form a bigger group of core activists.
+
+ *The Jadłodzielnia in Łódź*
+
+In Wrocław the situation is pretty unique: There is [another organization](http://wezpomoz.pl/) in the city that puts Jadłodzielnia everywhere but doesn't really work on filling them. Maciek and the foodsavers we met up with told us that there is some cooperation between the two groups, but also a lot of confusion and doubt. The other organization apparently has a more charity-like approach and access to some serious funding. They're happy for foodsharing to run the fridges, but they're not mentioning them anywhere.
+
+Understandably, the foodsharing people in Wrocław are torn in their opinion on this situation: Is it a blessing or a curse? Who is stealing whose credit? Does it even matter what name is used when more food can be saved? But what about the focus on fighting food waste instead of providing a service? These are interesting circumstances and in general foodsharing Wrocław looks positively into the future.
+
+ *The only Jadłodzielnia with foodsharing logo in Wrocław*
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+---
+title: Meeting the foodsavers of Warszawa, Łódź and Wrocław
+date: 18-10-2018
+headline: Jadłodzielnie and misconceptions
+discourse: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Janina
+---
+
+*This is a brief summary of Janina and Tilmann's trip to visit some Polish foodsharing groups in September 2018.*
+
+[Foodsharing in Warszawa is big](https://www.facebook.com/FoodsharingWarszawa/) – but as you can see in [this interactive map](https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1vpCSdHuflmBIw4WWV3VFCQ4L2sU) Poland has more active foodsavers than just those in the capital! Cities like [Kraków](https://www.facebook.com/foodsharing.krakow/) and [Toruń](https://www.facebook.com/jadlodzielnia.torun/) apparently have quite some people who dedicate a lot of time and energy to the cause of rescuing edible food from the bin, but also [Łódź](https://www.facebook.com/FoodsharingLodz/), [Wrocław](https://www.facebook.com/foodsharingwroclaw/) and more have their own foodsharing initiatives.
+
+* * *
+
+Foodsharing in Poland is mostly built on the concept of Food-Share Points. They coined the term 'Jadłodzielnia' which now is widely known and *the* term for open fridges and stations where food can be shared. This is great! But it already got to the point where sometimes people know what 'Jadłodzielnia' is, but not about foodsharing. There have been local politicians trying to appropriate the term as well as the idea and use it for their own benefit without giving any credit to foodsharing and its volunteer activists.
+
+Many people associate Food-Share Points with charity and think that it's mainly homeless people who (are meant to) take food from them. The main goal of waste reduction in general and foodsaving in particular is still not very known to the majority of people – like it is the case in many places.
+
+ *The Polish foodsavers keep their map of Food-Share Points always up-to-date*
+
+[Foodsharing Polska](https://www.facebook.com/FoodsharingPolska) started in Warszawa almost 3 years ago. Today they have 11 Jadłodzielnia and around 100 pickups every week. They started using [Karrot](https://karrot.world) to manage their activities not too long ago and are now actively contributing to improving our foodsaving administration software.
+
+Of course they also participate in public events and raise awareness for the topic of food waste and how foodsharing can help alleviate its consequences. For that purpose they recently made a nice game in which players are given recipe cards and then need to find and share the ingredients in Jadłodzielnia to prepare the meal. The locations roughly match those in reality and the feel of the game is very professional: It's printed on sturdy foil and its cards and coins are exactly as you would expect them in a high-quality board game.
+
+ *Games are great to engage people!*
+
+In Łódź we met Agnieszka and Justyna who have been two main driving forces behind the foodsharing initiative in their city. Since almost two years they work on raising awareness for food waste, recruiting volunteers, doing pickups and maintaining their Jadłodzielnia which is located in the university, faculty of economics and sociology. They have been in contact with other student groups and tried to build a real-life community from their buzzing facebook group, but so far success is very limited.
+
+Both are quite frustrated with the lack of understanding and engagement they encountered. "People seem to think that we run some kind of service" Agnieszka says, "One time we posted a picture of our Jadłodzielnia filled with vegetables and one person just commented that we should not put tomatoes in a fridge. What to do with this kind of people?". "We both have jobs" Justyna adds "and we can't do all this on our own all the time."
