This week the Governor of Oregon, John Kitzhaber, signed legislation allowing fish, previously going to waste, to feed the hungry instead. The new law allows bycatch, fish caught unintentionally while fishing for other species, to be processed for food bank distribution. As Gov. Kitzhaber puts it “This innovative solution helps the fishing industry and food processors to reduce waste while bringing food to people who are hungry.”
We definitely need more state officials thinking like him.
TEDxManhattan is pleased to launch the TEDxManhattan Challenge – we challenge you to work with a group of people in your community anywhere in the United States 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!
Let us know what you’re doing to change the way you eat in your community – the project deemed the most impactful will win the opportunity to speak live on the 2013 TEDxManhattan stage. You can watch our 2012 winner, Howard Hinterthuer, speak about the Veteran’s Food Production Program/Organic Therapy Project.
Rules:
• You can develop a new project or work on an already existing one. The judges will be looking for impact, not size, so develop a project that will have a positive impact in some part of your community.
• You must work with other people in your community. (You can define community as you see fit.)
• You must register your project at www.tedxmanhattan.org/challenge.
• You must create a name for your project.
• Applications must be received by October 1, 2012.
• Your project does not have to be completed by the end of the year, but you must have had some type of impactful result from your work by that time.
• A number of finalists will be chosen by October 15, 2012. Finalists will be required to send a follow-up report by November 1, 2012. Winner will be announced in December.
• The project deemed the most impactful will be given at least three minutes at the TEDxManhattan 2012 event. Only one person can speak from stage.
• Everyone who applies agrees to have their information on the TEDxManhattan website and gives TEDxManhattan permission to publicize/promote the projects underway.
Please note: The prize is the chance to speak on stage and one free ticket for the day. The winner will be responsible for transportation to and from the event.
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Food Revolution Day is the Jamie Oliver Foundation and Jamie Oliver Food Foundation’s first-ever global day of action. It is a chance for people who love food to come together to share information, talents and resources; to pass on their knowledge and highlight the world’s food issues. It’s about connecting the community through events at schools, restaurants, local businesses, dinner parties and farmers’ markets. The Foundations want to inspire change in people’s food habits and to promote the mission for better food and education for everyone.
Dinner and Some Ed is an effort to raise awareness (and to enjoy!) local sustainable food by hosting a meal and showing a TED or TEDx video on food and farming. “Dinner” is a relative term- this can also be done as a brunch, lunch, picnic, or potluck. The key is just to have a computer or a mobile device where you can watch the talks while enjoying delicious, sustainable food.
Dinner and Some Ed came out of a project called Tedibles at TEDActive in Palm Springs, CA, in 2012. It is an effort to bring sustainable food to the extended TED community (meaning anyone who’s ever watched a TED talk).
Food Revolution Day on May 19th is the perfect time to host your first dinner and to join the global movement. Continue reading
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Dinner and Some Ed is a new Glynwood Institute initiative that aims to raise awareness, and enjoyment, of local, sustainable food. People are encouraged to host a meal made from local, sustainable food and show a few videos, with a highlight being TEDTalks both on TED.com and the TEDx Channel. What makes Dinner and Some Ed different is the TEDTalk can serve as the catalyst for conversation, leading to the sharing of ideas and knowledge.
The first Dinner and Some Ed party was held on Earth Day, you can read about it here.
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According to the Economic Research Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 14.5% of U.S. households (17.2 million households or 48.8 million Americans) were food insecure in 2010. That means that 17.2 million homes in the U.S. had difficulty at some point during the year in providing enough food due to a lack of resources. That left 16.2 million children under the age of 18 – more than 1 out of 6 – hungry and unable consistently to find adequate, healthy food.
During the same year – 2010 – more than 34 million tons of food waste was generated in the United States. After paper, this is the second largest amount of waste generated. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, “Food waste accounted for almost 14 percent of the total municipal solid waste stream, less than three percent of which was recovered and recycled in 2010. The rest —33 million tons— was thrown away, making food waste the single largest component of MSW (municipal solid waste) reaching landfills and incinerators.”
Some food waste is inevitable, but in a developed country where 33 million tons of food is wasted in a year, how can we still have hungry people? The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming is looking at the food waste problem to see what’s wrong and what we as consumers can do to lessen our impact on the environment and to help US citizens find consistent access to healthier food.
Stay tuned – a website is underway and will be up in several months. We will have more information for you shortly, and we will keep you updated on our progress and anything interesting we find here on the Guide to Good Food blog.
Watch TEDxManhattan online at www.livestream.com/tedx on January 21st from 10:30am – 5:15pm est.
