Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "How we can eat our landscapes | Pam Warhurst" video.

  1. I was trying to find the point in this talk, so if you took from it that the point is education, you picked on something I didn't. As for your claim that eating supermarket food is unhealthy and dangerous, are yu including fresh produce in that, because if you are, I'm going to have to challenge you on that. Fresh food wherever it's grown,is subject to pollution in the air and contaminants in the water, but I'd soon eat organic supermarket food than something growing by the road.
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  2. 3D printers are hardly a consumer technology!
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  3. Prickly plants are planted for a reason - they're a more graceful way of stopping people climbing over, and breaking into, public buildings. It's all very well adopting a cowgirl approach to eco-design, but without understanding the reasoning why things are as they are, you might be missing important factors, and deproiving yourself of skilled advisors who could provide vital input.
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  4. I was thinking that myself. In my town, decorative, but poison cherry and plum trees are planted all over. And if you're planting ground level shrubbery in town where animals can urinate, that has issues also. I suppose they could be fenced off, and labelled as edible, but teaching kids to simply eat whatever is around them without teaching them how to recognise what is safe is very risky.
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  5. That's an interesting point, but surely theft is illegal even in your country?
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  6. Now you're talking about the Star Trek model of community - one that I dearly would love to see. It was suggestted that zero-cost nanotechnology would be the enabler for this breakthrough, but sadly the predicted charge towards the development of this tech has utterly failed to materialise, but I live in hope.
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