+
+They have a facebook group for volunteers but rarely find support in there, so their next step is to call for a real-life meeting and find out who actually is interested in getting involved and who is just a digital relic that should be removed. With more clarity, overview and physical meetings they hope to turn things around and finally form a bigger group of core activists.
+
+ *The Jadłodzielnia in Łódź*
+
+In Wrocław the situation is pretty unique: There is [another organization](http://wezpomoz.pl/) in the city that puts Jadłodzielnia everywhere but doesn't really work on filling them. Maciek and the foodsavers we met up with told us that there is some cooperation between the two groups, but also a lot of confusion and doubt. The other organization apparently has a more charity-like approach and access to some serious funding. They're happy for foodsharing to run the fridges, but they're not mentioning them anywhere.
+
+Understandably, the foodsharing people in Wrocław are torn in their opinion on this situation: Is it a blessing or a curse? Who is stealing whose credit? Does it even matter what name is used when more food can be saved? But what about the focus on fighting food waste instead of providing a service? These are interesting circumstances and in general foodsharing Wrocław looks positively into the future.
+
+ *The only Jadłodzielnia with foodsharing logo in Wrocław*
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+title: Foodsharing Łódź - Radio Interview
+date: 23-11-2018
+headline: One year anniversary
+discourse: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Nathalie
+---
+
+A great event took place on November 10 because of the first anniversary of the food share point in Łódź. Agnieszka Laskowska and Anna Dolinska promote the event and give us a look behind the scenes of [foodsharing Łódź](https://www.facebook.com/FoodsharingLodz) in their [radio interview](https://www.radiolodz.pl/broadcast_posts/48304-pierwsze-urodziny-lodzkiej-jadlodzielni-jestem-eko).
+
+Last Saturday you could join different workshops, lectures or live cooking classes to learn about foodsharing and how to prevent food waste. Not only children, also grown-ups had fun with different educational games. One of the many highlights was the concert in the evening. The most impressive fact probably is that this all-day event was organized voluntarily besides a full-time job - just as the whole foodsharing movement in Łódź. Thanks to the student initiative and a lot of work that was put in, one year go the food share point could open in the university building.
+
+ *Flyer for the event*
+
+There is still a lot of work to do to spread the news. Promoting the food share point is the first task to start with, to let more people know about this possibility. Although it is a located in a university building, it is free to use for everyone. People are warmly invited to visit!
+
+Furthermore, volunteers are needed to organize pickups from stores and educate people about reducing food waste. Although people tend to be quite busy in their daily lifes, Agnieszka and Anna strongly believe that it’s possible to find time to spend on a good cause. And the topic is urgent: food waste is a huge problem not only in Poland but in the whole world and we face it every day.
+
+Each good idea needs time. Joining the foodsharing group, having a feeling of community and facing the problems together is a powerful drive for this young movement. Everyone can join and can find the task that is most suitable for them: you can pick up food from local restaurants and stores as a so-called foodsaver, promote the food share point, do educational work or organize events like the anniversary celebration mentioned above. Even foreign students joined the foodsharing group already.
+
+ *Food share point in Łódź*
+
+Agnieszka and Anna also observe some difficulties but show understanding for a lack of involvement. In a vibrant city like Łódź, foodsharing is not the only initiative to choose from. Also the life of a student has changed. Agnieszka admits that she barely knows anyone who doesn’t have a job besides studies. A more general problem is the decrease in appreciation of food, as people get more prosperous and wasting food becomes a life-style. On the other side people might get stigmatized for taking food out of the food share point. With their activities Agnieszka, Anna and more volunteers of foodsharing try to overcome these problems and fight against food waste.
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+---
+title: Foodsharing Łódź - Radio Interview
+date: 23-11-2018
+headline: One year anniversary
+discourse: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Nathalie
+---
+
+A great event took place on November 10 because of the first anniversary of the food share point in Łódź. Agnieszka Laskowska and Anna Dolinska promote the event and give us a look behind the scenes of [foodsharing Łódź](https://www.facebook.com/FoodsharingLodz) in their [radio interview](https://www.radiolodz.pl/broadcast_posts/48304-pierwsze-urodziny-lodzkiej-jadlodzielni-jestem-eko).
