Past Events 2005 - 2004 2005 November 30
RESEARCH DAY 2005
Insights Along the Path to Sustainability
Presenting work supported by CLF Faculty and Student Innovation Grants, Directed Research, and Predocotral Fellowship Program. (list of presentations, summaries and presenter biographies).
October 14
22nd Annual World Food Day Teleconference
REFLECTIONS ON FIGHTING HUNGER: Roads Not Taken, Goals Not Met,
The Journey Ahead
Noted author and food activist, Frances Moore Lappe' offered her perspective on the human-made causes of hunger and the significance of our everyday choices in creating a work free of hunger. Hosted by Daniel Zwerdling of National Public Radio, this teleconference also included Dr. Pedro Sanchez, World Food Prize laureate, US Ambassador Tony Hall, Dr. Wangari Maathei, Nobel Peace laureate as well as the documentary fillm "Silent Killer" by John deGraaf and Hana Jindrova.
Sponsored by the US National Committee for World Food Day.
September 14
SPECIAL EVENT
Full Circle: Food's Journey
An evening of food, conversation and reflection
Co-sponored with the American Institute of Wine and Food, a evening of eating local food and wine and listening to a distinguished panel discussing food in America. Speakers: Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stoneyfield Farms: Dr. Phil Landrigan, pediatrician and leading expert on children's health and the environment; and Chef Peter Hoffman, owner of the Savoy Restaurant in new York City and National Chairperson of Chef Collaborative.
September 14
2005 SEMINAR SERIES
Children's Health and the Environment: The Problem and the Solution
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, and Chairman of the Department of Community and Preventative Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City discusses what we know about the impact of toxic chemicals in the envrionment and their effect especially on children. September 9
2005 SEMINAR SERIES
Eating Green for Health and the Environment
Michael F. Jacobson, PhD
Executive Director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest dicusses how our eating patterns affect human health, chronic disease and the environment. April 22
6th ANNUAL DODGE LECTURE
Seas the Day: Ocean Science, Politics and Ethics
Jane Lubchenco
One of the nation’s leading marine biologists and one of our most respected ecologists. February 18
2005 SEMINAR SERIES
One Fish, Two Fish, Crawfish, Bluefish: The Smithsonian Seafood Project
Carole Baldwin
Smithsonian marine biologist talks about sustainable seafood and her new book. February 16
RESEARCH DAY 2004
Insights Along the Path to Sustainability
Presenting work supported by the CLF Faculty and Student Innovation Grants
 2004 November 8
PANEL PRESENTATION
The Vicious Spiral: Population Growth, Nutritional Needs and Environmental Degradation
Michael Heller of Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Rubin Gist of the D.C. Food Bank, and CLF Staff, Dr. Robert Lawrence, MD, Pamela Rhubart, Shawn McKenzie at 132nd Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association.
October 15
SATELLITE TELEBROADCAST: 21ST ANNUAL WORLD FOOD DAY
Politics of Hunger: What's At Stake
Featuring Dr. Werner Kiene, World Food Program representative
to the Bretton Woods Institutions (World Bank and International Monetary Fund).
August 13
2004 SEMINAR SERIES
Leaky Pipes and Cross Contamination: Is Baltimore's Aging Sewer System a Threat to Public Health?
Guy Hollyday, Chair Baltimore Sanitary Sewer Oversight Coalition, Rolf Halden, PhD, PE Assistant Professor Environmental Health Sciences Center for Water and Health.
April 26
PANEL PRESENTATION
Meat Consumption and the Vicious Spiral
Presented as part of the conference: Eating as a Moral Act: Ethics and Power from Agrarianism to Consumerism Symposium, University of New Hampshire.
April 9
CONFERENCE
Eating for the Future, Can Public Health Rise to the Challenge?
Robert S. Lawrence, MD; Sidney Mintz, PHD; Benjamin Caballero, MD, PhD; Wayne Roberts, PhD. March 4
2004 SEMINAR SERIES
You are What You Eat: How Chefs Collaborative Serves Up Public Health on a Plate
Betsy Johnson- Director, Chefs Collaborative.
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