Mural on 7th street at Tompkins Square Park – Joe Strummer
This is a piece I wrote for the Environmental Media Association’s newsletter (I added in the hyperlinks) – you can find the whole newsletter online at http://www.ema-online.org/emails/2010/april/index.htm or just read this online at http://www.ema-online.org/emails/2010/april/index.htm#article-6 JAMIE OLIVER AND TED |
| By Diane Hatz
This year’s TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference was deliciously full of sustainable food talk, from chef/Blue Hill restaurant owner Dan Barber’s love affair with a fish to cancer researcher William Li’s talk about which local, sustainable foods will help prevent cancer. But the highlight of the event, which ran February 9 – 13 in Long Beach and Palm Springs, was Jamie Oliver’s TED prize speech and wish. Every year, the TED prize is awarded to an exceptional individual who receives $100,000 and “One Wish to Change the World”. This year, Oliver’s wish is “for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.” Oliver is known for his bestselling cookbooks, award-winning TV shows and for changing the school lunch program in Britain. He has now landed on American soil and is taking on the childhood obesity epidemic here, partly through his new ABC television show and partly through winning this year’s TED prize. The plan is to “set up an organization to create a popular movement that will inspire people to change the way they eat. The movement will do this by establishing a network of community kitchens; launching a travelling food theater that will teach kids practical food and cooking skills in an entertaining way and provide basic training for parents and professionals; and bringing millions of people together through an online community to drive the fight against obesity. The grassroots movement must also challenge corporate America to support meaningful programs that will change the culture of junk food.” |
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This is the press release that went out recently announcing the official launch of The Glynwood Institute.
Contacts:
Geralyn Delaney Graham, geralyn@resourcescommunications.com, direct 281. 980. 6643 | mobile 917. 826. 5094
Diane Hatz, The Glynwood Institute, dhatz@glynwood.org, mobile 917.848.1081
For Release: April 14, 2010
The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming www.GlynwoodInstitute.org
Co-Founder & Director Diane Hatz, former founder/director of Sustainable Table, and Co-Founder and Glynwood President Judith LaBelle envision the Institute as a “creative action tank” that finds realistic solutions to critical problems in food and farming.
Cold Spring, NY – In celebration of the upcoming 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, Glynwood is pleased to announce the launch of its new division, The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming.
“Our vision is to shift the U.S. from an industrial-based system of agriculture to a regional, sustainable food supply,” says Co-Founder & Director of The Glynwood Institute Diane Hatz. “One where healthy, nutritious food is accessible to all.”
“To do that,” says Co-Founder and Glynwood President Judith LaBelle, “we support leaders in sustainable food and farming and also develop projects that help communicate or raise awareness about today’s food.”
Innovation + Awareness = Change
At the heart of The Glynwood Institute is the Innovation Program, where selected leaders or emerging leaders within the sustainable food and farming movement are supported as they develop, launch or promote a project that addresses a critical need or issue within the field. In addition, The Institute helps develop marketing and communications strategies to educate, raise awareness about, or expand the Innovators’ work.
I’m happy to announce that as of March 1st, I officially became the Co-Founder & Director of The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming. The Institute is part of Glynwood, based in Cold Spring, NY. I’ll still be living and working from New York City, but I also have an office at Glynwood, a 225-acre farm on some of the most gorgeous land in the Hudson Valley. We officially launch toward the end of April – we’re hoping April 20th will be the date – it’ll depend on when the website can launch.
As part of the Institute, we have an Innovation Program, where we’ll be supporting Innovators in the sustainable food and farming field – the first Innovators are Anna Lappe, who’s Diet for a Hot Planet is out now, and myself.
I’ve pasted a one pager below and will make sure to put up the press release for the launch when we get it finalized. And there might even be a Glynwood blog sooner than later, where I can also keep you up to date with what we’re doing. Stay tuned!
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The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming
Mission: To address critical issues in food and farming by supporting the work of existing and emerging leaders and leveraging their collective creative power to develop and implement innovative marketing and communications strategies for solution-based projects.
The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming is an incubator for ideas and action, a “creative action tank” that develops and implements realistic solutions to critical issues within the food system. The Institute collaborates and networks with like-minded groups to elevate the sustainable food and farming movement into mainstream awareness as well as to provide tools and resources to help individuals and groups working on projects in food and farming.
The goals of The Glynwood Institute are to:
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Dan Barber’s talk at the TED conference this year was one of the best of the event – brilliant and a must see!
Dan Barber: How I Fell in Love with a Fish
April Davila decided she wanted to go one month without consuming any Monsanto products, and it’s turning out to be more difficult than she realized. Follow her this month as she tries to find something to consume….
I found someone who transcribed part of Seth Godin’s 2009 TED talk on tribes….
….”The Beatles did not invent teenagers. They merely decided to lead them. That most movements, most leadership that we’re doing is about finding a group that’s disconnected but already has a yearning. Not persuading people to want something they don’t have yet.
When Diane Hatz worked on The Meatrix, her video that spread all across the internet about the way farm animals are treated, she didn’t invent the idea of being a vegan. She didn’t invent the idea of caring about this issue. But she helped organize people, and helped turn it into a movement.
Hugo Chavez did not invent the disaffected middle and lower class of Venezuela. He merely led them.
Bob Marley did not invent Rastafarians. He just stepped up and said, “Follow me.”….”
You can watch the full talk on the TED website.
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