Kaufman, Frederick
Summary: Investigates the hidden connection between global food and global finance by asking the simple question: Why can't delicious, inexpensive, and healthy food be available to everyone on Earth? Reveals that money pouring into the global derivatives market in grain futures is having astonishing consequences that reach far beyond your dinner table, including the Arab Spring, bankrupt farmers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 KAUSummary: According to Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy at London's City University, future wars may be fought specifically over agricultural resources. Given the present volatility of food prices and the riots they provoked in 2008, his theory seems to be on the mark. This program assesses the potential for a global food crisis as it guides viewers through issues involving climate change, oil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Jimmy Eat World (Musical group)
Contents: Futures -- Just tonight... -- Work -- Kill -- The world you love -- Pain -- Drugs or me -- Polaris -- Nothingwrong -- Night drive -- 23.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Interscope Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JIMButterfly Child.
Contents: Blind Me So I May See -- Still Learning to Crawl -- Playfair Steps -- Our Delays -- No Longer Living in Your Shadow -- Sheets of Whitewashed Sun -- A Shot in the Dark -- Night Music -- Holding On -- The Only Sound -- Futures -- Lost in These Machines -- Beauty #2.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dell'orso Records 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BUTSummary: As North America becomes more and more ethnically diverse, there is a growing appetite for every type of cuisine. This program focuses on Anita Saini and her Devya Indian Gourmet line of ready-to-eat sauces-heartened by a demand for her products but hampered by a lack of money to meet it. Also profiled on the show is millionaire Cindy Lee, a housewife who launched T&T Supermarket and has built...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: For decades, local food producers in the West have faced a shrinking market share. But if well-intentioned Americans and Europeans stop eating vegetables from Africa, will Africans have more to eat? Or will we simply deprive African farmers of a living? This program delves into that issue and other food-related problems, some of which have solutions while others urgently await answers. Viewers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: While the debate over genetically modified foods is far from settled, a growing number of food producers are taking a GM-friendly approach. This program presents arguments in favor of GM technology and suggests ways in which it can boost crop yields and reduce global hunger. Presented by Jim Doherty, a long-time advocate for sustainable agriculture in the U.K., the program travels to Bavaria,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: "Black Futures is a collection of work--art, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, and more--that tells the story of the radical, imaginative, bold, and beautiful world that black artists, high and low, are producing today. The book presents a succession of brilliant and provocative pieces--from both emerging and renowned creators of all kinds--that generates an entrancing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 DRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.896 DREStone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture
Summary: Letters to a Young Farmer is both a compelling history and a vital road mapa reckoning of how we eat and farm; how the two can come together to build a more sustainable future; and why now, more than ever before, we need farmers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 LETSummary: Satisfying one's hunger is a primal act which most Westerners never connect to global issues. But the diets and farming systems of wealthy countries can be directly linked to starvation in the underdeveloped world. This program sheds light on the international tragedy of hunger and malnutrition, emphasizing that the problem is one of distribution, not production. Filmed in Asia, South America,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Despite its huge population and expanding industrial economy, most of China's inhabitants are farmers. This program journeys to Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Beijing, exploring the relationship between Chinese agriculture and the urban centers of the country. Featuring visits to large-scale and family-operated farms, a walk along the Great Wall, and an interview with the U.S. embassy's agricultural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Contents: News about Heaven -- Lost futures -- Pray for rain -- Something will come -- At the edge of the world -- Hurricane light -- Life and casualty -- Haunted by water.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK ANDTorres
Contents: Tongue slap your brains out -- Skim -- Three futures -- Righteous woman -- Greener stretch -- Helen in the woods -- Bad baby pie -- Marble focus -- Concrete ganesha -- To be given a body.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 4AD 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TOROrleck, Annelise
Summary: "The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage. We Are All Fast Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages traces the evolution of a new global labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from Manila to Manhattan, from Baja California to Bangladesh, from Capetown to Cambodia. This is an up close and personal look at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331 ORLGuilbeault, Nina
Summary: A Harvard-trained sociologist (and vegan), exploring the history of the vegan movement and its present-day tensions, grapples with the most fundamental questions of all: Is there a truly ethical way to eat?, which results in an eye-opening portrait of how social change happens, with profound implications for our plates--and our planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This program finds out how in just 30 years North American diners have gone from "Yuk! I'm not eating that!" to "Guess what I ate last night!" Our penchant for the exotic has buoyed a booming global food trade and a modern food-processing industry. Yet despite all this passion for food, fewer and fewer of us can actually cook. Eating out and ordering in have become so common, we've almost done...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Mack, Molly
Summary: "The planet is getting warmer, and its affecting everything from the climate to sea levels. Its also affecting Earths inhabitantsplants, animals, and people alike. In this information-rich title, readers learn about the phenomenon of global warming and how rising temperatures impact the future of our planet. Age-appropriate text, fact boxes, and detailed photographs make this complex topic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.7 MACSummary: Documents the trend of unlabeled genetically-modified foods which have become increasingly prevalent in grocery stores. Unravels the complex web of market and political forces that are changing the nature of what we eat. Explores organic and sustainable agriculture as alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arts Alliance America 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FUTRonald, Pamela C.
Contents: Cultivating sacred rice in Nihe, China and Davis, California -- Why organic agriculture? -- The tools of organic agriculture -- The tools of genetic engineering -- Legislating lunch -- Who can we trust? -- Is GE food risky to eat? -- Conserving wildlands -- Weeds, gene flow, and the environment -- Who owns the seed? -- Who owns the genes? -- Deconstructing dinner: genetically engineered,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 RONSummary: No one wants a burger with a side of salmonella or a taco topped with E. coli, but that's what you can get when food isn't prepared correctly. This video describes common-and serious-food-borne illnesses, how they're spread, and how they can be prevented through careful food handling and proper food preparation. Salmonella, Campylobacter jejuni, Escherichia coli, and shigella are discussed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Jenkins, McKay
Summary: "Are GMOs really that bad? A prominent environmental journalist takes a fresh look at what they actually mean for our food system and for us,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 JENSummary: The head of the UN's world food program says "a perfect storm" is hitting hungry people around the globe. What are the causes, and what is being done to help the poorest of the poor? This edition of the Journal begins with a report on the situation in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo, where an estimated 45,000 people die every month of hunger and disease. Then, Bill Moyers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Hauter, Wenonah.
Summary: Through meticulous research, Hauter presents a shocking account of how agricultural policy has been hijacked by lobbyists, driving out independent farmers and food processors in favor of the likes of Cargill, Tyson, Kraft, and ConAgra. She demonstrates how the impacts ripple far and wide, from economic stagnation in rural communities at home, to famines in poor countries overseas. In the end,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 HAUAnd So I Watch You From Afar
Contents: Eunoia -- Big thinks do remarkable -- Like a mouse -- Ambulance! -- The stay golden. Pt. 1 ; Pt. 2, Rats on rock ; Pt. 3, Trails -- Mend and make safe -- Ka ba ta bo da ka -- Things amazing -- All hail bright futures -- Young brave minds.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sargent House 2013