Find out more on the Media page on the TEDxManhattan website.
Host a viewing party for TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat”! It’s simple – invite some friends over and together watch the video at www.livestream.com/tedx on January 21st from 10:30am – 5:15pm EST. You can email and send us photos throughout the day – we’ll read selected emails out to the audience. Join us!
TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat” planning is well underway, with 14 speakers confirmed, the venue in place and food details underway. We’ve also chosen our five finalists for the TEDxManhattan Challenge – we challenged people last year to work in their community anywhere in the United States on a project related to sustainable food and farming.
We received around 40 applications from all over the country and have narrowed it down to the final five. The winner will get to speak live from stage at the 2012 TEDxManhattan event. If you would like to vote for your favorite, please email your choice by December 5th to TEDxManhattanChallenge@gmail.com.
We’re also encouraging everyone to set up a local viewing party to watch the event live – if you’d like to watch, please tune in to our broadcast on January 21st at www.livestream.com/tedx. Better yet, set up a viewing party in your neighborhood and invite friends over to watch the talks with you. You can find out more information about viewing parties and setting one up at http://tedxmanhattan.org/viewing-parties/.
The five TEDxManhattan Challenge finalists are:
1. Natasha Bowens, The Color of Food – http://thecolorofood.org/home.html She’s spent the past year creating a space for farmers and food activists of color to connect, work together and share stories, history and traditional knowledge. The Color of Food is a space to raise the voices of communities of color in the movement for food justice.
2. Rick Nahmias, Food Forward – http://foodforward.org/ In 2.5 years they have become Southern California’s largest backyard harvesting for the hungry NPO. Food Forward organizes corps of between 3 and 300 volunteers to harvest excess food from private homes and public spaces, donating 100% to the hungry.
3. Amie Hamlin, New York Coalition for Healthy School Food – http://www.healthyschoolfood.org/ New York Coalition for Healthy School Food has been working with the New York City Office of SchoolFood (they spell it as one word) in a formal partnership for the last few years to develop and introduce plant-based entrees to serve as the protein component in school lunches. They are doing this in 18 schools and have a waiting list of 48 schools.
4. Howard Hinterthuer, Veteran’s Food Production Project
http://www.wuwm.com/programs/news/view_news.php?articleid=9474 Their organic therapy project for veterans, now in its fourth year, is transitioning into a food production program designed to supplement and eventually replace food that they currently purchase through vendors.
5. Billy Mawhiney, Fresh Mitchell – http://freshmitchell.info/ Fresh Mitchell is a group aimed at changing the way rural Mitchell, South Dakota, eats. They began marketing their Farmers Market, got accepted for SNAP and credit cards, and began a CSA through a 5th generation farm about 30 miles away (called the Goosemobile). They recently hosted their first Fall Harvest Celebration, a night of Old Fashioned fireside stories from the South Dakota food movement to raise funds for an edible classroom, demo area for the market and CSA support.
Please email your favorite finalist by December 5th to TEDxManhattanChallenge@gmail.com.
In order to “Change the Way we Eat” we must first change the way we think about food and farming. We are nation of cat and dog lovers but conveniently, or innocently, ignore the way farm animals are treated. On January 21, 2012 Wayne Pacelle will talk about the protection of animals at TEDxManhattan.
Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, leads the nation’s largest animal protection organization with 11 million members and constituents. The organization is the 155th largest charity in the United States. During his tenure, Pacelle has nearly doubled the size of the organization and, through corporate combinations with groups such as The Fund for Animals and the Doris Day Animal League, built unity and greater efficiency within the animal protection cause.
He has led successful efforts to pass hundreds of new state and federal laws to protect animals, expanded The HSUS’s animal care operations, and worked with dozens of corporations to enact operational changes that benefit animals. Pacelle was named one of NonProfit Times’ “Executives of the Year” in 2005 for his leadership in responding to the Hurricane Katrina crisis.
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On Saturday, January 21, 2012, TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat” will be held at the Times Center in New York City. This one-day TEDx event will explore the food system — from what happened, to where we are, to what we are doing to shift to a more sustainable way of eating and farming. The goal of “Changing the Way We Eat” is to create new synergies, connections and collaborations across disciplines, to unite different areas of the food movement and to introduce the TEDx audience to the exciting and innovative work being done in this field. The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming is the lead sponsor for TEDxManhattan.
Please visit the TEDxManhattan website to fill out an application to attend the event. Please note that applying does not guarantee admittance. We will let you know in late October if we’ll be able to accommodate you.
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