+
+Last Saturday you could join different workshops, lectures or live cooking classes to learn about foodsharing and how to prevent food waste. Not only children, also grown-ups had fun with different educational games. One of the many highlights was the concert in the evening. The most impressive fact probably is that this all-day event was organized voluntarily besides a full-time job - just as the whole foodsharing movement in Łódź. Thanks to the student initiative and a lot of work that was put in, one year go the food share point could open in the university building.
+
+ *Flyer for the event*
+
+There is still a lot of work to do to spread the news. Promoting the food share point is the first task to start with, to let more people know about this possibility. Although it is a located in a university building, it is free to use for everyone. People are warmly invited to visit!
+
+Furthermore, volunteers are needed to organize pickups from stores and educate people about reducing food waste. Although people tend to be quite busy in their daily lifes, Agnieszka and Anna strongly believe that it’s possible to find time to spend on a good cause. And the topic is urgent: food waste is a huge problem not only in Poland but in the whole world and we face it every day.
+
+Each good idea needs time. Joining the foodsharing group, having a feeling of community and facing the problems together is a powerful drive for this young movement. Everyone can join and can find the task that is most suitable for them: you can pick up food from local restaurants and stores as a so-called foodsaver, promote the food share point, do educational work or organize events like the anniversary celebration mentioned above. Even foreign students joined the foodsharing group already.
+
+ *Food share point in Łódź*
+
+Agnieszka and Anna also observe some difficulties but show understanding for a lack of involvement. In a vibrant city like Łódź, foodsharing is not the only initiative to choose from. Also the life of a student has changed. Agnieszka admits that she barely knows anyone who doesn’t have a job besides studies. A more general problem is the decrease in appreciation of food, as people get more prosperous and wasting food becomes a life-style. On the other side people might get stigmatized for taking food out of the food share point. With their activities Agnieszka, Anna and more volunteers of foodsharing try to overcome these problems and fight against food waste.
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+---
+title: The foodsaving grassroots movement
+date: 01-01-2019
+headline: We get to talk on 35c3!
+discourse: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Janina
+---
+
+2018 ended with a great opportunity for the [foodsaving worldwide team](https://foodsaving.world/team): We got accepted to hold a talk about what we do and why on the 35th annual [Chaos Communication Congress](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress) - the biggest European hacker event with 16.000 people participating!
+
+Nick, Tilmann and I (Janina) prepared a 30 minutes bit about the following topics:
+
+- The extent of the global food waste scandal
+- How traditional ways to counter it fail
+- The method and success of foodsharing.de
+- How it's spreading further and further
+- The idea and basic features of Karrot
+- How and why Karrot is made the way it is
+
+You can watch it in the original English version or in a translated German one. Enjoy!
+
+
+
+
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+---
+title: The foodsaving grassroots movement
+date: 01-01-2019
+headline: We get to talk on 35c3!
+discourse: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Janina
+---
+
+2018 ended with a great opportunity for the [foodsaving worldwide team](https://foodsaving.world/team): We got accepted to hold a talk about what we do and why on the 35th annual [Chaos Communication Congress](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress) - the biggest European hacker event with 16.000 people participating!
+
+Nick, Tilmann and I (Janina) prepared a 30 minutes bit about the following topics:
+
+- The extent of the global food waste scandal
+- How traditional ways to counter it fail
+- The method and success of foodsharing.de
+- How it's spreading further and further
+- The idea and basic features of Karrot
+- How and why Karrot is made the way it is
+
+You can watch it in the original English version or in a translated German one. Enjoy!
+
+
+
+
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+title: Kann Foodsharing in Armenien funktionieren?
+date: 18-02-2019
+headline: Mediamax recherchiert!
