Aug 20 2009
The new wave of social scientists
By Kate Hennessy & Amanda Hoh
Scrumping. Verb: The art of finding free food in the street, mostly from large fruit trees that overhang people’s yards or are in public places.
Surely, also, the delicate first cousin of dumpster diving: the art of retrieving perfectly edible food from dumpsters.*
Scrumping is just one of the 100 social “experiments” listed on www.livelocal.org.au – a website that aims to help people re-connect with their immediate environment – and exist more sustainably – by living locally.
Video extraordinaire Amanda Hoh visited the ‘InsideOut: Growing Communities‘ installation at LiveFutures 2020 last Saturday and talked to researcher Natalie Rowland about the project and how it ties in with Live Local.
Myself and my partner were, in fact, two of the people “interviewed” in the Botanicals room on the future of our native seedlings.
