Critical thinking for sustainable development at the Creemore 100 Mile Store.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Understanding how we can best respond to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals requires a consideration of cases that strive, at least in part, to embody critical thinking and to challenge dominant power relations. The paper reports on a study with women involved with the 100 Mile Store in Creemore, Ontario, Canada, which sells predominantly locally sourced, organic, and fair-trade products to tourists and residents. We explored the origins of the store as well as participants’ involvement and perceptions of its transformative impact. Key findings include an understanding of how the store began as a women-only enterprise, which can be viewed as an effort to resist neo-liberal and patriarchal business models. We also gained insights into what participants described as a growing critical awareness about the impacts of industrialized food systems and issues of environmental and community sustainability, as well as a desire to develop and support alternatives. Importantly, participants engaged in critical thinking when they supported and challenged the store’s ability to address these issues in a meaningful way. We discuss the implications by engaging Epp’s (2016) notion of incremental radicalism and identify lessons for better understanding how locally-driven sustainable development initiatives can inspire more opportunities to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. Keywords: local food, radical incrementalism, rural women, food patriotism, SDGs Canada ____________________________ Pensee critique pour le developpement durable au magasin 100 Mile de Creemore Pour comprendre comment nous pouvons le mieux repondre aux objectifs de developpement durable des Nations Unies, nous devons examiner les cas qui s’efforcent, au moins en partie, d’incarner la pensee critique et de remettre en question les relations de pouvoir dominantes. Cet article rend compte d'une etude aupres de femmes impliquees dans le 100 Mile Store a Creemore, en Ontario, au Canada, qui vend principalement des produits locaux, biologiques et equitables aux touristes et aux residents. Nous avons explore les origines du magasin ainsi que l'implication et la perception des participants de son impact transformateur. Les principales conclusions comprennent une comprehension de la facon dont le magasin a commence comme une entreprise reservee aux femmes, ce qui peut etre percu comme un effort pour resister aux modeles commerciaux neoliberaux et patriarcaux. Nous avons egalement acquis un apercu de ce que les participants ont decrit comme une prise de conscience critique croissante des impacts des systemes alimentaires industrialises et des questions de durabilite environnementale et communautaire, ainsi que le desir de developper et de soutenir des alternatives. Il est important de noter que les participants ont adopte une pensee critique lorsqu'ils ont soutenu et conteste la capacite du magasin a resoudre ces problemes de maniere significative. Nous discutons des implications en engageant le concept de Epp (2016) de radicalisme incremental et en comprenant les lecons pour mieux comprendre comment les initiatives de developpement durable conduites localement peuvent inspirer plus d'opportunites pour atteindre les objectifs de developpement durable. Mots-cles: alimentation locale, incrementalisme radical, femmes rurales, patriotisme alimentaire, ODD Canada
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.037 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".