Ali Partovi [ 15 MAR 2015 | Food Security ] I’ve invested a lot of my own money into organic and sustainable farming, and to converting American farmland to organic, and I’m here to dispel some misperceptions about organic food.
Superbugs
Lance Price [ 11 MAR 2014 | Food Security | 13:04 ] I think you’ll see from my talk that Andrew Gunther and I share a mutual respect and perhaps love and maybe some similar slides actually. I was born
Why We Get Fat
Gary Taubes [ 29 JUN 2012 | Obesity Epidemic | 1:10:40 ] Let me just give you a little bit of background before I start and why a journalist is here talking about weight — and why a journalist
Rooftop Farming
Mohamed Hage [ 13 MAY 2012 | Food Security ] I’m an urban farmer. So I grow food in the city of Montréal, on the roofs of buildings, believe it or not. And it’s something that I’m very, very proud
Food Transparency
Cara Rosean [ 8 FEB 2012 | Food Security ] Co-Founder of the crowd-sourced nationwide food guide, RealTimeFarms.com, Rosean leveraged her expertise in health behavior change and experience jumpstarting two companies to team up with husband Karl, former Google Android
Slow Food
Josh Viertel [ 5 MAY 2011 | Food Security ] President of Slow Food USA, Viertel dreams of a world where fruit is cheaper than fruit loops and there are more school gardens than McDonald’s has franchises.
Food Deserts
Mari Gallagher [ 10 NOV 2010 | Food Security ] Gallagher talks about Food Desert awareness and solutions, negligence regarding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and the unapologetic basics of improving public health through “Truth in Data for the
Bitter Sweets
Robert Lustig [ 30 JUL 2009 | Obesity Epidemic | 1:29:36 ] I’m going to tell you, tonight, a story. And this story dates back about 30 years. This story has a little bit of something for everybody. It