+discourse: richtig
+taxonomy:
+ category: Blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Janina
+---
+
+*Dieser Artikel wurde am 15. November 2018 von Mediamax veröffentlicht. [Hier Klicken](https://mediamax.am/am/news/special-report/31179/) um das armenische Original zu lesen. Alle Bilder sind dem Artikel entnommen. Übersetzung und Wiederveröffentlichung mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Autors Amalie Khachatryan. Es wurde keine Urheberrechtsverletzung beabsichtigt!*
+
+# Die Lebensmittelverschwendung und die Idee von Foodsharing
+
+*Haben Sie sich jemals gefragt, was mit den Essensresten passiert, die wir in einem Restaurant oder Café bestellen? Oder wo man die Produkte findet, die aus dem Supermarktregal nach ein paar Tagen verschwinden, ohne verbraucht zu werden? Mediamax versuchte herauszufinden, was die armenischen Lebensmittelerzeugung-, Verarbeitungs- oder Einkaufszentren zu bieten haben in Bezug auf Lebensmittelüberschüße, und welche Möglichkeiten es gibt die Lebensmittel noch zu nutzen.*
+
+Bevor wir die Lage in Armenien untersuchen, sollten wir uns die internationale ansehen. Vor 7 Jahren begann die Foodsharing-Bewegung in Berlin nicht frische, aber auch nicht alte, Lebensmittel weiter zu verteilen, um zu verhindern das sie verschwendet werden. Um die Erfahrungen in Europa und Armenien zu vergleichen, sprachen wir mit den Mitgliedern von Foodsharing und mehreren armenischen Unternehmen, um herauszufinden, ob in Armenien alternative Lösungen verfügbar sind.
+
+## In Deutschland
+
+We had a meeting with 20-year-old Max Fioravanti, a volunteer of the foodsharing movement in Berlin. Before telling us about the movement, Max proudly points out that he joined foodsharing in the beginning of this year and already saved over 200 kg of food. The food he saved got redistributed to friends and needy people. Max is a student and lives alone in Berlin. He almost always eats the surplus food from special occasions and does pickups at cafes and shops. In the morning, we are greeted with free croissants from yesterday. They are not fresh, but they are not old enough to count as trash. Still, the café would throw them out in the morning and prepare new ones.
+
+
+
+"Maybe it's stupid, but I can not watch how the food is thrown away. I have been to Cambodia and have seen how the children are starving in the street, while in the hotel 4 km away half of the food prepared is just thrown away. It does not matter if it's 4 or 4000 km distance, we should not allow it." says Max, when explaining the idea and background of foodsharing.
+
+## What is foodsharing?
+
+Foodsharing is a volunteer organization that aims to fight food waste everyday. They offer companies to make their surplus food available for pickups by members of the movement instead of throwing it away. They will share it with people who cannot afford to buy it, or with anybody who wants to use that product.
+
+It all started with the creators of the documentary film 'Taste the Waste'. Since 2011, the people behind that movie are connecting other people who are concerned about the topic of food waste. They raise funds, organize campaigns, and eventually sum up everyone's programs on foodsharing.de. Foodsharing today also operates in Austria and Switzerland, and it extends to other European countries, including Denmark, Poland and the Netherlands. 6,000 volunteers have joined the movement in Berlin only and more than 100 stores cooperate in the German capital.
+
+
+
+By the way, if other similar movements only cater to people in need, foodsharing's expired food is also aimed at so-called normal people. They are not focused on helping needy people; foodsharing's idea is to save food from being wasted and it does not matter who will use that food.
+
+## How Foodsharing works
+
+Volunteers collaborate with stores, networks, food makers, or wholesalers. Foodsharing is committed to taking on all responsibility, that is, food providers are not responsible for any possible consequence of the consumption of the food.
+
+An exact time for picking up the food is agreed upon. This kind of cooperation is a win for different kinds of people: those who cannot afford this food, as well as those who worry about having a stable society with minimal waste. After taking the food at the agreed time, the volunteers will divide the food upon themselves, distribute it or place it in public refrigerators in different parts of the city.
+
+
+
+In Berlin, there are refrigerators available in several parts of the city, from which everyone can take still edible food or leave their own surplus.
+
+## *Maybe also in Armenia*
+
+## Carrefour supermarket
+
+"There is a huge amount of food every month. Food waste is divided into two categories: the first is when the expiration date is passed, the other when the product is still before the date but does not look appropriate for sale. The main foodstuff that goes to waste is fresh food: baked goods, cake, fruit, vegetables, meat products, fish, dairy products, homemade dishes. This is our daily waste twice a day." Mediamax was told by a representative of the Carrefour Armenia supermarket for Carrefour International.
