Top Environmental/Climate Videos
Leah Penniman | “Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”
March 10, 2020 Some of our most cherished sustainable farming practices – from organic agriculture to the farm cooperative and the CSA – have roots in African wisdom. Yet, discrimination and violence against African-American farmers has led to our decline from 14 percent of all growers in 1920 to less than 2 percent today, with a corresponding loss of over 14 million acres of land.
Winona LaDuke | “Indigenous food sovereignty”
February 6, 2018 Food sovereignty is about having choices. Choices of where your food comes from, how it is produced, and what it is that you eat. For Indigenous peoples, food sovereignty is about health, justice, and tradition. Winona LaDuke has been working on the issues of food sovereignty for over 30 years.
Frances Moore Lappé | “Beyond Hunger: Toward Food Democracy”
January 17th, 2017 Lappe begins exploring “thought traps” that block the pathway to solutions for so many: Primary is the false diagnosis that hunger results from scarcity that has kept the global focus fixed on production, using an industrial-chemical model of farming. She argues that this model itself so concentrates power and undermines food-producing resources that hunger and land and water degradation continue no matter how much is food grown. She underscores how this false frame has also led to agriculture worldwide contributing even more to heating our planet than all transportation causes.
All Environmental/Climate Videos
- Fast Food for Thought 2024
April 16th, 2024 10th annual Fast Food for Thought. Speakers include: Speaker Affiliation Talk Title Resources Benjamin Goldstein SEAS, Sustainable Urban-Rural Futures (SURF) lab “Comparing thecarbon footprints ofurban andconventionalagriculture” Comparing the carbon footprints of urban and conventional agriculture Keith Soster… Read more: Fast Food for Thought 2024 - Blain Snipstal | “Agroecology for the people, for life and Forever!”
April 9th, 2024 In this Food Literacy for All session, Blain Snipstal discussed “Agroecology for the people, for life and Forever!” Register to attend future Food Literacy 2024 sessions here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_diO8D1vIQVezN_hKY3FBhw#/registration - Dianne Glave | “Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Heritage”
April 4th, 2023 In this Food Literacy for All session, Dianne Glave discussed “Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Heritage.” Register to attend future Food Literacy 2023 sessions here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0TGY1FaMRMSW2VzuP2pPDQ - Liz Carlisle and Latrice Tatsey | “Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming”
March 28th, 2023 In this Food Literacy for All session, Liz Carlisle and Latrice Tatsey discussed “Community Food Systems for Climate Justice.” Register to attend future Food Literacy 2023 sessions here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0TGY1FaMRMSW2VzuP2pPDQ - Ozawa Bineshi Albert | “Community Food Systems for Climate Justice“
March 21st, 2023 In this Food Literacy for All session, Ozawa Bineshi Albert discussed “Community Food Systems for Climate Justice.” Talk Description: This talk will explore the relationship between food sovereignty and climate change. As the urgency for action becomes… Read more: Ozawa Bineshi Albert | “<em>Community Food Systems for Climate Justice</em>“ - Sabina Tomkins | “What can we tell about sustainability in food product descriptions and reviews?”
