Food Carts Speak is grassroots, globally scalable fund-raising model which charitably resources the food cart phenomenon.
The open-sourced model disclosed in this blog is free and for everyone to use to empower themselves, their local businesses and their communities. It is also possible to be implemented on a larger scale such as in major chains and corporations.
Please feel free to leave comments, concerns or considerations about this process or its model. Thank you very much.
Ethan Swift
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It is amazing to see the impactfull real-world results from determined and sustained practice of our beliefs and ideals.
ReplyDeleteRarely have I seen major change come as a result of a single transformative event. Systemic change happens when we are able to use the tools and programs that already exist for a more enduring and beneficial cause. Civil Rights used an an open source of ideas and ideals to help initiate change through the same legal and political sources that had been constructed against minorities.
With food cart speaks, I see the opportunity to use a corporate structure (one that in modern times has often limited creativity with and access to food)to encourage a connected, vital grassroots relationship between the public at large and the food that sustains them.
J.W.
I have grassroots ideas!
ReplyDeleteWhere I am presently, in India, food on the streets, both in carts and not, has been around for eons.
There are so many ideas for international street food to be shared.
Like: Why are there not street food recipes from around the world being sold in food carts? Why do we try to cook up full courses from around the world instead? (ie I go to the Thai cart and get what I'd order in a Thai restaurant instead of what I'd find on a Thai streetcorner).
I would love to see the fresh fruit stand phenomenon so common here in India happening in pdx. It doesn't have to be papaya! Give me apples and strawberries or huckleberries someone picked from the mountains even better...
And a decent tea stand that wasn't like 4 bucks for a drink. That reincarnated those disposable little clay cups that used to be all over India as "disposable," (you throw them on the ground and with a little rain they just become dirt again, magic)...for a .50 cent cup of chai or piping hot xzy fad coffee bean brewed in xzy way) totally green, sustainable and cheap (and fun to make little cups)...
I'm thinking of the equivalent of rice and banana leafs here there (maple leafs, maybe?)...sustainable, using NATURE (not "corn based disposable xzy, though I'm so happy those exist), things that don't require so much processing. (Let's think like we don't have factories).
I think it would be cool to see an international food cart collective evolve. Maybe food cart experts can travel and work in one anothers carts all around the world. And share world food better that way.
angel