Torchbearers
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Do not miss the chance to meet these inspiring Torchbearers that lead the way on the path of transition.
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Thorup Strand Kystfiskerlaug
In the wake of the privatization of fishing quotas, in 2007 20 small-scale, coastal fishing families decided to form the cooperative Thorupstrand Kystfiskerlaug/ Thorupstrand Coastal Fisherman’s guild. With the goals of keeping the right to fish in their local community and ensuring the access to fishing rights for future generations, they try out various strategies of survival in a fishing sector that is increasingly driven by the concentration of fishing quotas on large-scale vessels. The guild has bought fishing quota collectively, they fish with low-impact gear, and they catch high-quality fish that are landed the same day as it is caught. Moreover, they are experimenting with new ways of reaching the consumers, for instance through collaborations with COOP and Thise Mejeri. Their transition to a sustainable and resilient community is a continually challenging and illuminating process.
Beyond Coffee
Beyond Coffee is a Copenhagen based company who upcycle spent coffee grounds. Our main business is to run an urban mushroom farm, that converts organic coffee grounds into gourmet oyster mushrooms. We sell the mushrooms directly to local restaurants and to consumers through our physical shop. Every month we convert 1,5 tons of coffee grounds into 300 kilos of fresh oyster mushrooms. That means less waste and more food, within the city.
Sustainable Refugee Camps
The Danish Red Cross and Chora Connection have started a cooperation on developing new models for how cultivating the soil in Danish refugee camps can create opportunities for meaningful communities. Through vegetable production and other gardening activities, the project seeks to support training and skills development of the refugees and the surrounding communities, and in this way become a catalyst for sustainable local development. Two refugee camps have already started: One in Jelling near Vejle, and one in Auderød close to Frederiksværk. There is great potential for expanding the project as the Danish Red Cross is in charge of 28 of the 86 refugee camps in Denmark, and most of them are surrounded by nature and fields with – until now – unseen potential for cultivation to the benefit for refugees, employees as well as local communities; through the soil people can build relations across cultures and languages.
LØS Market
A new way of buying food is on its way to Copenhagen. LØS Market will sell organic products that are sold in bulk and without packaging. Food products will be set up in specially designed silos from which you can get the exact amount you wish to buy. You can come with your own jars, containers, or use the pretty jars sold in the shop, or the compostable paper and material bags. This concept is compared to the one we find in sweet shops. Although, instead of sweets, organic cereals, grains, fruits and vegetables, wine, oils, honey, liquid soaps, and much more will be sold.
For wine, oils and soaps, you can bring your own bottle or container or get one in the shop. There will be an intern deposit system for the bottles. It means that you buy a bottle once, fill it with wine or oil, and when you come back to the shop, you exchange it with a new one. (We wash the used bottles at LØS Market with a specific EU certified washing machine.)
Egen Vinding & Datter
Egen Vinding & Datter has since its beginning in 1980 worked on creating environmentally friendly construction methods and products. This is based on the idea that a focus on choice of material and limiting the environmental impact when designing new housing or renovating the existing is not only common sense – it is also economically sound and an insurance for the future generations.
We are a business with attitude, which our name also reflects. We are of the opinion that as business leader and as a human being you are obliged to take social responsibility for the surrounding world. Likewise, our business is founded on mutual confidence between us and the customer.
This means that we consider our activities in the context of society, in which the community has to be prioritised. We are among other thing adhering to the “cradle-to-cradle” approach and focus on what was before we started building and producing materials as well as what comes after – how to take the future into account.