Submitted by gabrielle on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 20:26
By Rosalin Luetum
On a snowy Saturday morning in January, hundreds of people filled the swank auditorium of The New York Times building for "TEDxManhattan: Changing the Way We Eat." In its second year, TEDxManhattan centers around the sustainable food movement, where inspiring and illuminating talks are given by speakers with various backgrounds in food and farming. Attendees included farmers, philanthropists, academics, educators, students, health professionals, chefs and bakers, while those unable to attend were able to access the day's events via live webcast and local viewing parties. Whether physically present or not, audiences left the storm outside to gather in the hearth of ideas, conversation and inspiration.
Submitted by Jane Shuput on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 12:43
Posted by Ellie Hurley, World Hunger Year
What is now referred to as the global food crisis began quietly enough several years ago. In early 2007 protests over the increased cost in tortillas broke out in Mexico, then there was a whisper of grain and rice exports being restricted in China and Vietnam, and slowly but surely, as the crisis reached America, the prices on our shelves began to increase. This summer somewhere between further protests in Egypt and Haiti, increased fuel costs, and food pantries battling long lines and empty shelves, it became clear that these were not isolated incidents. The world is facing is a food crisis, which if unaddressed, threatens to further weaken economies world wide, further impoverish the poor, and further deplete our waning energy reserve.
