Food Footprints: Rethinking How We Eat

August 08, 2014,
5:00pm - 8:00pm

How does the food you eat end up on your table? How far away does it come from? And what impact does your diet have on the environment? Explore these questions and more as we bring together leading experts on urban food systems, sustainable food production, and more to explore the societal and environmental impacts of the things that we eat.

Free with Museum admission.

Presentations by:

JOHN REILLY: Challenges to Sustainable Food Production: A Global Perspective
Co-Director of MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management

EDGAR BLANCO: Fast & Furious: Fresh Produce Supply Chains in Emerging Megacities 
Principal Research Associate, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics and Founder & Director, MIT Megacity Logistics Lab

TIM WISE: Why "We" Won't Feed the World, and How We Could: Getting Real About the Challenges to Ending Hunger
Policy Research Director, Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University; Open Society Fellow

SETH ITZKAN: Greeting from the Paradigm Fence: How the Counter-Intuitive Practice of Restorative Grazing is Increasing Food Production While Drawing Down Atmospheric Carbon
CEO, Planet-TECH Associates

Demonstrations by:

Something GUD - Providers of locally-sourced produce and other food products in the Boston area

Freight Farms - Modular and expandable portable farms built in shipping containers

Six Foods - Healthy, delicious, sustainable foods from insects