Videos
Watch videos of the sold-out Food for Thought discussions with Alice Waters, Carlo Petrini, Michael Pollan and others. Grab a glass of tap water and cozy up to the screen!
A New, Fair Food System
This panel focuses on current conditions and the future potential for the millions of men and women who harvest and process the food we eat each day. Find out how we can create a system in which eating well and treating people right lead to success, sustainability and profitability for all.
Featuring: Lucas Benitez and Greg Asbed, representing the Coalition of Immokalee Workers; Jose Padilla, Executive Director, California Rural Legal Assistance; Agustin Ramirez, ILWU Northern California Lead Organizer; and Maricela Morales, representing CAUSE, the Central Coast Alliance United for A Sustainable Economy. Moderated by Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation.
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Building a New Food System: Policy and Planning
Learn from leaders in the field as they explore the first steps that governments—from municipal to state and beyond—can take to support and build a sustainable food system.
Featuring: AG Kawamura, Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture; Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, NYU; and Andrew Kimbrell, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Food Safety; and Paula Jones, Director of San Francisco Food Systems. Moderated by Timothy LaSalle, Executive Director of the Rodale Institute.
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Climate Change and Food
This panel focuses on future food production and the importance of land stewardship, biodiversity, urban planning and much more. Learn as the panel discusses how climate change impacts our food system.
Featuring: Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club; Wes Jackson, Ph.D., author and President and Founder of The Land Institute; Aaron (Ari) Bernstein, MD, co-author of Sustaining Life with Eric Chivian, MD; Patrick Holden, Director of the Soil Association; and Anna Lappé, author and co-leader of the Small Planet Institute. Moderated by Mark Hertsgaard, journalist and author of the forthcoming Living Through the Storm: Our Future Under Global Warming.
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Edible Education
Understand the potential and challenges of creating a national policy around Edible Education—a means of educating all children about stewardship, sustainability and the connections between food, health and the environment.
Featuring: Alice Waters, founder of Slow Food Nation, international vice president of Slow Food, owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant and founder and president of the Chez Panisse Foundation and featuring Dr. Tony Recasner head of Green Charter and New Orleans Charter Middle schools; Van Jones, Founder and President of Green For All; Craig McNamara, President and Founder at Center for Land-Based Learning; and Josh Viertel, Director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project.
Moderated by Katrina Heron, writer, editor and a Director of the Chez Panisse Foundation.
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Re-Localizing Food
This panel explores the challenges of building a local food system and compares the environmental and social impacts of both a local and global approach to food.
Featuring: Michael Pollan, author, In Defense of Food and the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism; Dan Barber, Chef & Co-Owner of Blue Hill Restaurant and Creative Director of Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture; Gary Nabhan, Founder, Renewing America’s Food Traditions (RAFT) Alliance; and Winona LaDuke, Native American activist, environmentalist, economist, author and Founding Director of White Earth Land Recovery Project (WELRP). Moderated by James Oseland, Editor, Saveur.
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The World Food Crisis
Listen to four of the foremost authorities as they discuss the impact of the industrial food production system that has left communities worldwide in the grip of hunger and dire food shortages.
Featuring: Vandana Shiva, physicist, environmental activist and author; Carlo Petrini, founder of the International Slow Food Movement; Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved; and Corby Kummer, journalist and author of The Pleasures of Slow Food.
Moderated by Michael Pollan, author, In Defense of Food, and the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.
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Slow Food Nation Closing (1 of 2)
Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva, Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, Eric Schlosser and Carlo Petrini join together in conversation about the local, national and global impact of the philosophy and practice of Slow Food. Moderated by Corby Kummer, author of The Pleasures of Slow Food.
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