- -: TEDxManhattan - Patty Cantrell - New Roads to New Markets
February 10, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Patty Cantrell is a community organizer and a journalist focused on making the business case for local and regional food. As Regional Food Solutions LLC, she works with nonprofit and educational clients to communicate new food and farm business options and public policy directions. She is a membe...
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- -: TEDxEutropolis - Jihyun Ryou - Save food from the fridge: Shaping traditional oral knowledge
February 9, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Although we seem to think and talk about food almost constantly, do we really know how best to preserve it or do we leave this responsibility to technology? Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Jihyun Ryou feels we no longer understand how to treat food. After investigating how to preserve food thro...
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- -: TEDx Manhattan - Cara Rosaen - Why Food Transparency Matters and How RealTimeFarms.com Can Help
February 8, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Cara Rosaen is the Co-Founder of the crowd-sourced nationwide food guide, RealTimeFarms.com. Cara brought her expertise in health behavior change and experience starting two companies of her own to team up with husband Karl, former Google Android senior engineer, to co-found Real Time Farms. With...
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- -: TEDxManhattan - Gary Oppenheimer - AmpleHarvest.org -- A Homegrown Solution to Hunger
February 8, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Gary Oppenheimer, a CNN Hero, Master Gardener, Rutgers Environmental Steward, Huffington Post "Greatest Person of the Day" and 2011 Game Changer, winner of the 2011 Russ Berrie Award for Making a Difference and founder/executive director of the AmpleHarvest.org Campaign. In 1985, MCI asked Gary t...
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- -: TEDxManhattan - Howard Hinterthuer - Veterans Food Production Program
February 8, 2012 (about 12 years ago)TEDxManhattan Challenge Winner! Following a long and amazing career in Public Relations and Marketing Consulting, Howard Hinterthuer tried to retire in his 50's but failed. Since then, Howard has embraced his youthful dreams of growing organic fruits and vegetables, creating music compulsively,...
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- -: TEDxManhattan - Marianne Cufone - Recirculating Farms: Building a Healthy, Sustainable Food Culture
February 8, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Marianne Cufone is the Executive Director of the Recirculating Farms Coalition. She is an environmental attorney, and long time sustainable food advocate. Marianne is a professionally trained health supportive chef. She has worked in natural resources management, focused on oceans, fisheries and ...
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- -: TEDxManhattan - Robert S Lawrence MD - Effects of a High Meat Diet on Public Health
February 7, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Robert S. Lawrence, MD is the Center for a Livable Future Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with joint appointments as Professor of Health Policy, International Health, and Medicine. He is the founding Director of ...
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- -: TEDxManhattan - Mitchell Davis - Tasting Our Way to a Better Food System
February 7, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Mitchell Davis is the executive vice president of the James Beard Foundation, a cookbook author, a food journalist, and a scholar with a Ph.D. in Food Studies from NYU's Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health. His academic work focuses on restaurants, media and taste, particular...
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- -: TEDxManhattan - Kavita Shukla - Can a Simple Piece of Paper Change the Way We Eat?
February 6, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Kavita M. Shukla is the Inventor and Founder/CEO of Fenugreen (www.fenugreen.com), a pioneer in the movement towards sustainable, active, natural food packaging. Fenugreen is addressing the massive, yet often overlooked global challenge of food spoilage (25% of the world's harvest is lost to spoi...
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- -: TEDxManhattan - Kerry McLean - Green Carts: Bringing the Backyard to the Bronx
February 6, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Kerry A. McLean is the Director of Community Development at WHEDco, a 20-year old nonprofit working to create a more beautiful, equitable and economically vibrant Bronx. Kerry directs WHEDco's community planning and revitalization initiatives, including the Green Cart Microenterprise Program, whi...
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