CIVIL SOCIETY: 47 PRACTICES
KETHEA is the largest rehabilitation and social reintegration network in Greece. It has been providing its services to drug addicts and their families since Ithaki, the first Greek therapeutic community, was set up in 1983.
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We cook ecological-climatic food that protects the planet and improves our health. More specifically:
2021-2023
Climate food protects the planet from climate collapse and at the same time improves the health of all of us.
Food which is produced with animal products (milk, eggs, meat, fish) and / or comes from distant areas and / or has a lot of packaging needs more than multiple energy for its preparation and distribution than the local, vegetarian and without packaging food. For example, food from animal products contributes from 18% to 50% to the carbon dioxide emissions that threaten our planet with huge disasters (UN and Worldwatch Institute measurements), while it also has a greater negative impact on health. This type of food needs to be drastically restricted.
The UN Scientific Committee on Climate Crisis has made it clear that by 2030 we must reduce global carbon dioxide emissions by at least 45% to prevent the worst. The time to act and put pressure on governments is NOW. One can not talk about improving one's life or about treatment and rehabilitation when the environment in which one lives is in such serious danger. The changes and disasters are already evident. We are not talking about something in the future but about something that is happening NOW.
People with health problems, people with disabilities and the elderly in particular will be among the first vulnerable groups to suffer the negative effects of climate change.
Young people from all over the world are already taking drastic action and demanding that governments legislate for the planet and take responsibility for it. We all need to act together to maintain balance and life on the planet. We are talking about the life of all creatures and not just the human species.
The action extends in 3 axes:
"You go cooking": Climate-ecological cooking in kitchens of Thessaloniki.
The action started in the kitchen of the Special High School of Thessaloniki, continued in the kitchen of the Therapeutic Community KETHEA ITHAKI, while at the same time, climate cooking days are organized in collaboration with restaurants and taverns of the city. The collaborating taverns, restaurants or gastronomy clubs of Thessaloniki, on the day of the action, create extra climate dishes and recommend them to their customers. An information leaflet is available while people from the collaborating parts are on site to discuss and provide more information on the climate crisis and the group's actions.
"You go cooking": Ecological - Climate cooking at school.
At the Special High School of Thessaloniki, teachers cook ecologically with the students of one or two departments, in the school kitchen. They send the recipes they make by e-mail to the parents and strongly urge them to try to cook them at home. Parents can come to cook with the teachers and children at school. The goal is for this action to spread to other schools in Thessaloniki.
"You go learning": Organizing climate meals at home or in the context of activities of parent associations.
These meals are an opportunity to meet in a joint action - reaction of ordinary people to the climate crisis. An opportunity to discuss, connect and take collective practical steps to protect human life on the planet. We cook with our friends and relatives, talking about climate change, but following the principles of climate cooking.
We have already held such gatherings with our own people in the homes of members and friends of the OUR COMMON NOW team.
The ultimate goal is to integrate more bodies and movements into the circle of groups and bodies.
"It's not the size of the step that matters, but the direction…", Michael White
The Climate Cooking Action "Pas magirevontas" is organized by:
The therapeutic communities of KETHEA suggest - as basic values of their philosophy - respect for all human beings and the environment in which they live. The participants in the therapeutic program KETHEA ITHAKI, through our daily action, we seek change in all areas of life and invest in improving its quality at all levels.
Having been informed about the urgency of the situation regarding the climate crisis, we decided to partner with community spaces and other groups in Thessaloniki and to be part of the solution together.
So we started the effort to inform the general public, through the publication of our action, about basic moves that ordinary people can make in order to burden the environment as little as possible and to help prevent climate catastrophe.
In the first phase, following the example of the Special High School, we organized climate cooking days in the kitchen of ITHAKI and then in collaboration with the other collaborating bodies and restaurants of the city, climate cooking days were implemented, which continue on a regular basis in the restaurants of the city. In the restaurants that are part of the action, a climate menu is proposed on this day and at the same time volunteers inform the customers about the urgency of the climate crisis (relevant information material is also available from the volunteers)
Finally, we will try, with the help of the cooks who have completed their therapy in ITHAKI, to include the climate diet in the monthly scheduled menu of the Therapeutic Community.