March 14th, 2023 Fast Food for Thought is an annual event where a group of interdisciplinary UM SFSI faculty and staff affiliates give a series of 5 minute talks related to food and/or agriculture. Register to attend future Food Literacy… Read more: Sabina Tomkins | “What can we tell about sustainability in food product descriptions and reviews?” - John Vandermeer | “Coffee, Capitalism, Colonialism, and Coca Cola”
March 14th, 2023 Fast Food for Thought is an annual event where a group of interdisciplinary UM SFSI faculty and staff affiliates give a series of 5 minute talks related to food and/or agriculture. Register to attend future Food Literacy… Read more: John Vandermeer | “Coffee, Capitalism, Colonialism, and Coca Cola” - Andy Jones | “Nudging Michigan Diners Toward Lower Carbon Food Choices”
March 14th, 2023 Fast Food for Thought is an annual event where a group of interdisciplinary UM SFSI faculty and staff affiliates give a series of 5 minute talks related to food and/or agriculture. Register to attend future Food Literacy… Read more: Andy Jones | “Nudging Michigan Diners Toward Lower Carbon Food Choices” - Jennifer Blesh | “Rethinking Soil Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture”
March 14th, 2023 Fast Food for Thought is an annual event where a group of interdisciplinary UM SFSI faculty and staff affiliates give a series of 5 minute talks related to food and/or agriculture. Register to attend future Food Literacy… Read more: Jennifer Blesh | “Rethinking Soil Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture” - Aleya Fraser | “Food Sovereignty and Chocolate“
March 7th, 2023 In this Food Literacy for All session, Aleya Fraser discussed “Food Sovereignty and Chocolate.” Talk Description: We will analyze the 2007 Nyéléni declaration on Food Sovereignty which places the farmer at the “heart of food systems and… Read more: Aleya Fraser | “<em>Food Sovereignty and Chocolate</em>“ - Ashley Gripper | “Lessons from the Planning Process for Growing from the Root: Philadelphia’s Urban Agriculture Plan”
February 21st, 2023 In this Food Literacy for All session, Ashley Gripper discussed “Lessons from the Planning Process for Growing from the Root: Philadelphia’s Urban Agriculture Plan.” Dr. Grip has been a part of the team designing Philadelphia’s first Urban… Read more: Ashley Gripper | “Lessons from the Planning Process for Growing from the Root: Philadelphia’s Urban Agriculture Plan” - Niaz Dorry | “A Revol-Ocean to Take Back Our Ocean and Sea-Based Foods”
February 14th, 2023 In this Food Literacy for All session, Niaz Dorry discussed “A Revol-Ocean to Take Back Our Ocean and Sea-Based Foods.” Whether used, as fertilizer, animal feed, or direct human consumption, seafood is a major part of our… Read more: Niaz Dorry | “A Revol-Ocean to Take Back Our Ocean and Sea-Based Foods” - Vanessa Parish & Sunny Levine | “The Intersections of Queer Food”
February 7th, 2023 In this Food Literacy for All session, Vanessa Parish and Sunny Levine of The Queer Food Foundation discussed “The Intersections of Queer Food.” This discussion explored experiences that food work creates, how queerness is directly impacted in… Read more: Vanessa Parish & Sunny Levine | “The Intersections of Queer Food” - Fozia Ismail | “Food Culture as Companion“
January 31st, 2023 In this Food Literacy for All session, Fozia Ismail discussed “Food Culture as Companion.” This lecture was inspired by work with elders on Somali weaving cultures, much of which is connected to preservation and making of Somali… Read more: Fozia Ismail | “<em>Food Culture as Companion</em>“ - Raj Patel | “The Ants & the Grasshopper Q&A”
January 24th, 2023 In this Food Literacy for All session, Raj Patel discussed the film he co-directed/produced, “The Ants & the Grasshopper”. Raj Patel is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. His first book was Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden… Read more: Raj Patel | “<em>The Ants & the Grasshopper</em> Q&A” - Jessica Kenyatta Walker, shakara tyler, Lilly Fink Shapiro | “Welcome! Roots: Food, Power & the Climate Crisis“
January 10th, 2023 In this kick-off session, the Food Literacy for All leadership team will give a preview of the range of topics and guest speakers who will join us this semester. Register to attend future Food Literacy 2023 sessions… Read more: Jessica Kenyatta Walker, shakara tyler, Lilly Fink Shapiro | “<em>Welcome! Roots: Food, Power & the Climate Crisis</em>“ - Kate Astashkina & Intro to Fast Food for Thought | “Shall We Do Our Groceries Online?”