+
+
+
+All expired products in the hypermarket end up in the trash and get destroyed before they are thrown away. "If we simply throw it in the trash, people will take it and sell it right away, and we do not sell our garbage," said Carrefour spokesman and added "There was an experience with Carrefour in one country, where we have been giving our surplus to organizations fighting against waste, but, unfortunately, afterwards we found these products on the market. That's why we are no longer cooperating with any organization. There are countries where Carrefour gives food waste to farmers as animal feed. In Armenia we have received such offers from the villagers, but we have not accepted them. And if we want to do charity, we'll give people fresh produce."
+
+
+
+When talking about work with Armenian suppliers, Carrefour says most of the surplus goods cannot be returned and the supermarket has to take care of waste management. Only the dairy producers are employed on return basis.
+
+## Parma supermarket
+
+Unlike Carrefour, a Parma supermarket representative says any product that appears in the supermarket, has its own supplier, manufacturer or importer, and 95% of the suppliers work on a return basis. 1 week or 1 day before the expiration date, depending on the arrangement, the product is returned to the supplier. What then happens to the food, the supermarket is unaware of.
+
+Fresh salads and hot dishes are sold every day at 8 pm, and the cakes are sold for several days, depending on the ingredients.
+
+"We have very small quantities of foodstuffs and the permitted amount of waste - which is food that cannot be sold anymore the next day - is being dumped and thrown out to the garbage." says Chief of Staff at the Northern Avenue of Parma Supermarket, Food Quality Control Officer Naira Khachatryan.
+
+He informs that the waste counts as tax expense and will be deducted from certain tax liabilities. "Naturally, the entrepreneur would prefer to get rid of tax liabilities and to show the waste to the relevant bodies rather than to do charity. Theoretically, the idea of the Foodsharing movement is very good, but in practice it is necessary to develop serious mechanisms that will benefit both sides, both the state and the entrepreneur.
+
+
+
+In order for a supermarket to be able to offer such a service in a way that is profitable, it is necessary to get some tax benefits, otherwise the supermarket itself will not be able to give free or discounted goods to any organization after 8 pm, says the Parma representative.
+
+## Crumbs The Bread Factory - Cafe and shop
+
+"We have never wasted food. We have always been aware of the fact that there are people who live in hunger. Twice a week we send our leftover products that have been preserved and can still be used to orphanages and other shelters for people in need" said Rosa Gharibyan, Crumbs Deputy Director.
+
+At Crumbs café, avoiding waste really is a core task: leftover apples and apple juice gets transformed into apple cider vinegar, the food that is not finished by the customers gets collected and given to animals.
+
+"If we have a surplus of egg protein, we use it just like egg, add sugar, cook it in the oven and turn it into nice food which we then give to children's homes and the poor. I have seen how this protein gets wasted in many places when the packaging is damaged." says Crumbs' deputy director.
+
+
+
+Crumbs sells their cookies over the period of some days, and after the expiration date, they get eaten by morning cuisine workers.
+
+"We might be the only partners but we'll happily cooperate with such food-saving initiatives. We don't handle as much food as a supermarket and thus don't have a similar big impact on the problem as a whole. But on the other hand, 20 of our cafes can easily make up for more than one supermarket." says Roza Gharibyan.
+
+## Yeremyan Projects ("Tavern Yerevan", "Lavash", "Sherep" restaurants)
+
+Food collectors at Yeremyan Projects do not have much to do because food in their restaurants will not simply become garbage. According to PR head Anahit Gevorgyan, all food surplus is used purposefully: Leftovers are transported to the village of Avan where they are used to feed animals. Damaged or imperfect fruit and vegetables will be used in the enterprise's own factory, for example to make tomato paste from such tomatoes.
+
+
+
+"The problem of large quantities of food waste also exists in Armenia, but we have found a solution to this problem by creating our own factory and farming point. Still, if there were organizations that take the food in the whole city and use it purposefully, maybe we would cooperate with them." says Anahit Gevorgyan.
