- -: 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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- -: TEDxTerryTalks - Justin McElroy - Media & Their Communities: An Evolution in the 21st Century
February 8, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Justin McElroy discusses media through the lens of the Ubyssey, the University of British Columbia's campus newspaper. Justin McElroy has been Coordinating Editor of The Ubyssey, UBC's student newspaper, since April 2010. In that time, The Ubyssey has redesigned its website, print product, and s...
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- -: TEDxMiddlebury - Jeanne Meserve - Risk and Frisk
February 8, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Content comming soon
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- -: TEDxTrondheim - Eirik Backer - The importance of being naive
February 6, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Eirik Backer is a self-taught designer, web developer and entrepreneur. He talks about the importance of being naive, as a tool to avoid self-constraints in the creative process. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together ...
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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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- -: TEDxManhattan - Paul Lightfoot - BrightFarms: A Produce Supply Chain Revolution
February 6, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Paul Lightfoot is the Chief Executive Officer of BrightFarms, which designs, finances, builds and operates greenhouse farms at grocery retailers, eliminating time, distance and costs from their produce supply chain. With the elimination of shipping, and the drastic reduction of fuel consumption, ...
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- -: TEDxManhattan - Wenonah Hauter - Who Pays the "Farm Bill?"
February 6, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Wenonah Hauter is the Executive Director of Food & Water Watch. She has worked extensively on food, water, environmental and energy issues at the national, state and local level. Experienced in developing policy positions and legislative strategies, she is also a skilled and accomplished organize...
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- -: TEDxManhattan - Urvashi Rangan - From Fables to Labels
February 4, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Urvashi Rangan leads and directs the Consumer Safety and Sustainability Group for Consumer Reports. She is responsible for managing risk analysis, policy assessments, label evaluations and consumer advice for tests, reports, and related advocacy work. Urvashi joined Consumers Union in 1999 and de...
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