Kate Astashkina (Michigan Ross) gives a tiny talk titled “Shall We Do Our Groceries Online?” at Fast Food for Thought at the University of Michigan on April 12th, 2022. Introductions by Lilly Fink Shapiro, Sustainable Food Systems, Winona Bynum, Detroit… Read more: Kate Astashkina & Intro to Fast Food for Thought | “Shall We Do Our Groceries Online?” - Sarah Mills at Fast Food for Thought | “Here Come the 1200 Acre Solar Farms. Should We Celebrate or Worry?”
Sarah Mills (Ford School) gives a tiny talk titled “Here Come the 1200 Acre Solar Farms. Should We Celebrate or Worry?” at Fast Food for Thought at the University of Michigan on April 12th, 2022. Introduction by Winona Bynum, Detroit… Read more: Sarah Mills at Fast Food for Thought | “Here Come the 1200 Acre Solar Farms. Should We Celebrate or Worry?” - Nancy Love at Fast Food for Thought | “‘Peecycling’ for Sustainable and Equitable nutriEnt-fooD Systems (SEEDS)”
Nancy Love (Civil & Environmental Engineering) gives a tiny talk titled “‘Peecycling’ for Sustainable and Equitable nutriEnt-fooD Systems (SEEDS)” at Fast Food for Thought at the University of Michigan on April 12th, 2022. Introduction by Margot Finn, College of Literature, Science,… Read more: Nancy Love at Fast Food for Thought | “‘Peecycling’ for Sustainable and Equitable nutriEnt-fooD Systems (SEEDS)” - Lesli Hoey at Fast Food for Thought | “Eating our way out of Climate Change: The Role of University Dining”
Lesli Hoey (Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning) gives a tiny talk titled “Eating our way out of Climate Change: The Role of University Dining” at Fast Food for Thought at the University of Michigan on April 12th, 2022.… Read more: Lesli Hoey at Fast Food for Thought | “Eating our way out of Climate Change: The Role of University Dining” - Derek Van Berkel at Fast Food for Thought | “Why Trees are so Important for Urban Agriculture in Frontline Communities”
Derek Van Berkel (School for Environment and Sustainability) gives a tiny talk titled “Why Trees are so Important for Urban Agriculture in Frontline Communities” at Fast Food for Thought at the University of Michigan on April 12th, 2022. Introduction by… Read more: Derek Van Berkel at Fast Food for Thought | “Why Trees are so Important for Urban Agriculture in Frontline Communities” - Bilal Butt at Fast Food for Thought | “Drought, Famine and Hunger in Drylands”
Bilal Butt (School for Environment and Sustainability) gives a tiny talk titled “Drought, Famine and Hunger in Drylands” at Fast Food for Thought at the University of Michigan on April 12th, 2022. Introduction by Lilly Fink Shapiro, Sustainable Food Systems.… Read more: Bilal Butt at Fast Food for Thought | “Drought, Famine and Hunger in Drylands” - Marcus Coleman and Angela Chalk | “Beginning Farmers, Environment, and Feeding Community”
February 8th, 2022 In this Food Literacy for All session, Dr. Marcus Coleman and Angela Chalk discuss “Beginning Farmers, Environment, and Feeding Community”. Angela Chalk is the Executive Director of Healthy Community Services in New Orleans, an organization that helps… Read more: Marcus Coleman and Angela Chalk | “Beginning Farmers, Environment, and Feeding Community” - Leah Penniman | “Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”
March 10, 2020 Some of our most cherished sustainable farming practices – from organic agriculture to the farm cooperative and the CSA – have roots in African wisdom. Yet, discrimination and violence against African-American farmers has led to our decline… Read more: Leah Penniman | “Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty” - Tiny Talk by Katerina Stylianou | “Should we all Become Vegan?”
Katerina Stylianou (School of Public Health) gives a tiny talk titled “Should we all Become Vegan?” at the 6th annual Fast Food for Thought at the University of Michigan on October 1, 2019. Introduction by Jessica Kenyatta Walker, American Culture.… Read more: Tiny Talk by Katerina Stylianou | “Should we all Become Vegan?” - Tiny Talk by Shelie Miller | “Can Meal Kit Services Actually be Green?”
