It's nearing the end of Cardiff Universities first sustainability week. At Hoffi we were approached to produce the Online quiz for the weeks events. As someone who is interested in the issues of sustainability I also managed to get to the debate 'eating our way to sustainability'. The event was well attended with some very high profile people on the debating panel. Consisting; Jane Davidson, Minister for the Environment, Sustainability & Housing, Steve Garrett, Chair of Riverside Community Market Association and Dr Pam Robinson, School of Social Sciences to name a few. It was set up in a Question Time style but as with Question Time we seemed to run out of time very quickly, just as it was getting interesting.

The event itself was good, but I think the thing I took most out of it, was a comment from Steve Garrett, when talking about Social Enterprises. He spoke very passionately about how these enterprises have to make money so they are sustainable. Rather than relying on funding, they have to be commercially viable schemes above all else otherwise they shouldn't be done. This reinforced my recent thoughts on work I have been working on with ARK and something I am glad people are beginning to accept and openly talk about rather than being vague about the commercial nature of the projects.