Sustainable Food Systems | Earth Day Celebration – Earth Matters: Designing our Future

In celebration of Earth Day 2015, The New School’s Tishman Environment and Design Center (TEDC | http://www.newschool.edu/tedc) hosts Earth Matters: Designing our Future, a daylong event featuring workshops, pop up classes, and discussions on climate action and sustainability spanning the disciplines. The event highlights TEDC’s bold integration of design, policy, and social justice approaches to environmental issues.
Food for Thought: Sustainable Food Systems

Join us for four short presentations about sustainable food systems. A tasty, sustainably-source meal will be served to attendees.
– Food and Sustainable Tourism, led by Fabio Parasecoli, Associate Professor and Director of Food Studies Initiatives, Food Studies Program, The New School for Public Engagement;
– The Carbon Foodprint: How The New School is Reducing its Impact, led by Ed Verdi, New School Senior Director of Business Operations;
– The Urban Food Planning Revolution, led by Rositsa T. Ilieva, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow; and
– Sustainable Cities Club Reports Back From the Just Food? Conference, led by Anna Marandi, SCC Communications Director and Maeve McInnis, Former SCC President.