What They Found

Another fascinating talk from the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) series, which focuses on innovative ideas from creative thinkers, all free for the viewing.  Clearly barking up my tree, she discusses how much food has shaped  society and cities past and present, from Rome to London, and how the advent of industrialization, mass transportation, and other food technologies divorced cities from nature, leading to a direct relationship between the growth of non-organic cities and the devaluation of food in society.  Interesting how the earliest city shown actually resembled an animal cell, its size and growth dependent on constraints of resources, and the cities post-industrialization resembled cancerous growths, countless reproductions of houses, growing ceaselessly and without regard for original function and resource-balanced homeostasis, choking out the land they depend on.  It made me smile to recognize  her descriptions of permaculture before she actually said the word, and it caught me off guard hearing it discussed outside of a permie environment(the second TED talk I’ve heard make mention so far).  Enjoy some…wait for it…food…for thought.

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