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 title: Willkommen bei Foodsaving Today!
-date: '11:01 30-03-2017'
+date: 11:01 30-03-2017
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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).

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+title: '¡Bienvenido a Foodsaving Today!'
+date: 11:01 30-03-2017
+headline: Así comienza...
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+¡Hoy lanzamos nuestra página web! El propósito es compartir noticias, información, anuncios y eventos de alrededor del mundo sobre Foodsaving. Compartir e inspirar.
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+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).
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+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.
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+Eso es todo por ahora, pero permaneced conectados...

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
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 ![](/images/fstaiwan.jpg)
 
 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.

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+title: "Introducing: Foodsharing Taiwan"
+date: 12:00 07-04-2017
+headline: The movement spreads
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+![](/images/fstaiwan.jpg)
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+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.
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+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.
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+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.
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+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.
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+![](/images/Foodhub1.jpg)
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+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.
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+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!

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
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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
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+In this four-part series of blogposts I will describe:
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+- 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.
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+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/)).
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+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.
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+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!
+
+![](/images/homescroll_02a.jpg) *Olle, the veteran dumpster diver who jumped onboard the project and inaugurated together with me the first solidarity fridge and food share point.*
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+![](/images/P1130002.jpg) *Many times we are able to fill up the whole fridge!*
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+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.
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+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.
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+![](/images/DSC03790.jpg) *Second fridge and food share point we put up on a library. Food for thought: literature on sharing*
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+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.
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+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.

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.

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+title: "Foodsharing Gothenburg - Part Two"
+date: 12:00 21-04-2017
+headline: Main practical challenges
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+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.
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+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.
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+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.
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+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.
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+![](greenwashwillys.jpg) *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.*
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+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.
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+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.
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+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.
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+![](nyamatraddare.jpg) *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.
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+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.
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+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.
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+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.
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+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
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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.

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+title: "Foodsharing Gothenburg - Part Three"
+date: 12:00 27-04-2017
+headline: Tools to connect and to organize
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+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.
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+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.
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+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.
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+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.
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+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.
+
+![](fstool.png) *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!