4 Must See Ted Talks
1. Mark Bittman – On What’s Wrong with What We Eat
Food journalist and author, Mark Bittman, discusses the scary truth about the food we eat and the impact it’s having on human health and our plant. He does an excellent job of providing a well-rounded summary without pointing fingers, while also offering a compelling argument towards making small lifestyle changes for a big step towards better health.
2. Ron Finley – A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA
Guerilla gardener, Ron Finley, describes how he took back public space in his hometown of South Central LA, one of the biggest food deserts in California, and used it to grow and provide organic food for the surrounding community.
3. Marla Spivak – Why Bees are Disappearing
Bees scholar, Marla Spivak, explains why bees are vital to human life on earth and why their populations have been in drastic decline over recent years. She lets us know what we can do to help our little pollinator friends so we can all avoid what she describes as a “flowerless landscape” in a “dysfunctional food system”.
4. Pam Warhurst – How we Can Eat our Landscapes
Community activist, cofounder of Incredible Edible, and true inspiration, Pam Warhurst, describes how the landscape of her small British town provides food, a stronger sense of community independence, basic gardening and vegetable education for everyone and anyone, and better overall resilience. Her community benefit society, Incredible Edible, is aimed at providing the same benefits to towns around the world. She says, “If you eat, you’re in”!
Must Read Books
Fatal Harvest
This detailed collection of essays takes an unprecedented look at our current environmentally destructive industrial agricultural system and offers a captivating vision for an organic and ecologically more responsible way of producing our food možete pronaći na ovoj stranici.
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Diet for a Small Planet
The groundbreaking 1971 bestseller, Diet for a Small Planet, is the first major book to note the environmental impact of meat production as a wasteful contributor to global food scarcity. With levels of hunger only getting worse around the world, this book is still a very relevant resource today.
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In Defense of Food
This New York Times bestseller outlines the far too common industrialized Western diet and its detrimental effects on our bodies and culture. Journalist and activist, Michael Pollan, encourages thoughtful food choices for personal empowerment through self-rejuvenation.
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Organic Manifesto: How Organic Food Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe
A deep analysis of the cost conventional, non-organic farming practices are having on both human health and the environment. This book will give you that last little nudge you needed to get you to start shopping organic.
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