+
+## Art Lunch canteens
+
+Despite the fact that at the 40 Art Lunch canteens food surplus is not much, they are constantly on the lookout, Art Lunch founder Bakur Melkonyan says if a food waste initiative is created in Armenia, they will definitely agree to cooperate. But it also notes that there are a number of important issues that need to be taken into consideration.
+
+Food that did not consumed on time, lost its freshness and became a potential health risk will be eaten by Art Lunch's own pig breed.
+
+"When we close at 6 pm, we check what can still be used. We might give it to initiatives fighting against food waste, but it needs to be consumed quickly, because otherwise it will go bad." Melkonyan says.
+
+
+
+He sees the idea to make fertilizer from food waste and scraps as the perfect solution: "Once we were approached by young people with the plan to get more food or fuel from the food, but as far as I know, the program did not continue. In case such a project restarted it could work perfectly with us. We give the food waste, the organization gives the fertilizer to the villagers to cultivate the land, and we will buy the product of the villager." says the Art Lunch founder.
+
+## "Tamara", "Atenk", "SAS", "Nor Zovk"
+
+Tamara dairy and confectionery company did not want to talk to us about food waste. The company representative only mentioned that they completely destroy the surpluses from the stores because they consider it risky to donate the expired food and keep on using it in foodsaving initiatives.
+
+We also contacted "Atenk" meat-processing company, "SAS" and "Nor Zovq" supermarkets, but did not manage to get a comment from them.
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+title: Can foodsharing work in Armenia?
+date: 18-02-2019
+headline: Mediamax investigates!
+discourse: true
+taxonomy:
+ category: blog
+ tag:
+ - grav
+ author: Janina
+---
+
+*This article was published first on November 15, 2018 by Mediamax. [Click here](https://mediamax.am/am/news/special-report/31179/) to read the Armenian original. All pictures are taken from that article. Translation and republication with kind permission of the author Amalie Khachatryan. No copyright infringement intended!*
+
+# The wasting of food and the idea of foodsharing
+
+*Have you ever wondered what happens to the leftover food we order at a restaurant or cafe? Or where to find the product that disappears from the supermarket shelf after a few days without being consumed? Mediamax tried to find out what the Armenian food-producing, processing or retailing centers offer with regards to surplus food and what solutions there are to still make use of the food.*
+
+Before investigating the Armenian situation, let's have a look at the international one. 7 years ago the foodsharing movement in Berlin started redistributing non-fresh, but also non-old food to save it from being wasted. To compare the European and Armenian experience, we talked with members of foodsharing and several Armenian companies to find out if alternative solutions are available in Armenia.
+
+## In Germany
+
+We had a meeting with 20-year-old Max Fioravanti, a volunteer of the foodsharing movement in Berlin. Before telling us about the movement, Max proudly points out that he joined foodsharing in the beginning of this year and already saved over 200 kg of food. The food he saved got redistributed to friends and needy people. Max is a student and lives alone in Berlin. He almost always eats the surplus food from special occasions and does pickups at cafes and shops. In the morning, we are greeted with free croissants from yesterday. They are not fresh, but they are not old enough to count as trash. Still, the café would throw them out in the morning and prepare new ones.
+
+
+
+"Maybe it's stupid, but I can not watch how the food is thrown away. I have been to Cambodia and have seen how the children are starving in the street, while in the hotel 4 km away half of the food prepared is just thrown away. It does not matter if it's 4 or 4000 km distance, we should not allow it." says Max, when explaining the idea and background of foodsharing.
+
+## What is foodsharing?
+
+Foodsharing is a volunteer organization that aims to fight food waste everyday. They offer companies to make their surplus food available for pickups by members of the movement instead of throwing it away. They will share it with people who cannot afford to buy it, or with anybody who wants to use that product.
+
+It all started with the creators of the documentary film 'Taste the Waste'. Since 2011, the people behind that movie are connecting other people who are concerned about the topic of food waste. They raise funds, organize campaigns, and eventually sum up everyone's programs on foodsharing.de. Foodsharing today also operates in Austria and Switzerland, and it extends to other European countries, including Denmark, Poland and the Netherlands. 6,000 volunteers have joined the movement in Berlin only and more than 100 stores cooperate in the German capital.
