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Prince Charles hails Edible Todmorden project
AN 'edible communities' project pioneered in Todmorden will be presented to the Prince of Wales at a sustainability conference.
The idea, named "incredible edible communities", aims to increase local food with steps such as turning public flower beds into vegetable patches and supplying locally laid free-range eggs.
It will be featured along with other projects at a central London conference led by the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) - the Government's independent advisory body on sustainability issues.
The SDC's Breakthroughs for the 21st Century scheme selected 19 ideas which it thinks could make the biggest difference in tackling climate change, depletion of resources and inequality.
Engineering firm Arup's proposal to use fast-growing algae to soak up carbon emissions from power stations and then use the biological material for products such as oil, food and pharmaceuticals also made the list.
So, too, did campaign group Platform's suggestion that the largely public-owned Royal Bank of Scotland should be transformed from the bank most closely associated with the oil and gas industry into investing in projects to tackle climate change.
SDC chairman Jonathon Porritt said: "Some of the breakthrough ideas we've selected represent cutting-edge innovation and imagination; others are familiar but powerful ideas whose time has come."
He said there was now a need to turn the ideas into reality.
During the day the Prince and the Duchess of Cornwall will present campaign medals to men and women from the Commando Helicopter Force at Clarence House.
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