Videos: TEDxManhattan 2011
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In Harlem, a Business Culture for Healthy Eating – Barbara Askins
TEDxManhattanBarbara Askins is the President and CEO of the 125th Street Business Improvement District in New York City. She talks about the business of food and how it is changing the landscape in Harlem.
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Rebuilding our Food System Infrastructure – Michael Conard
TEDxManhattanMichael Conard, Assistant Director at the Urban Design Lab, part of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, discusses the new distribution systems needed for changing the food system.
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Truck Farm – Ian Cheney
TEDxManhattanCo-Founder of the Brooklyn-based documentary production company, Wicked Delicate, and co-creator of the Peabody award winning film, King Corn, Ian Cheney talks about his new film, Truck Farm.
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Turning the Farm Bill into the Food Bill – Ken Cook
TEDxManhattanPresident of the Environmental Working Group, Ken Cook, discusses the Farm Bill, the massive subsides paid to industrial farmers and how we can all act to help advocate and improve this important legislation.
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Dinner Makes a Difference – Laurie David
TEDxManhattanProducer of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” Laurie David has authored best-selling books, executive produced television specials & documentaries and has been called the Bono of climate change by Vanity Fair. Now she’s bringing it all home to her kitchen table.
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FoodCorps – Curt Ellis
TEDxManhattanFoodCorps: Ask Not What Your Country Can Feed You; Ask What You Can Feed Your Country. Co-Founder of the Brooklyn-based documentary production company Wicked Delicate and co-creator of the Peabody award winning film King Corn, Curt Ellis is now focused on launching the national AmeriCorps school garden program FoodCorps, which promises to combat childhood obesity […]
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From New York to Africa, Why Food is Saving the World – Brian Halweil
TEDxManhattanLong live the Food Movement! Brian Halweil, publisher of “Edible Manhattan,” discusses the problems with the global food system and the solutions he’s found cropping up everywhere.
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The Hidden Price Tag of Industrial Agriculture – Karen Hudson
TEDxManhattanPresident of the Dairy Education Alliance, Karen Hudson, talks about the dangers of industrial agriculture to public health, and how she stood up to stop it.
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Why We Eat the Way We Eat – Scott Kahan
TEDxManhattanDr. Scott Kahan is the Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center in their School of Public Health. He explains how our current food system predisposes us to eating unhealthy food.
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The Measure of All Things – Frederick Kaufman
TEDxManhattanProfessor Frederick Kaufman from the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism discusses the major research projects currently underway to develop actual metrics to define what sustainable food is.
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Local Food Nation – Lucas Knowles
TEDxManhattanLucas Knowles is the USDA Coordinator for “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food.” He demonstrates the huge demand for local sustainable food through three promising approaches.
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Transforming School Food – Kathy Lawrence
TEDxManhattanTransforming School Food: Leveraging the Power of Public Procurement. Kathy Lawrence, Program Director of School Food FOCUS, discusses the broken school food system.