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Book Review: What the Fork Are You Eating?

Tamanna Mohapatra

Mar 23, 2015
3 min

Book Review: What the Fork Are You Eating?

I read this for both the content and the catchy book title. I found a good book review for it and have also supplemented it with some of my own. Book review. Some additional ones I jotted down while reading the book: Section 1 of the book starts of by reviewing the top 10 terminators aka food additives in our food these days. It’s safe to assume none of these are good for us and therefore below is some advise on what to avoid and how. Chemical preservatives-fresh food is the

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Aquaponics vs. Hydroponics vs. Ecoponics

Tamanna Mohapatra

Mar 7, 2015
2 min

Aquaponics vs. Hydroponics vs. Ecoponics

This is a short and mostly educative blog piece. The idea for the piece started based on a discussion I had at a sustainable networking event about the growth of aquaponics and hydroponics in our food system today. I realized I wasn’t clear about the difference between the two. Further, it’s such a growing area; it would be nice to learn what’s been happening in it recently. So here goes: Before there was just a body of water, fish swimming in it and men fishing them manually

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Corporate Food Waste..as observed through the lens of a Food Waste Audit

Tamanna Mohapatra

Feb 10, 2015
5 min

Corporate Food Waste..as observed through the lens of a Food Waste Audit

November of 2014 was an exciting month for me. My semester was nearly over, I was going to sunny LA after having won a sweepstake (I know-how cool is that!) and finally all of my summer networking had paid off with the opportunity to take part in an actual Corporate Food Waste Audit. I was more than excited; I was ecstatic! I was going to help observe and log results of an all day food waste audit at one of the hippest corporate offices in NYC for one of the trendiest company

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24 TED Talks That Will Help Save the Food System (from foodtank)

Tamanna Mohapatra

Aug 4, 2014
5 min

24 TED Talks That Will Help Save the Food System (from foodtank)

Below is an article from the amazing food think tank website highlighting 24 TED talks specifically around food issues that they find compelling and worth sharing. Please check out and watch as many of these as you can. 1. Roger Thurow: The Hungry Farmer – My Moment of Great Disruption Thurow,author of The Last Hunger Season, explains the profound “disease of the soul” that hunger represents, and how empowering smallholder farmers can bring long-term sustainable health

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Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability edited by Christopher B. Barrett

Tamanna Mohapatra

Jul 31, 2014
1 min

Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability edited by Christopher B. Barrett

I just read it but really liked it and thought it might be a good idea to share this book excellent book review. Book Review: Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability edited by Christopher B. Barrett. There's a video on it too. #bookreview, #christopherbarrett, #foodsecurity, #foodsustainability

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TEDxManhattan- Changing The Way We Eat.- March 1st 2014 (part 2)

Tamanna Mohapatra

Jun 8, 2014
7 min

TEDxManhattan- Changing The Way We Eat.- March 1st 2014 (part 2)

Good morning folks. I was waiting the whole week to get back to watching the rest of the food related Ted Talks and share the synopsis of each with you. I really recommend watching them all but if you are pressed for time and can only watch one, do listen to Sarah Young; the winner of this year’s Tedx Challenge. Here goes: Kenneth Cook – He is the president and co-founder of Environmental Working Group (EWG), widely recognized as one of the most prominent and effective indep

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TEDxManhattan- Changing The Way We Eat.- March 1st 2014 (part 1)

Tamanna Mohapatra

Jun 1, 2014
5 min

TEDxManhattan- Changing The Way We Eat.- March 1st 2014 (part 1)

The TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat” is a series of live talks, networking and meeting of both experts and other involved and interested in the topic of sustainable food and farming. The first such series took place in 2011 when 300 change-makers, innovators and experts attended. Twenty speakers took the stage to share their expertise with the sustainable food movement. TEDxManhattan vision is to ‘help shift our industrial, over processed food system to one that is hea

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Food rules (yeah it does!)- by Michael Pollan

Tamanna Mohapatra

Aug 16, 2011
2 min

Food rules (yeah it does!)- by Michael Pollan

I am not sure how I learnt about Michael Pollan, but I think it’s been about 2 years or so that I have come to know and read about his work. I was lucky enough to hear him speak in person last year at Rutgers new Brunswick. He was just great and that’s where I bought this handy-dandy book of his which I thoroughly enjoyed and would like to recommend to others. It’s divided into three sections: 1. Part 1: What should I eat (answer is eat food) 2. Part 2: What kind of foods sho

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Great article on sustainable practices related to food

Tamanna Mohapatra

Mar 8, 2010
2 min

Great article on sustainable practices related to food

I found this article from a very educative site, called change.org. Some of the tips are practical while others will take a little effort from our end. But never the less, we all need to start thinking in this direction sooner or later. The sooner the better I say! 1.Visit the farmers market. Venture out once a week or even once a month. The vendors are friendly, the food picturesque and the economy local. Find the options near you onLocal Harvest. 2. Join a CSA. You pay up f

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Tamanna Mohapatra

Feb 22, 2010
3 min

Introductory Article on Urban Farming

I am a Sierra Club board member (an environmentally focussed US based NGO) and have taken advantage of that to hone my writing skills. They have a quarterly newspaper they publish and I decided I want to write for them on various topics of mutual interest. They were nice and polite enough to not reject my proposal outright! The first article I wrote for them was on e-waste and was 5 times over the word limit. Our editor did I mighty fine job of cutting it up and putting me in

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