TEDxManhattan - Stephen Ritz - Green Bronx Machine - Growing Our Way Into A New Economy
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Stephen Ritz is a South Bronx teacher/administrator. With the help of extended student and community family they have grown over 25,000 pounds of vegetables in the Bronx while generating extraordinary academic performance. His Bronx classroom features the first indoor edible wall in NYC DOE which routinely generates enough produce to feed 450 s... Read more
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- -: TEDxManhattan - Stephen Ritz - Green Bronx Machine - Growing Our Way Into A New Economy
January 31, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Stephen Ritz is a South Bronx teacher/administrator. With the help of extended student and community family they have grown over 25,000 pounds of vegetables in the Bronx while generating extraordinary academic performance. His Bronx classroom features the first indoor edible wall in NYC DOE whic...
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- -: Ellen Checks in on Her Triscuit Home Garden
October 12, 2010 (over 13 years ago)A few weeks ago, Ellen learned how to create her own home farm as part of the Triscuit Home Farming Movement. Today she checked in to see how her vegetable were growing -- and was surprised to see their progress...
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- -: TEDxManhattan - Brian Halweil - From New York to Africa, Why Food is Saving the World
April 7, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Long 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. More information at www.tedxmanhattan.org About TEDx, x = independently organized event: In the spirit of ideas ...
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- -: TEDxPresidio - Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez
April 8, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Alex Velez & Nikhil Arora Co-Founders Back to the Roots Nikhil Arora: A Phi Beta Kappa scholar, Nikhil is a May 2009 summa cum laude graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, from the Haas School of Business and Department of Political Science. Prior to founding Back to the Roots in 20...
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- -: TEDxManhattan - Ian Cheney - Truck Farm
May 4, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Co-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. More information at www.tedxmanhattan.org About TEDx, x = independently organized event: In the spirit...
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- -: TEDxManhattan - Kathy Lawrence - Transforming School Food
May 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Transforming School Food: Leveraging the Power of Public Procurement. Kathy Lawrence, Program Director of School Food FOCUS, discusses the broken school food system. More information at www.tedxmanhattan.org About TEDx, x = independently organized event: In the spirit of ideas worth spreadin...
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- -: TEDxManhattan - Challenge
May 18, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)TEDxManhattan challenges you to work with a group of people in your community on a project related to sustainable food and farming. Start a garden at a senior center; start a farmers market; develop a cooking class at your child's school; create a Food Policy Council in your city. Be creative! L...
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- -: TEDxManhattan - Elizabeth Meltz - The Reality of Green Restaurants
May 21, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)There's more to making a restaurant "Green" than installing energy efficient hand dryers. To tell us all about it is Elizabeth Meltz, Director of Food Safety and Sustainability for Mario Batali and Joe & Lidia Bastianich. More information at www.tedxmanhattan.org About TEDx, x = independently o...
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- -: TEDxMileHigh - Theo Wilson (AKA Lucifury) - Garden of the Gaiah
May 27, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Who is the biggest rock star on the planet? Mother Earth, herself, of course. Theo Wilson (AKA Lucifury) delivers a message to honor the planet in the most powerful of ways, through slam poetry. This electric piece will certainly leave you considering your appreciation for "The Garden of the Gaia...
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- -: TEDxPrincetonlibrary-Chris Albrecht -Soil: A Chef's Secret Ingredient
July 4, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Chef Albrecht explains the evolution of his culinary education from traditional gastronomy and training to a real life farm to table vision which links the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment. TEDxPrincetonlibrary About TEDx, x= independently organized event: In t...
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