Shelie Miller (Program in the Environment) gives a tiny talk titled “Can Meal Kit Services Actually be Green?” at the 6th annual Fast Food for Thought at the University of Michigan on October 1, 2019. Introduction by Lesli Hoey, Urban… Read more: Tiny Talk by Shelie Miller | “Can Meal Kit Services Actually be Green?” - Tiny Talk by Marty Heller | “Beyond the Headlines: Addressing the Carbon Footprint of Our Diets”
Marty Heller (School for Environment and Sustainability) gives a tiny talk titled “Beyond the Headlines: Addressing the Carbon Footprint of Our Diets” at the 6th annual Fast Food for Thought at the University of Michigan on October 1, 2019. Introduction… Read more: Tiny Talk by Marty Heller | “Beyond the Headlines: Addressing the Carbon Footprint of Our Diets” - Tiny Talk by Brendan O’Neil | “What do Soil Microbes have to do with Sustainable Food?”
Brendan O’Neill (School for Environment and Sustainability) gives a tiny talk titled “What do Soil Microbes have to do with Sustainable Food?” at the 6th annual Fast Food for Thought at the University of Michigan on October 1, 2019. Introduction… Read more: Tiny Talk by Brendan O’Neil | “What do Soil Microbes have to do with Sustainable Food?” - Paul Greenberg | “Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food”
April 23, 2019 100 years ago, nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild. Today more than half of our seafood is coming from farms. This epochal shift is something we haven’t seen since humans first turned from hunter/gathering… Read more: Paul Greenberg | “Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food” - Anna Lappé | “Island Earth: Chemicals, Climate, and the Future of Eating”
March 12, 2019 In this engaging talk, author and activist Anna Lappé takes us down history lane, from the origins of our chemically dependent, petroleum-addicted agricultural system to the corporate conglomerates who dominate that system today. Lappé traces the many… Read more: Anna Lappé | “Island Earth: Chemicals, Climate, and the Future of Eating” - Elizabeth Yeampierre | “Climate Justice: The Roots Will Weather The Storm”
Feburary 19, 2019 Elizabeth Yeampierre is a internationally recognized Puerto Rican attorney and environmental and climate justice leader of African and Indigenous ancestry born and raised in New York City. She will be spoke about the intersection of climate justice… Read more: Elizabeth Yeampierre | “Climate Justice: The Roots Will Weather The Storm” - “Is Cooking a Poverty Trap for 3 Billion People?” Tiny Talk by Pam Jagger
Pam Jagger (School of Environment and Sustainability) gives a tiny talk titled “Is Cooking a Poverty Trap for 3 Billion People?” at the 5th annual Fast Food for Thought at the University of Michigan on October 9, 2018. Introduction by… Read more: “Is Cooking a Poverty Trap for 3 Billion People?” Tiny Talk by Pam Jagger - “Food, Fish and a Changing Climate” Tiny Talk by Karen Alofs
Karen Alofs (School for Environment and Sustainability) gives a tiny talk titled “Food, Fish, and a Changing Climate” at the 5th annual Fast Food for Thought at the University of Michigan on October 9, 2018. Introduction by Jacob Allgeir, Ecology… Read more: “Food, Fish and a Changing Climate” Tiny Talk by Karen Alofs - Winona LaDuke | “Indigenous food sovereignty”
February 6, 2018 Food sovereignty is about having choices. Choices of where your food comes from, how it is produced, and what it is that you eat. For Indigenous peoples, food sovereignty is about health, justice, and tradition. Winona LaDuke… Read more: Winona LaDuke | “Indigenous food sovereignty” - Panel Discussion | Local, Small Scale Farmers
January 30, 2018 In this panel session, Melvin Parsons, Stefanie Stauffer, Greg Willerer, and Olivia Hubert share their perspectives and experience with food production in Southeastern Michigan. - “Counting Calories and Carbon Emissions of your Diet” Tiny Talk by Greg Keoleian
