Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Changing the Way We Eat

Date: Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Location: Webcast

Contact: Diane Hatz, Director, Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming, dhatz@glynwood.org, (845) 265-3338

Leopold Center Distinguished Fellow Fred Kirschenmann presented "Soil: From Dirt to Lifeline" at the second annual TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat” on January 21 at the Times Center in New York City.

Watch Kirschenmann's 15-minute presentation

Soil: From Dirt to Lifeline

Watch other talks here

This independently organized, one-day event licensed by TED explores the issues, impacts and innovations happening in the US food system as we shift to a more sustainable way of eating and farming as well as to help create connections between different areas of the food movement. The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming is the lead sponsor for “Changing the Way We Eat.”

Here's the world-class line-up of inspiring speakers from all disciplines of the sustainable food world:

  • Patty Cantrell, Organizer, Regional Food Solutions   
  • Marianne Cufone,  Executive Director, Recirculating Farms Coalition 
  • Mitchell Davis, Vice President, The James Beard Foundation 
  • Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director, Food & Water Watch
  • Howard Hinterthuer, Co-founder, Organic Therapy Program
  • Michelle Hughes, Director of GrowNYC’s New Farmer Development Project
  • Dr. Robert Lawrence, Center for a Livable Future Professor, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy, and International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine  
  • Paul Lightfoot, Chief Executive Officer, BrightFarms 
  • Kerry McLean, Director of Community Development and Green Cart Program at WHED
  • Gary Oppenheimer, Founder, AmpleHarvest.org 
  • Wayne Pacelle, President & CEO, The Humane Society of the United States 
  • Cara Rosaen, Co-Founder, Real Time Farms 
  • Urvashi Rangan, Director of Consumer Safety and Sustainability Group Consumers Union 
  • David Wallinga,  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Other information

Changing the Way We Eat website

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