The CookCamp un-conference will focus on food and health, bringing together people from diverse backgrounds (health, technology, design, food, politics, business, cooking, and more) to share, create, and learn from one another over the course of a day.
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"
Taking a proactive approach to managing our health, instead of responding to health events as they arise, requires different strategies than those we employ today. CookCamp will focus on the role that food plays in our lives and our health, and enable collaboration between various fields, such as health, technology, public policy, and design, to produce unique and innovative solutions.
Some of the important questions we hope to cover: What does this future require? What are some of the problems we currently face? How can we replace the "Garbage" in "Garbage In, Garbage Out" with a new standard of awesomely tasty food that's good for us? How can we have fun with this?
A little history: CookCamp arose from some discussions during HealthCamp that focused on prevention and behavior change. For this CookCamp we will focus less on food preparation (at least at the venue) and more on the issues surrounding food and cooking (political, social, geographical, ethical). But we will have some healthy food on hand.
Check out the Session Ideas below, add some of your own, and please sign up if you'd like to attend!
Date: Saturday, February 24, 2007
Venue: CitizenSpace
425 Second Street #300
San Francisco, California 94107
CookCamp is free and open.
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Who
Planners -- people who will make it happen -- in random order
Participants = Cookcampers = people who will make it happen
To add your name click on the edit page button above and/or send an email to: cookcamp2007 --at- yahoo --dot- com (the "--" are there to prevent spam)
We'll keep you up to date with the latest CookCamp developments and we promise not to spam you. Adding your name to either list will help us gauge how many people will attend and affect such things as venue, food, essentials, etc. Thanks!
- Dave Chiu, blog
- Ray Seddigh
- Ann Haiden drAnnHaiden
- Sissie Hsiao
- Kevin Braithwaite
- Tracy Ruggles
- Andrius Kulikauskas MyFoodStory, MinciuSodas
- Raines Cohen
Folks who are interested (but not sure yet if they'll make it)
- Tim Bonnemann Blog
- Abe Burmeister blog
- Chris Messina
- Tara Hunt
- Beau Smith
- Margaret Mannion
Regrets
- James Littlejohn blog 8,000km away at present.
Who do you think we should invite?
Add your suggestions to CookCampInvitees
Session Ideas
What do you want to talk about, issues to cover, areas to innovate, etc.? Please add your thoughts below.
- Testing and health: how can we make it easier to find out about health issues? Can we do some testing on-site so people know what goes on? For example, testing for gluten allergy (Celiac Disease) or other food allergies.
- What are some ways we can help people make better decisions in the supermarket?
- Social networking in support of health and nutrition
- Some of the science behind how food works in conjunction with our genes, enzymes, immune system, hormones and whatnot - and how the wrong nutrition can contribute to a variety of very common diseases and chronic health problems - or possibly even things like cancer.
- How we can use technology to make eating right easier. And how to use it to promote the nutritional dialog between health care providers and patients.
- Making sense of organic, pesticides, toxins, and food borne bacteria, etc.
- What all the bacteria that live in the digestive system do with your food, and how they actually produce chemicals that can potentially contribute to health problems and symptoms.
- How we can get better food in our schools?
- Can we make time to get back into our kitchens?
- Understanding connections: Ways to account for the time lag between cause (food, exercise) and effect (health).
- How do you select the accurate information from the mass of (conflicting) data that’s out there?
- Information about raw food diets... what really happens to food at high temperatures? Is it really that bad? Share some raw food recipes or help in making the transition to a raw food diet.
Other Food-Related Issues to Ponder in Addition to Those Related to Health & Nutrition:
- The geography (and geopolitics) of food.
- The source of your food and the economics behind the sytems that bring it to you. I've always wanted to take a single piece of food (like a loaf of bread) and trace all of its ingredients out to their sources.
- Food justice / access (why are there no grocery stores in poor neighborhoods, why do diet-related illnesses such as obesity and diabetes disproportionately affect people of color and the poor?)
- Environmental effects of food production (pesticides, soil erosion, soil nutrient depletion, fossil fuel-based fertilizers, food miles...)
- Food miles and Local Food (how far does food travel from farm to plate?)
- Food safety / security (how can we ensure an ongoing supply of safe, healthy food for all?)
- Fair trade (international AND domestic... how can we make sure that everyone involved in producing food has safe working conditions, and gets a fair share of the profits?)
- Farm-worker issues (safety, pesticides, hours worked, housing, citizenship, etc)
- Industrial food / agribusiness OR small family farms?
- Animal welfare
Info for Presenters
We Need Your Help!
To pull off a successful CookCamp, we're going to need the following...
Please note if you can help with any of this. Are we missing anything?
- More planners
- More participants
- More session ideas!
- Interested sponsors
- Wiki, Wifi (NetworkConfiguration) and Power, Power-strips
- Food and Drinks
- Projector(s), White Boards
- Infrastructure wizards for setting up wifi and mutimedia gear.
- Previous barcamp participants, planners, and aficionados to share their wisdom and help in case participants have questions. And to help the event stay true to the original barcamp vision.
- CookCamp T-shirts or Apron designs!
- Tables, Chairs, Sofas, PoofChairs (could use more furniture!)
- Toilet paper, paper towels and trash bags
Bring
- Computerness
- Healthful Cookingness
- Ideas and demos
- Foods or ingredients? TBD
- Healthful Recipies
- If you have schwag you want to share, this is probably a good place
Discussion and Questions Asked So Far
See CookCampDiscussion
Contact The CookCamp Planners
- Email cookcamp2007 ---at- yahoo --dot- com
Who's talking about us?
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Food-Related Websites and Resources
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