+
+
+
+By the way, if other similar movements only cater to people in need, foodsharing's expired food is also aimed at so-called normal people. They are not focused on helping needy people; foodsharing's idea is to save food from being wasted and it does not matter who will use that food.
+
+## How Foodsharing works
+
+Volunteers collaborate with stores, networks, food makers, or wholesalers. Foodsharing is committed to taking on all responsibility, that is, food providers are not responsible for any possible consequence of the consumption of the food.
+
+An exact time for picking up the food is agreed upon. This kind of cooperation is a win for different kinds of people: those who cannot afford this food, as well as those who worry about having a stable society with minimal waste. After taking the food at the agreed time, the volunteers will divide the food upon themselves, distribute it or place it in public refrigerators in different parts of the city.
+
+
+
+In Berlin, there are refrigerators available in several parts of the city, from which everyone can take still edible food or leave their own surplus.
+
+## *Maybe also in Armenia*
+
+## Carrefour supermarket
+
+"There is a huge amount of food every month. Food waste is divided into two categories: the first is when the expiration date is passed, the other when the product is still before the date but does not look appropriate for sale. The main foodstuff that goes to waste is fresh food: baked goods, cake, fruit, vegetables, meat products, fish, dairy products, homemade dishes. This is our daily waste twice a day." Mediamax was told by a representative of the Carrefour Armenia supermarket for Carrefour International.
+
+
+
+All expired products in the hypermarket end up in the trash and get destroyed before they are thrown away. "If we simply throw it in the trash, people will take it and sell it right away, and we do not sell our garbage," said Carrefour spokesman and added "There was an experience with Carrefour in one country, where we have been giving our surplus to organizations fighting against waste, but, unfortunately, afterwards we found these products on the market. That's why we are no longer cooperating with any organization. There are countries where Carrefour gives food waste to farmers as animal feed. In Armenia we have received such offers from the villagers, but we have not accepted them. And if we want to do charity, we'll give people fresh produce."
+
+
+
+When talking about work with Armenian suppliers, Carrefour says most of the surplus goods cannot be returned and the supermarket has to take care of waste management. Only the dairy producers are employed on return basis.
+
+## Parma supermarket
+
+Unlike Carrefour, a Parma supermarket representative says any product that appears in the supermarket, has its own supplier, manufacturer or importer, and 95% of the suppliers work on a return basis. 1 week or 1 day before the expiration date, depending on the arrangement, the product is returned to the supplier. What then happens to the food, the supermarket is unaware of.
+
+Fresh salads and hot dishes are sold every day at 8 pm, and the cakes are sold for several days, depending on the ingredients.
+
+"We have very small quantities of foodstuffs and the permitted amount of waste - which is food that cannot be sold anymore the next day - is being dumped and thrown out to the garbage." says Chief of Staff at the Northern Avenue of Parma Supermarket, Food Quality Control Officer Naira Khachatryan.
+
+He informs that the waste counts as tax expense and will be deducted from certain tax liabilities. "Naturally, the entrepreneur would prefer to get rid of tax liabilities and to show the waste to the relevant bodies rather than to do charity. Theoretically, the idea of the Foodsharing movement is very good, but in practice it is necessary to develop serious mechanisms that will benefit both sides, both the state and the entrepreneur.
+
+
+
+In order for a supermarket to be able to offer such a service in a way that is profitable, it is necessary to get some tax benefits, otherwise the supermarket itself will not be able to give free or discounted goods to any organization after 8 pm, says the Parma representative.
+
+## Crumbs The Bread Factory - Cafe and shop
+
+"We have never wasted food. We have always been aware of the fact that there are people who live in hunger. Twice a week we send our leftover products that have been preserved and can still be used to orphanages and other shelters for people in need" said Rosa Gharibyan, Crumbs Deputy Director.
+
+At Crumbs café, avoiding waste really is a core task: leftover apples and apple juice gets transformed into apple cider vinegar, the food that is not finished by the customers gets collected and given to animals.
+
+"If we have a surplus of egg protein, we use it just like egg, add sugar, cook it in the oven and turn it into nice food which we then give to children's homes and the poor. I have seen how this protein gets wasted in many places when the packaging is damaged." says Crumbs' deputy director.
