What’s wrong with our food system | Birke Baehr | TEDxNextGenerationAsheville

Birke Baehr -“what’s Wrong With Our Food System? And How Can We Make A Difference?” www.tedxnextgenerationasheville.com/ Video by: Twin Path Productions www.twinpathproductions.com

Marketing food to children | Anna Lappe | TEDxManhattan

Author, activist, and Project Director of the Food MythBusters, Anna Lappe takes on the billion-dollar business of marketing junk food, soda, and fast food to children and teens. With diet-related related illnesses alarmingly on the rise, pervasive marketing of junk food to kids is downright dangerous. The food industry says its up to parents to […]

A recipe for cutting food waste | Peter Lehner | TEDxManhattan

According to a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Americans are tossing up to 40 percent of the food supply each year, along with all the resources used to produce food that never gets eaten. Food waste occurs at home, on the farm, and in supermarkets. In this TED Talk, NRDC’s executive director Peter […]

The food we were born to eat: John McDougall at TEDxFremont

www.tedxfremont.com What food habits do all great civilizations have in common? John McDougall suggests that starch-based diets are the foods humans were born to eat. He has been studying, writing, and speaking out about the effects of nutrition on disease for over 40 years and is a bestselling author of several titles, including The Starch […]

Tristram Stuart: The global food waste scandal

Western countries throw out nearly half of their food, not because it’s inedible — but because it doesn’t look appealing. Tristram Stuart delves into the shocking data of wasted food, calling for a more responsible use of global resources. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, […]

How to use data to make a hit TV show | Sebastian Wernicke

Does collecting more data lead to better decision-making? Competitive, data-savvy companies like Amazon, Google and Netflix have learned that data analysis alone doesn’t always produce optimum results. In this talk, data scientist Sebastian Wernicke breaks down what goes wrong when we make decisions based purely on data — and suggests a brainier way to use […]