Abstract
This paper describes the backgrounds, process, outcomes, and characteristics of “Clean plate” movement carried out in Korea. That was aimed at the reduction of food waste production as well as developing and disseminating a sustainable life style. Excessive foods are wasted every year in Korea and it reaches to 270 g/day/capita. Clean plate movement was started 2004 and over 1.5 million peoples, which is 3% of the population, did pledge for 15 months. Over one million students participated in the pledge campaign and they became conscious about the importance of food and get sustainable eating habit in which they don’t leave any food behind. While the campaign carried out successfully, civil volunteers of a Buddhist NGO EcoBuddha, who were the housewives mainly, were in charge of the whole processes and were trained as civil leaders for sustainable development. They awakened to the interrelationship between human being and the nature, based on a series of Buddhist lectures and self practicing asceticism. Clean plate movement as an educational program for sustainable development has various factors in three pillars of environmental, economical and socio-cultural aspects for EfSD.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Lappe, F.M., Collins, J.: World hunger: twelve myths. Grove press, New York (1986)
Kronenberg, J.: Making consumption reasonable. Journal of Cleaner Production 15(6), 557–566 (2007)
Zadek, S., Amalric, F.: Consumer works. Development 41, 7–14 (1998)
Shaw, D., Newholm, T.: Voluntary simplicity and the ethics of consumption. Psychology and Marketing 19(2), 167–185 (2002)
Schor, J.: The overspent American. Basic Books, New York (1998)
Durning, A.: How much is enough? The consumer society and the future of the earth. Earthscan, London (1992)
Papanek, V.: The green imperative. Thames and Hudson, London (1995)
Myers, K.: Under-stains: And the sense and seduction of advertising. Comedia, London (1986)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Choi, K.S., Kim, S.W., Jung, S.Y., Choi, B.D., Mun, S.J., Lee, D.H. (2010). Clean Plate Movement and Empowerment of Civil Leadership for Developing Sustainable Life Style. In: Lytras, M.D., Ordonez de Pablos, P., Ziderman, A., Roulstone, A., Maurer, H., Imber, J.B. (eds) Organizational, Business, and Technological Aspects of the Knowledge Society. WSKS 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16324-1_47
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16324-1_47
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-16323-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-16324-1
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)