2012 Agenda
A Crisis in Confidence: Creating a Better, More Sustainable Food World We Can Trust
Executive Conference Center
Hearst Tower, 44th Floor
NYC
Download a PDF of the complete agenda for the two days of the conference.
Further Reading
Will Allen
Founder, Growing Power
The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities
Miriam Arond
Director, The Good Housekeeping Research Institute
“Safe to Eat?” by The Good Housekeeping Research Institute
Wendell Berry
Author, Poet and Farmer
Sheila Bowman
Manager of Culinary and Strategic Initiatives, Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch
"Turning the Tide, The State of Seafood" from the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Jason Clay
Senior Vice President, Market Transformation, World Wildlife Fund
“Room for Debate: Can the Planet Support 10 Billion People? More Efficient Food Production”, The New York Times
Debra Eschmeyer
Founder, Food Corps
“The Full School Food Equation,” Huffington Post
“Make a Career of Humanity,” Huffington Post
Eric Goldstein
Chief Executive of School Support Service, NYC Department of Education
“Hairnets, Yes; Fried Foods, No,” The New York Times
Adam Gopnik
Staff Writer, The New Yorker
The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food
Frederick Kaufman
Contributing Editor, Harper's
Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food
Sid Lerner
Grace Communications Foundation, Founder, The Monday Campaigns
“Campaign Aims to Make Meatless Mondays Hip,” NPR
Anne Mendelson
Historian and Author
Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages
Janet Poppendieck
Author and Professor
Free for All: Fixing School Food in America
Daniel B. Ravicher
Executive Director, Public Patent Foundation
OSGATA v. Monsanto: Seed Patents (Public Patent Foundation)
“Modified Crops Tap a Wellspring of Protest,” The New York Times
“Patently Problematic,” Valley Advocate
Shauna Sadowski
Director of Sustainability, Annie's, Inc.
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Raising Elijah by Sandra Steingraber
Drive by Daniel Pink
Dennis Treacy
EVP and Chief Sustainability Officer, Smithfield Foods, Inc.
Sustainability Watch – Dennis Treacy, Smithfield Foods
The Reinventors: How Extraordinary Companies Pursue Radical Continuous Change by Jason Jennings
Emmanuel Verstraeten
Founder and President, SPE Certified, Owner, Rouge Tomate
“Certifiably Good,” Time Magazine
Tensie Whelan
President, Rainforest Alliance
“Sustainable Food Comes of Age,” Huffington Post
“Incentives to Save the Planet – Part 1,” Huffington Post
“Incentives to Save the Planet – Part 2,” Huffington Post
From our Detroit Salon
“Detroit arcadia: Exploring the post-American landscape,” Harper’s Magazine
For queries, please contact foodconference@jamesbeard.org.