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Daniel Hartwell began his 40-year career launching bands, and sold over a million tickets to performances by Alice Cooper, Alice in Chains, Kid Rock, Staind, and Dora the Explorer. He founded the wildly popular LocoBazooka music festivals in the northeast. Recently, he met with Ringo Starr and presented him with a signed copy of the book, Saint John Lennon. Daniel is …
Jessie studied Agricultural Development at Cornell University with a focus on sustainable agriculture and community development. She has spent time working on organic and biodynamic urban and rural farms in the United States and abroad. Jessie is also the manager of an urban farm in Bushwick called Feedback Farms, which is a member of the NYC AgTech Collective. She is the Project Manager at Foodshed.io, overseeing daily operations. She also works …
Mary Lawrence – Author of Eat Vegan with Me: Creating Community Through Conversation and Compassionate Cuisine Author bio: Author Mary F. Lawrence is a vegan chef and wellness educator who works with a variety of clients, including self-described omnivores who enthusiastically proclaim that they never knew vegan food could taste this good! She is a board member of the American Vegan …
Download this episode (right click and save)The Most Serious Public Health Crisis No One Knows About with Arthur Firstenberg Arthur Firstenberg is a scientist and journalist who is at the forefront of a global movement to tear down the taboo surrounding the subject of Electropolluton.. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University with a degree in mathematics, he attended …
Dr. Thomas Campbell is the medical director of the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies and the co-founder and clinical director of the University of Rochester’s program for Nutrition in Medicine, a groundbreaking, clinical oriented approach to prevention and treatment of illnesses through diet and lifestyle changes. He is a co-author with his father, the renowned Cornell University nutritional …
Rodney Dietert is Professor of Immunotoxicology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He received his PhD in immunogenetics from the University of Texas at Austin. Among his authored and edited academic books are Strategies for Protecting Your Child’s Immune System and Immunotoxicity, Immune Dysfunction, and Chronic Disease. Rodney previously directed Cornell’s Graduate Field of Immunology, the Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors, and the Institute for Comparative and Environmental Toxicology, and he has served as a Senior Fellow in the Cornell Center for the Environment. Recently, he appeared in the 2014 award-winning documentary Microbirth. In 2015 he received the James G. Wilson Publication Award from the Teratology Society for the best paper of the year on the microbiome
In 2015 the world came together to agree the landmark Paris Climate Agreement aimed at keeping global temperature rises to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. And just in time: we are facing a climate crisis. 2016 is set to be the hottest year on record and greenhouse gas emissions globally are still not falling. We are seeing the impacts of …
On August 1, it will be 60 years since I came to Cornell University to do graduate studies in nutritional biochemistry on the topic of food and health. What a journey this became! In my early days, the focus on good nutrition emphasized the consumption of protein. So it was with me and my professors. The more protein the better. …
ChemChina wants to acquire the makers of atrazine, bee pesticides and Golden Rice Switzerland-based Syngenta AG is best known for its top-selling herbicide, atrazine; for trying to fool the world into thinking its genetically engineered Golden Rice will save the world; and for taking out pollinators with its neonicotinoid pesticides. The global agro-toxics corporation, which produces agrochemicals, seeds and GMOs, was …
At one of the public brainstorming sessions for the New York Organic Action Plan, an organic farmer made an impassioned plea for “independent science” and told us that, with 8.5 billion mouths to feed by 2050, we will need genetic engineering to prevent starvation. I would like to examine these words carefully to decipher what they mean, how they are being used, and …
