Creative Somerville Series with Something GUD: Rebuilding the Local Food System

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Rebuilding the Local Food System
A conversation with Colin Davis, founder of Something Gud
Wednesday, May 20, 7 p.m.
@ Aeronaut Brewing Company (14 Tyler St., Somerville)
Tickets are free, but space is limited, so get yours today.

Colin Davis is a founder, and the CEO of Something GUD, based out of the Aeronuat Foods Hub. GUD enables customers to opt out of the global, corporate food system with weekly home or office deliveries of groceries from local farms, fishermen, bakers and chefs. Colin is also launching an aquaponic (fish + hydroponic vegetable) farm called Redemption Fish Co. and previously started a software company to automate energy efficiency studies of buildings. All of Colin’s projects are based on the goal of using business to build a more sustainable world.

The Creative Somerville Series is a series of “fireside chats” with locals in design, tech, food, social impact and other fields–celebrating the creative and entrepreneurial energy that makes Somerville great. The Creative Somerville Series is not your typical power point and Q&A. Our free fireside chats are about getting to hear someone’s story, learning about how they think and create, and getting to share creative energy and ideas in an intimate setting. The free events are co-curated by Landscape Designer Mia Scharphie and Somerville Beat Founder Elyse Andrews and held at Aeronaut Brewing Company. They are co-sponsored by Somerville Local First and have been featured in BostInno.

Comments

[gruene.livejournal.com]

The "global, corporate food system" has lifted the threat of starvation for billions of people. Eastern Massachusetts is nowhere near capable of feeding its 5 million residents. "Opt out" all you like, but be aware that you're extremely privileged to be able to do so and that encouraging others to do the same is not remotely scalable.

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

opt out of the global, corporate food system

I'm not particularly sympatico with this movement, but that's my problem, not theirs. But I do wish that people would get their rhetoric straight. I'd be very surprised indeed if anyone living in Boston ate only food that was locally produced, for any reasonable value of "local". And if you marked off every supplier that was organized as a corporation (or other limited-liability business structure), you'd probably starve to death.

For instance, if I look up Redemption Fish Co. at the Secretary of State (http://corp.sec.state.ma.us/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSummary.aspx?FEIN=001160760&SEARCH_TYPE=1), I find:

Business Entity Summary
ID Number: 001160760
Summary for: REDEMPTION FISH COMPANY, LLC
The exact name of the Domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC): REDEMPTION FISH COMPANY, LLC
Entity type: Domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC)
Identification Number: 001160760
Date of Organization in Massachusetts: 02-12-2015
Last date certain:
The location or address where the records are maintained (A PO box is not a valid location or address):

Address: 433 CAMBRIDGE ST.
City or town, State, Zip code, Country: CAMBRIDGE, MA 02141 USA
The name and address of the Resident Agent:

Name: ANDREW DAVENPORT
Address: 433 CAMBRIDGE ST.
City or town, State, Zip code, Country: CAMBRIDGE, MA 02141 USA