10 videos tagged organic food
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Eric Schlosser
What would a healthy food system look like?
Eric Schlosser says that while his work hasn’t turned him into a vegetarian, it has made him more aware of the provenance of the meat and dairy he consumes. He believes that a…
Recorded: 28 October 2006
Richard Heinberg
How can we relocalize our economies? (Part two)
Professor Heinberg sets out the case for adapting to a future of oil scarcity now. We can do this by replicating agricultural models that use fewer fossil fuel inputs. We can also…
Recorded: 19 October 2005
Bill McKibben
What are the benefits of eating locally produced food?
Bill McKibben describes his experience eating seasonal foods grown locally to his home in Vermont. The benefits of eating fresh local produce are both environmental and surprisingly…
Recorded: 15 October 2005
Erika Lesser
What is the Slow Food movement? (Part One)
Slow Food is a global movement dedicated to the preservation of traditional food culture. In this two-part series Erika Lesser, Director of Slow Food USA, compares slow food with…
Recorded: 11 April 2005
Mae-Wan Ho
Is genetic modification unsafe? (Part Two)
In this two-part series, Dr Mae-Wan Ho describes why Genetic Modification is unsafe. Growing scientific evidence suggests that genes are not permanently fixed, but can change in…
Recorded: 31 January 2005
HRH Prince of Wales
What is the future of food? (part 1)
The Prince of Wales gave this closing speech at the Terra Madre conference in Turin, Italy. The conference, held in October 2004, brought together 5,000 small scale food producers…
Recorded: 23 October 2004
Patrick Holden
What is wrong with intensive farming?
As Director of the U.K.’s largest organic certifier, Patrick Holden talks about the agricultural crisis brought about by fifty years of intensive farming. He describes how…
Recorded: 11 March 2004
Elisabet Sahtouris
Should spirituality and science be unified? (part 2)
In this two-part series Dr. Sahtouris talks about reuniting spirituality with science in order to form a new world view – a world view that shows how humanity is still evolving…
Recorded: 1 September 2003
Helena Norberg-Hodge
What are the benefits of supporting local food? (Part One)
In the first part of this two-part series, Helena Norberg-Hodge talks about the benefits that supporting the local food economy can bring to both consumers and producers. By shortening…
Recorded: 1 September 2002
Helena Norberg-Hodge
What are the benefits of supporting local food? (Part Two)
In the second part of this two-part series, Helena Norberg-Hodge explains why supporting the local food economy needn’t mean we stop buying coffee, tropical fruits and other…
Recorded: 1 September 2002
