3rd TEDucation Session
Date: 16 November 2011
TED Talker: Carolyn Steel
Presenter: Seodhna Keown, Toronto Food Strategy, Toronto Public Health
Talk summary:
- How do you feed a city? It’s a marvel that we can, because we rely on nature and each other
- Food has shaped our relationship to cities, and cities have shaped our relationships to food
- We should see cities with food as an ordering principle, because its essential to our lives, and our relationship with the planet
Relevance to Toronto Public Service:
- It’s related to public health, city planning and social development, as well as related fields, but really all the ways people interact with the city and the countryside. That’s why Carolyn Steel ends her talk with a reference to Abrogio Lorezetti’s painting, the Alegory of Good Government, that paints a picture of how the city takes care of the countryside and the countryside takes care of the city.
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