+
+
+
+Crumbs sells their cookies over the period of some days, and after the expiration date, they get eaten by morning cuisine workers.
+
+"We might be the only partners but we'll happily cooperate with such food-saving initiatives. We don't handle as much food as a supermarket and thus don't have a similar big impact on the problem as a whole. But on the other hand, 20 of our cafes can easily make up for more than one supermarket." says Roza Gharibyan.
+
+## Yeremyan Projects ("Tavern Yerevan", "Lavash", "Sherep" restaurants)
+
+Food collectors at Yeremyan Projects do not have much to do because food in their restaurants will not simply become garbage. According to PR head Anahit Gevorgyan, all food surplus is used purposefully: Leftovers are transported to the village of Avan where they are used to feed animals. Damaged or imperfect fruit and vegetables will be used in the enterprise's own factory, for example to make tomato paste from such tomatoes.
+
+
+
+"The problem of large quantities of food waste also exists in Armenia, but we have found a solution to this problem by creating our own factory and farming point. Still, if there were organizations that take the food in the whole city and use it purposefully, maybe we would cooperate with them." says Anahit Gevorgyan.
+
+## Art Lunch canteens
+
+Despite the fact that at the 40 Art Lunch canteens food surplus is not much, they are constantly on the lookout, Art Lunch founder Bakur Melkonyan says if a food waste initiative is created in Armenia, they will definitely agree to cooperate. But it also notes that there are a number of important issues that need to be taken into consideration.
+
+Food that did not consumed on time, lost its freshness and became a potential health risk will be eaten by Art Lunch's own pig breed.
+
+"When we close at 6 pm, we check what can still be used. We might give it to initiatives fighting against food waste, but it needs to be consumed quickly, because otherwise it will go bad." Melkonyan says.
+
+
+
+He sees the idea to make fertilizer from food waste and scraps as the perfect solution: "Once we were approached by young people with the plan to get more food or fuel from the food, but as far as I know, the program did not continue. In case such a project restarted it could work perfectly with us. We give the food waste, the organization gives the fertilizer to the villagers to cultivate the land, and we will buy the product of the villager." says the Art Lunch founder.
+
+## "Tamara", "Atenk", "SAS", "Nor Zovk"
+
+Tamara dairy and confectionery company did not want to talk to us about food waste. The company representative only mentioned that they completely destroy the surpluses from the stores because they consider it risky to donate the expired food and keep on using it in foodsaving initiatives.
+
+We also contacted "Atenk" meat-processing company, "SAS" and "Nor Zovq" supermarkets, but did not manage to get a comment from them.
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+
Neuigkeiten, Informationen, Geschichten, Ankündigungen und Events über foodsharing aus der ganzen Welt.
Erstellt von dem **#foodsaving-worldwide** Projekt von [yunity](https://yunity.org) mit Hilfe von Menschen aus der ganzen Welt. :)
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+---
+title: Acerca de
+class: inicio
+profile: true
+---
+
+Noticias, información, historias, anuncios y eventos relacionados al ahorro de alimentos alrededor del mundo.
+
+Creado por el proyecto **#foodsaving-worldwide** dentro de [yunity](https://yunity.org) con la ayuda de contribuidores de todas partes el mundo :)
+
+Si deseas ayudar puedes hacerlo...
+
+## Escribe un post
+
+¡Amamos los posts! La mejor manera es unirse a [slack](http://slackin.yunity.org/) y encontrarnos en el canal **#foosaving-today**.
+
+## Traduce posts
+
+Es muy importante compartir nuestro conocimiento alrededor del mundo, ¡y si puedes ayudar con traducciones sería excelente!
+
+Puedes ayudar en [crowdin.com/project/foodsavingtoday](https://crowdin.com/project/foodsavingtoday).
+
+En estos momentos nos estamos enfocando en inglés y alemán, pero estaremos felices de agregar más idiomas si puedes ayudarnos con las traducciones.
+
+## Contáctanos
+
+Puedes encontrarnos en [slack](http://slackin.yunity.org/) en el canal **#foodsaving-today**.
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