What’s in each chapter of Kitchen Table Sustainability?
This book is about the critical relationships among three important things in this book: sustainability, communities and community engagement. We see sustainability as the overall goal, communities as the means to achieving that goal and community engagement as the ongoing, underlying process that enables the journey to continue. Thus, in chapters 2 and 3, we discuss these components in this order. At its core, Kitchen Table Sustainability is our approach to community engagement with sustainability, referred to as EATING. Eating is nourishing, nurturing and sustaining. It transforms the bounty of our Earth into energy we can use. It is the most basic human activity and is often done together (at the kitchen table). We introduce the EATING approach in more depth in chapter 4. The EATING approach consists of six components – food groups if you like – Education, Action, Trust, Inclusion, Nourishment and Governance. With respect to community engagement with sustainability, we view each of
