It’s not just a plan for this suburb; it can be used to make any suburb sustainable – it’s free and you’re welcome to put it to work where you are.

Now the Plan can be read on mobiles, kindles and is very easy to search, use and tweet.  Get it here:

theplan.sustainablehouse.com…

Enjoy.

You can see some of the folks who support the Plan.

Please sign the petition to have the Plan exhibited for public comment.  We want the Plan and there’s strong community support for it from here and other people across Sydney, Australia and overseas.

If we can get the Plan made here anyone may use it as an example to persuade other councils and governments to make a Plan to sustain the suburb where they live – if you’re reading this in Melbourne or Texas, USA – sign the petition for the Plan and you’ll be able to use a Plan like this where you live and work, too.

Michael

“Households/week: 247
City Cousins: 32
Price to farmers: 40c/$
Organic or chemical free: 100%
Food miles/week: 173km

Our market comparison with five other organic and non-organic produce box services this month showed we are on average 14% cheaper!”

Julian Lee, co-founder of Sydney Food Connect, is one of five environmentalists named in today’s the(sydney)magazine’s list of Sydney’s top 100 most influential people.

And Stefan Stavropolous, who runs Chippendale’s Cafe Guilia, is one of those, too.

May the local food be with us and our money with the farmers.

Michael

The October Newsletter contains the monthly report on food miles, how much of our money went to the farmers and sales; here it is:

Impact last month

Every box from Food Connect works very hard for a better world and over the month of September the social and environmental impact has been:

Households/week: 320
City Cousins: 25
Price to farmers: 40c/$
Organic or chemical free: 100%
Food miles: 261 km

If you’re not a subscriber yet, that should be enough to tip the balance. Sign up here!

City Cousin update
Let your friends know about new City Cousins in:

• Rozelle
• East Ryde

If you have any friends on the Northern Beaches, North West Sydney, South Sydney or Parramatta regions, get them to put their name down on the waiting list. Once we hit 70 interested subscribers we’ll start delivering.

If you’d like to be a City Cousin yourself email citycousin@sydney.foodconnect.com.au

Good to see Sydney Food Connect being accountable each month for what it’s doing,

M

Over the month of August the social and environmental impact has been:

Households/week: 228
City Cousins: 23
Price to farmers: 40c/$
Organic or chemical free: 100%
Food miles: 261 km

If you’re not a subscriber yet, that should be enough to tip the balance. Sign up here!

I’m the City Cousin for Chippendale.

I love knowing that of the $35 I pay for my box every 40 cents in those dollars is going straight to the farmers.

M

-  over the month of July the social and environmental impact has been:

• Households/week: 180
• City Cousins: 19
• Price to farmers: 40c/$
• Organic or chemical free: 100%
• Food miles: 212 km

For more information:   sydney.foodconnect.com…

To see if there’s a City Cousin near where you live or work:   sydney.foodconnect.com…

I get a box every two weeks at a cost of $35 a box.  So, using their figures, that’s $14 of my box money going to the farmers and $21 to Food Connect (admin, handling, boxes, delivery).  And if I want to put off getting a box for another week or manage my account in some other way I can do all that on the web as the service allows customers to directly manage the frequency and choice of box.  So it’s quite flexible.

Go the farmers,

M