by Karen Welter | Aug 8, 2013 | Longtable Project, uncategorised
This visual haiku presentation highlights the elements of a sustainable restaurant. Food, resources, people & communication. All inter-related, all important. {more of an experiment to see how to embed a haiku...
by Karen Welter | Aug 6, 2013 | Longtable Project, Restaurants
In a few hours Longtable Project goes live. We have visited a number of restaurants and spoken to them about the benefits of the project. One of the first visits to super-supportive Dear Me in Cape Town city resulted in Vanessa and Ilze suggesting a meet-up with...
by Karen Welter | Jun 10, 2013 | Sustainable Actions
Sustainable Actions are actions restaurants commit to that involve shifts in behaviour with regard to food, resources, people or communication. Many of these actions will improve a restaurant’s profitability, others its reputation. These are all attainable and...
by Karen Welter | Mar 28, 2013 | Restaurants
“ Whether or not we eat regular ‘proper’ meals ourselves , the cities we inhabit are geared to them, their streets, cafes, restaurants and bars filling and emptying to their rhythm as surely as the sea turns with the tide..” Carolyn Steel The restaurant, as we know...
by Karen Welter | Mar 21, 2013 | Longtable Project, Restaurants
The problem of Significant Differences l Or how do you create meaningful change and allow everyone to be at the table? It is the movement, the change the journey, the year on year improvement that is important Henry Dimbledy Longtable project needs committed members...
by Karen Welter | Mar 16, 2013 | Restaurants
Admittedly sustainability as an umbrella term is overused and misused, and can be open to misunderstanding. Having said that, what is needed for a restaurant to be sustainable or sustain itself into the future with regard to the economy, society and the environment?...
by Karen Welter | Mar 13, 2013 | Longtable Project, uncategorised
You don’t have to be the lone yodeller up the mountain. If you don’t have the expertise work with people who do Monocle Issue 59 Longtable Project is the go-to space for the Cape town restaurant industry to get support to become more sustainable in...
by Karen Welter | Mar 11, 2013 | Longtable Project, uncategorised
Longtable Project: an idea, a visit to the about to be launched sustainable restaurant association in London talking to people in the game, reading about and visiting restaurant after restaurant an M Phil thesis at Stellenbosch University a logo, a website the hope of...
