- -: TEDxEast - Alex Petroff - Farming Peace and Ending Poverty, Eastern Congo's Hidden Gem
May 18, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)May 9, 2011- Alex Petroff shares the unlikely journey that led him to build sustainable farms through his 501c(3) Working Villages International.
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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 - Cheryl Rogowski - Being a Family Farmer
June 17, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Cheryl Rogowski is a family farmer and a McArthur Genius Award winner. Watch her moving talk about sustainable farming from a farmer's point of view. More information at www.tedxmanhattan.org About TEDx, x = independently organized event: In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a progr...
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- -: TEDxHalifax - Jason Pelley - Reversive Innovation
July 26, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Jason Pelley became passionate about sustainability, civics and political ecology while attending Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. After working in the green construction industry he became a LEED and sustainability consultant, a writer, researcher and political advisor and has held ...
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- -: TEDxDoiSuthep - Jon Jandai - Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard?
August 3, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Jon is a farmer from northeastern Thailand. He founded the Pun Pun Center for Self-reliance, an organic farm outside Chiang Mai, with his wife Peggy Reents in 2003. Pun Pun doubles as a center for sustainable living and seed production, aiming to bring indigenous and rare seeds back into use. It ...
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- -: TEDxStHilda'sSchool - Lauren McLeish - Donkey Training to Protect Sheep from Predators
August 16, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Lauren McLeish is a Year 8 student at St Hilda's School on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Lauren is a boarder at St Hilda's and comes from a farming community in rural Karara, Queensland. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring ...
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- -: Louise Fresco on feeding the whole world
May 8, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Louise Fresco argues that a smart approach to large-scale, industrial farming and food production will feed our planet's incoming population of nine billion. Only foods like (the scorned) supermarket white bread, she says, will nourish on a global scale. TEDTalks is a daily vi...
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- -: Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish
March 10, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodie's honeymoon he's enjoyed since discovering an outrageously...
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- -: Shimon Steinberg: Natural pest control ... using bugs!
October 28, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDxTelAviv, Shimon Steinberg looks at the difference between pests and bugs -- and makes the case for using good bugs to fight bad bugs, avoiding chemicals in our quest for perfect produce. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED C...
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- -: Birke Baehr: What's wrong with our food system
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 11-year-old Birke Baehr presents his take on a major source of our food -- far-away and less-than-picturesque industrial farms. Keeping farms out of sight promotes a rosy, unreal picture of big-box agriculture, he argues, as he outlines the case to green and localize food produ...
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