Greg Keoleian (School for Environment and Sustainability) gives a talk titled “Counting Calories and Carbon Emissions of your Diet” at the 4th Annual Fast Food for Thought. Introduction by Jennifer Blesh, School of Environment and Sustainability - “The Agriculture Climate Change Connection” Tiny Talk by John Vandermeer
John Vandermeer (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) gives a talk titled “The Agriculture Climate Change Connection” at the 4th Annual Fast Food for Thought. Introduction by Mark Wilson, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Epidemiology in School of Public Health - “Pee-Cycling: Creating Sustainable Fertilizer from Urine” Tiny Talk by Will Tarpeh
Will Tarpeh (Civil and Environmental Engineering) gives a talk titled “Pee-Cycling: Creating Sustainable Fertilizer from Urine” at the 4th Annual Fast Food for Thought. Introduction by Ivette Perfecto, School for Environment and Sustainability https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CLk14YkhMs - “Fish Pee: An Asset for Improving Coastal Food Sustainability?” Tiny Talk by Jake Allgeier
Jake Allgeier (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) gives a talk titled “Fish Pee: An Asset for Improving Coastal Food Sustainability?” at the 4th Annual Fast Food for Thought. Introduction by Maren Spolum, School for Environment and Sustainability - “Cultivating Aesthetics to Fertilize Urban Farming” Tiny Talk by Mary Carol Hunter
MaryCarol Hunter (School for Environment and Sustainability) gives a talk titled “Cultivating Aesthetics to Fertilize Urban Farming” at the 4th Annual Fast Food for Thought. Introduction by Monica Dus, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology - “Are Monarch Butterflies Actually Canaries?” Tiny Talk by Mark Hunter
Mark Hunter (School for Environment and Sustainability) gives a talk titled “Monarch Butterflies, Herbicides, and our Food System” at the 4th Annual Fast Food for Thought. Introduction by Meha Jain, School of Environment and Sustainability - Tim Crews | “Can a sustainable food system be economically viable and equitable and ecologically sound?”
“Can a sustainable food system be economically viable and equitable and ecologically sound?” Indigenous cultures around the world offer glimpses into how farming practices and local economies can operate within ecological constraints of particular regions. Dr. Crews will begin by… Read more: Tim Crews | “Can a sustainable food system be economically viable and equitable and ecologically sound?” - Frances Moore Lappé | “Beyond Hunger: Toward Food”
“Beyond Hunger: Toward Food Democracy” Lappe begins exploring “thought traps” that block the pathway to solutions for so many: Primary is the false diagnosis that hunger results from scarcity that has kept the global focus fixed on production, using an… Read more: Frances Moore Lappé | “Beyond Hunger: Toward Food” - “Satellites for Sustainable Agriculture” Tiny Talk by Meha Jain
Meha Jain (School of Natural Resources and Environment, Sustainable Food Systems) discusses using satellites to inform agricultural decisions in India in her talk, “Satellites for Sustainable Agriculture” at the 3rd Annual Fast Food for Thought. Introduction by Joe Trumpey, Stamps School of… Read more: “Satellites for Sustainable Agriculture” Tiny Talk by Meha Jain - “How Will Scaling-up Urban Agriculture Impact Food, Energy, & Water Dynamics?” Tiny Talk by Joshua Newell
Josh Newell (School of Natural Resources and Environment) discusses scaling up urban agriculture in his talk, “How Will Scaling-up Urban Agriculture Impact Food, Energy, & Water Dynamics?” at the 3rd Annual Fast Food for Thought at the University of Michigan. Introduction by… Read more: “How Will Scaling-up Urban Agriculture Impact Food, Energy, & Water Dynamics?” Tiny Talk by Joshua Newell - “Why Food? Why Now?” Tiny Talk by Tom Princen
Lilly Fink Shapiro introduces the 2nd Annual Fast Food for Thought.Tom Princen (School of Natural Resources and Environment) shares hypotheses for “Why Food, Why Now?”
