Junction Triangle

FYI: links discussing urban green spaces, whether it's park space or community gardening -- both have their positive points.

http://www.evergreen.ca/en/index.sn
Evergreen is a not-for-profit organization that makes cities more livable. By deepening the connection between people and nature, and empowering Canadians to take a hands-on approach to their urban environments, Evergreen is improving the health of our cities—now and for the future.

The health of Canada's cities depends on our ability to sustain green spaces that provide a natural refuge for our minds and bodies within the reality of on-going urban development.

Many municipalities and community groups are exploring how they can come together to protect and restore urban and suburban green spaces.

Evergreen's team of Evergreen's team of ecologists, environmental educators, urban planners, social workers, community animators and food gardening specialists has a proven ability to conserve, regenerate and sustain nature in urban environments.

http://www.toronto.ca/health/tfpc_hunger.pdf
City of Toronto
Reducing urban hunger in Ontario: policy responses to support the transition from food charity to local food security.

In the past 15 years, our perceptions of food banks have changed dramatically. First seen by policy makers and the general public as an emergency, short-term and caring response to what was supposed to be a time-limited hunger problem, they are now viewed, at least implicitly and often reluctantly, as one of the cornerstones of society's anti-hunger and anti-poverty strategy. Although there is much talk about eliminating the need for them, concrete strategies to effect such an outcome remain elusive.

In this discussion paper we present an evolutionary series of policy initiatives designed to reduce the need for food banks. These initiatives recognize both the government's fiscal dilemmas and the responsibility of many sectors of society for both the current problem and the potential solutions.

http://www.sustainablefood.org/article/articleview/11054/1/484
Sustainable Food
Low-income urban areas in the U.S. have poor food access, high rates of obesity, diabetes and asthma, high unemployment levels, and populations with low levels of education and little or no job training. Grassroots urban agriculture projects provide important, if small scale, relief for all of these issues. Rates of obesity and diabetes are rising rapidly in low-income areas due in part to lack of access to healthy food. Some cities and states address food poverty and access issues with food policy councils that look at physical food access and public food procurement.

http://www.foodincmovie.com/
Food Inc.
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.