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TEDxWindyCity - 10/06/10
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TEDxWindyCity -- Mari Gallagher -- Food Deserts
by TEDxTalks 9,602 views
Mari 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 Common Good."
Mari Gallagher is principal of Mari Gallagher Research and Consulting Group, a firm whose expertise includes "going green", immigration, health and wellness projects, and -- of course -- food deserts.
She is the author of Examining the Impact of Food Deserts on Public Health in Chicago, a breakthrough study which popularized the term "food desert" across the country, and currently writes for the Huffington Post. Venues that have featured her findings include CNN, National Public Radio, Salon.com, USA Today, The Economist, The Chicago Tribune and The Detroit Free Press.
What is TEDx?
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxWINDYCITY, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxWINDYCITY event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
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18:09
TEDxWindyCity -- Homaro Cantu & Ben Roche -- The Future of Food
by TEDxTalks 13,264 views
Homaro & Ben talk about food replication, the benefits of food recontextualization, and lead the audience through a "flavor-tripping" experience. Homaro Cantu is the owner and executive chef of Moto restaurant, as well as the chairman and founder of Cantu Designs firm in Chicago, Illinois. An inventor, entrepreneur, chef and molecular gastronomer, he became famous for his unconventional approach to cooking -- using a state-of-the-art laboratory based in Moto's kitchen. Ben Roche is the executive pastry chef of Moto Restaurant as well as the director of research and development at Cantu Designs firm. Homaro & Ben collaborate and support eachother's love for science and the culinary arts. Besides working together at Moto and Cantu Designs, they co-host the Green Channel TV show, Future Food,
What is TEDx?
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxWINDYCITY, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxWINDYCITY event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
This independent TEDx event is operated under license from TED. -
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TEDxWindyCity -- Dickson Despommier -- The Vertical Farm
by TEDxTalks 17,182 views
Dickson talks about Vertical Farming: A 21st century hunger and conservation solution that promises, "urban renewal, sustainable production of a safe and varied food supply (year-round crop production), and the eventual repair of ecosystems that have been sacrificed for horizontal farming."
Dickson Despommier is the Emeritus Professor of Public Health and Microbiology at Columbia University, and the vertical farming concept grew out of a medical ecology course he taught in 1999. Articles about the subject have been published in The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, Popular Science, Scientific American and Maxim. In October 2010, his first book on the subject, The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century, was published. More can be learned through his website, verticalfarm.com.
What is TEDx?
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxWINDYCITY, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxWINDYCITY event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
This independent TEDx event is operated under license from TED.
