Sustainability & Food

One area of great concern in the sustainability field is food. Anyone who has seen the documentary Food, Inc. or read Fast Food Nation or The Omnivore’s Dilemma knows this. If you haven’t here’s a little video crash course to stir your mind.

Here is the fascinatingly awesome Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms in Virginia, at the TEDx MidAtlantic event late last year. (can’t embed, must visit link)

Here is chef/food scholar Dan Barber’sTED talk.

Recently, Felix Salmon ran into Barber in Davos, and asked him about the state of agriculture.

Here is The Omnivore’s Dilemma author Michael Pollan’s TED talk, including a piece about Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farm in Virginia.

Finally, here’s Tony Geraci, who is revolutionizing foodservice in the Baltimore City Schools, also from TEDx MidAtlantic.