Slow Movement News
Turkish fast food: Real food fast
The definition of ‘fast food’ according to the Wikipedia is food cooked in build and in advance, kept warm or re-heated to order....
Slow Food in collaboration with the region of Liguria, has just finished celebr4ating the event Slow Fish 2007. It was a great success with 42,000 visitors, a much higher number than expected. ...
National Sea Change Task Force urges more flood studies
ABC Wed Jul 11 07 The Mayor of Maroochy Shire on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, Joe Natoli, says it could be another 12 months before the CSIRO is able to undertake a flood modelling study in the Sunshine Coast region because the research body is under-funded. ...
Treechangers change country culture
An influx of treechangers into a rural community can keep population levels steady but it can change the needs and expectations within the community. ...
Social Firms
Social firms are one type of social enterprise. Although social enterprise can be used as an umbrella term it is defined as a business that trades for a social purpose. Some of the community economic structures highlighted here such as community credit unions, cooperatives and LETS schemes are a form of social enterprise. Sometimes social firms act as cooperatives.
A social firm is a business that has been set up specifically to improve the quality of life as well as the social and economic integration of disabled people through appropriate employment opportunities. The aims of social firms include empowerment of the individual. These businesses are committed to the social and economic integration of disabled people through employment by which individuals gain market wages. This is a means to economic empowerment.