Past Events2006 The 10th Anniversary of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
A scientific symposium: CHARTING A COURSE TO SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND SERVICE (Program, speaker biographies, presentation summaries, and audio files)
CLF FILM SERIES: Broken Limbs
Apples, Agriculture, and the New American Farmer
Wenatchee, Washington, "Apple Capital of the World." This pastoral Valley in the heart of the Pacific Northwest prospered for nearly a century as home to the famed Washington apple. But the good times have vanished. Apple orchardists by the thousands are going out of business and thousands more await the dreaded letter from the bank announcing the end of their livelihoods and a uniquely American way of life. Produced by Jamie Howell and Guy Evans November 8
APHA: Scientific Panel – IAP and Human Rights
The five part panel entitled “Right to health: The challenge of industrial animal production” included presentations on an overview of human rights and industrial animal production, the rights of current and future generations to an un-degraded environment, the rights of workers and communities, the rights of consumers to safe and nutritious food and the right to food: eating as a moral act. Panel presenters were Robert S. Lawrence, Polly Walker, Shawn McKenzie, Carole Morison, Wenonah Hauter and Brother David Andrews. HBS/CLF SEMINAR SERIES: Eating, Behavior Change & Obesity
CLF and the Health Behavior and Society department at the JH School of Public Health hosted a seminar series on the social and behavioral aspects of childhood obesity and nutrition that featured renowned researchers from around the country. The series ran from October 26, 2006 – January 19, 2007 and featured research on the school environment, the built environment, policymaking, and ethnic and cultural contexts. A white paper is being written to share key recommendations for obesity research and to spotlight the perspectives of leading investigators in the field. List of speakers: David Wallinga, Leslie Lytle, Shiriki K. Kumanyika, Benjamin Caballero, Lara Trifiletti, Youfa Wang, Janice Bowie, Margarita Treuth and Felicity Northcott. October 16
23rd Annual World Food Day Teleconference
POWER OF THE PEOPLE: Bottom-up Solutions to Hunger
This year’s World Food Day Teleconference examined the unique and potentially powerful role played by the hundreds of grassroots’ based movements working for a world free of hunger. Three international leaders with hands on experience and knowledge about these “home grown” endeavors shared information about these global citizen activists: Dr. Makanjuola Olaseinde Arigbede of Nigeria, a full time development activist who trained as a doctor of medicine; Eva Clayton former congresswoman from North Carolina who has just retired as Associate Director-General and director of the International Alliance Against Hunger for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN; and Dr. Deepa Narayan, of India, who is senior adviser in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management of the World Bank, and author and team leader of the Voices of the Poor initiative.
Sponsored by US National Committee for World Food Day Anna Lappe´
FOOD POLITICS: Eat Grub! Putting Justice on Your Plate
How has the food industry shaped our understanding of diet, health, and organic and sustainable farming? How does our diet affect our health and the health of our environment and how can we each play a role in transforming the world.
Lappe's latest book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen will be on sale after the lecture and the author will be available to sign books. Refreshments will be served. September 12
CLF FILM SERIES
Co-sponsored with the JHSPH Environmental Stewardship Committee
An Inconvenient Truth
This documentary is part of Al Gore’s campaign to make the issue of global warming a universally recognized problem. Intertwining simple but harrowing statistics with personal reflections, Gore explains that we have the tools and methods at hand to reverse the damage we’ve done and that the economic consequences of tackling these problems will be positive rather than negative. . (Recently published article in Environmental Health Perspectives by JHSPH faculty on Global Environmental Change)
June 21
CONFRONTING FACTORY FARMS:
Insights from the Trenches
A panel presentation with members of the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment’s (GRACE) Factory Farm Project Team. Team members include farmers, ranchers, and economists from across North America who work with rural communities, family ranchers and farmers to oppose industrial animal production and defend the health and well-being of communities. ( )
May 2
CONFERENCE UNDERUTILIZED PLANTS: Their Role in Preventive Medicine, Nutrition, and Sustainability
Public health professionals working in some of the most economically challenged areas of the world are also in proximity to a large array of underutilized plants. Traditional knowledge of their medicinal and nutritional uses is being lost at an alarming rate. This loss is accompanied by disappearance of the plant species themselves and of the ecosystems they support. This symposium increases awareness by highlighting some of these underutilized plant resources and their benefits to local populations. Health professionals, plant researchers and others attended.(Program, speaker biographies, presentation summaries, and audio files)
April 25
7th Annual Edward and Nancy Dodge Lecture
Fred L. Kirschenmann, PhD
Distinguished Fellow at the Aldo Leopold Center, Iowa State University
Professor of Religion and Philosophy: North Dakota rancher
The Farm/Food/Health Connection
Our “mechanized world view has led to the evolution of food and farming systems based on the principles of specialization, simplification and concentration. This industrial paradigm has now left us with a series of health problems that are all inter-connected---the health of our soil, our farms, our environment, our diets, and our own health.” Fred Kirschenmann --- farmer, philosopher, and long-time leader in sustainable agriculture --- will “make a modest attempt at re-connecting the dots and making a case for a new world view based on Aldo Leopold's concept of an ‘ecological conscience’.” (Summary, speaker biography, and audio file of lecture)
April 7
SPECIAL LECTURE
T. Colin Campbell, PhD
Jacob Gould Shurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry
Cornell University College of Human Ecology
Understanding Nutrition is a Matter of Life and Death
Dr. Campbell discussed his book The China Study: Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health.
Dietary Fat, Breast Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease: What is the Hypothesis? A discussion with Dr. Campbell about the study design and findings from the Women's Health Initiative and the Nurses Health Study.
(Summary, speaker biography, & audio file of lecture)
March 1
SPECIAL LECTURE
Ben Caballero, MD, PhD
THE NUTRITION TRANSITION IN CHINA: Risk Factors for Obesity and
Diabetes in Urban and Rural Populations
The presentation will highlight the results of a multi-year pilot study funded by the Center for a Livable Future exploring the impact of dietary changes on risk for cardiovascular disease in China. (Summary & speaker biography)
February 2
OPEN HOUSE
Opportunity for students and other to meet CLF staff, Board members and affiliated faculty. 
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