[sudo-discuss] edible education lecture series (free!)

[J Clark]

Thought some sudoers and Omnis would be interested in this free series.

http://food.berkeley.edu/edible-education-101/


*Watch Berkeley's free lecture series on fixing the world's broken food
systems*
/"Eating is, among other things, an ecological act."/
By Vlad Savov
Jan 28 2015
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/28/7927077/berkeley-edible-education-lecture-series

Some of the world's preeminent food policy thinkers and researchers are
taking part in a new Edible Education lecture series at UC Berkeley this
spring semester, and their lectures are being made available to stream
online. Starting this Monday with an introductory note from Michael
Pollan (video above, jump to the 9-minute mark to skip the preamble),
the series will be updated weekly with contributions from Marion Nestle,
Eric Schlosser, and Raj Patel. You can stream those live on the day
itself and participate in a Q&A on Twitter and Facebook, or you can just
pick up the video on YouTube later on.

The decisions made when setting food policy, argues Pollan, have broader
consequences than most of us imagine. "Eating is, among other things, an
ecological act," he says, before detailing some of the more devitalizing
impacts of high-volume agriculture on our environment and ecology. He
also echoes the words of New York Times writer Mark Bittman, another
participant in this Edible Education initiative, in asking for more
political attention to be granted to the centrality of food to so many
issues:

    "These are all related: You can’t address climate change without
fixing agriculture, you can’t fix health without improving diet, you
can’t improve diet without addressing income, and so on. The production,
marketing and consumption of food is key to nearly everything."

The series will run all the way through the end of April, with the final
few lectures looking into ideas for a more sustainable food system that
can serve the planet's population without sapping its resources as
aggressively as the current one.
 
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