If you’d like to contact Jonathan about speaking at your school or event, you can reach him at wasted food at gmail dot com to discuss availability. See below for his future and past appearances.
Upcoming
- Apr 20, 2013 – Austin Earth Day Festival (TX)
- Apr 30, 2013 – Grinnell College (IA)
Previous
- March 2013 - Furman University (SC)
- March 2013 - Food for Thought (CA)
- March 2013 – Univ. of Illinois
- February 2013 - Univ. of Arizona
- February 2013 - Harvard University (MA)
- January 2013 - Sust. Foods Summit (CA)
- January 2013 - Clean World Conf. (Estonia)
- November 2012 - Minnesota State-Mankato
- November 2012 - SWANA conference (MA)
- October 2012 – Bucknell University (PA)
- October 2012 – UNC-Chapel Hill (NC)
- August 2012 – Meredith College (NC)
- August 2012 – Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
- June 2012 – Eating Planet panel discussion (NYC) (video)
- May 2012 – Monterey Bay Aquarium (CA)
- May 2012 - UC Santa Cruz (CA)
- April 2012 - The Hill School (PA)
- April 2012 – Univ. of Pennsylvania
- March 2012 - Edible Institute (Santa Barbara)
- March 2012 - Pratt Library (Baltimore)
- November 2011 - Intl. Forum on Food and Nutrition (Milan, Italy)
- November 2011 - Middlebury College (VT)
- November 2011 – Mercersburg Academy (PA)
- October 2011- Bucknell University (PA)
- July 2011 – Osteria Mozza (LA)
- July 2011 – Otto (Las Vegas)
- September 2011 - Cape May Forum (NJ)
- June 2011 – Austin farm talk
- June 2011 – IACP Awards Gala
- June 2011 – IACP Culinary Book Fair
- May 2011 – EPA Webinar
- April 2011 – BioCycle Global 2011 conference (San Diego, Calif.)
- April 2011 – Pomona College (Public lecture- Claremont, Calif.)
- April 2011 – Briar Chapel Earth Day (Public Talk – Chapel Hill, N.C.)
- April 2011 – Notre Dame (Public lecture – South Bend, Ind.)
- March 2011 – Univ. of Toledo (Public lecture – Toledo, Ohio)
- March 2011 – 18 Reasons (Brown bag lunch – San Francisco)
- March 2011 – The Commonwealth Club (Panel discussion – San Francisco)
- March 2011 – University of Washington (Panel discussion – Seattle)
- March 2011 – University Bookstore (Book reading – Seattle)
- March 2011 – Powell’s on Hawthorne (Book reading – Portland)
- Feb. 2011 – Brookside Gardens (Green Matters Symposium – Northern Virginia)
- April 2010 – Stanford University (Public Lecture – Palo Alto, Calif.)
- Jan. 2010 – World Association of Chefs Societies conference (Santiago, Chile).
6 Comments
I came across your website while gathering more information for my students about food waste. I watched the show on Food Network and wanted to add more information to my Environmental Classes. I teach at a school in south Florida, Naples, Palmetto Ridge High School in Golden Gate Estates. We have a very close farming community in an area called Immokalee. Even though it is very close I feel the students are closed off to just how much is wasted in our are. I just purchased your book and would like your permission to reference it during my discussions. I was also wondering if your speaking tour will be bring down to Florida anytime soon.
Thank you,
Justin Lang
Hey Justin,
Glad that you found your way here and that you’re teaching about food waste. By all means, please do reference my book in your class!
No current plans to be in Florida in the near future, but it only takes one speaking engagement…I’m not doing a tour so much as giving individual talks. But I’m always happy to maximize each trip with multiple talks.
Hi, Jonathan – I’m enjoying reading your book right now.
I did catering in the ’80s in WDC, and used to have leftovers picked up by an organization I no longer remember the name of.
I shop for no more than I need for the next day or two, and as a single person, have very little food waste. Most frequently, it’s the remains of the smallest container of milk I could buy for making a cake or Bolognese sauce.
Thanks for bringing people’s attention to this matter.
Is there any chance you’ll be speaking in Pittsburgh?
Thanks,
Jay
There is no way that you can change the mentality of people because in united states people think that they are spending money so who cares, for example in restaurants if they dont like the taste because they never tried it before they go and ask for replacement and that food is garbage. I own 35 restaurants and this is never ending problem. They never think that they are wasting tons of food which people dont even get to see in third world countries. I personally believe that because of this food waste culture one day USA will pay very high price in terms of poor economy and scarcity of food.
I’m in a small town, two grocery stores owed by the same company….my question is about the selling of the scrapes in the meat dept to a local person who says they feed dogs with it. It is sold by these stores, probably 500 lbs a week so whoever buys it must have a lot of dogs or as I am skeptical it’s being resold for some other purpose. Any ideas? I didn’t think raw meat was good for domestic animal consumption. Thanks
Great presentation yesterday at SWANA! Thanks so much for the data and all of the tips. I will spread the word here in Ipswich and look forward to reading your book.