<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arialmt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center" class=""><span style="font-family:calibri" class=""><b class=""><font size="4" class="">Panel Discussion Invitation</font></b></span><span style="font-family:calibri" class=""> </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arialmt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><i class="">..............................<wbr class="">..............................<wbr class="">..............................</i></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arialmt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><i class=""><b class=""><font color="#993300" class="">‘Food Waste in the City - Waste Not, Want Not'</font></b></i></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arialmt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><i class=""><font color="#993300" class=""> </font>……………………………………………………………………………</i></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><b class="">Host<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></b></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><b class="">Tisch Food Center </b><b class="">at Teachers College </b></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><b class="">Columbia University</b></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center" class=""><font face="Calibri" style="font-size:15px" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt" class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><b style="font-size: 15px;" class="">RSVP:</b><font color="navy" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""> </span></font></font><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-waste-waste-not-want-not-tickets-28741894781" style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><font face="Calibri" class="">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-waste-waste-not-want-not-tickets-28741894781</font></a></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt" class=""><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in" class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span style="font-size:15px" class=""><b class="">Date:</b> November 7, 2016<font color="navy" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></font></span></font></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in" class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span style="font-size:15px" class=""><b class="">Time:</b> <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">6:00 – 8:00pm</span></span> <font color="navy" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></font></span></font></p><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt" class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span style="font-size:15px" class=""><b class="">Venue:</b> Tisch Food Center at Teachers College, Columbia University - 525 W 120 Street - Milbank Chapel</span></font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt" class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span style="font-size:15px" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt" class=""><span style="font-size:15px" class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><b class="">Moderator: </b></font><font face="Calibri" class=""><span style="line-height:17.25px" class="">Claire Uno, Assistant Executive Director, </span><span style="line-height:17.25px" class="">Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy Program in Nutrition, Teachers College Columbia University</span></font></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt" class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span style="line-height:17.25px;font-size:15px" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><font face="Calibri" style="font-size:15px" class=""><span style="line-height:17.25px" class=""></span></font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt" class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><font style="font-size:15px" class=""><b class="">Panelists:</b></font><font style="font-size:15px" class=""> </font><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px" class="">Ranjith Kharvel Annepu, Co-founder and Curator, 'Be Waste Wise’; </span><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px;color:rgb(55,55,55);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in" class="">Eva </span><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px" class="">Goulbourne, Associate Director, Programs & Communications, ReFED; </span><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px;color:rgb(55,55,55);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in" class="">Robert Lee, Co-founder, Rescuing Leftover Cuisine; </span><span style="line-height:14.95px;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in" class=""><span style="font-size:15px;color:rgb(55,55,55)" class=""> <span style="line-height:17.25px" class="">Pamela Koch, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Nutrition at Teacher's College and Executive Director, Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy Program in Nutrition, Teachers College Columbia University; </span></span> <span style="line-height:14.95px" class=""><font color="#373737" class=""><span style="font-size:15px" class="">Patrick O’Neill, Founder and CEO,Amp Your Good.</span></font></span><br class=""></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt" class=""><font face="Calibri" style="font-size:15px" class=""><b class="">Topic:</b> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u>‘Food Waste in the City - Waste Not, Want Not' </font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font face="Calibri" style="font-size:15px" class="">Food waste affects us all. It is part of the bigger sustainability challenge facing large cities like New York and how we strategically handle the enormous waste that is produced on a daily basis. For those of us who research and follow this topic, the facts below are well known. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font face="Calibri" style="font-size:15px" class="">Food Waste Statistics<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></font></p><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" class=""><ul class=""><li style="margin-left:15px" class=""><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(68,68,68);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in" class="">14% of the greenhouse gases emitted in the U.S. that are contributing to climate change stem from getting food from the farm to your fork…and then to the landfill.</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px" class=""><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(68,68,68);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in" class="">About 29% of global fish stocks are over-exploited and 61% are fully exploited.</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px" class=""><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(68,68,68);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in" class="">Scientists are raising concern that the increase in wastage of consumable food across the globe will directly contribute to increased deforestation of tropical forests.</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px" class=""><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(68,68,68)" class="">The percentage of water wasted when we waste food is a staggering 24% of all water used for agriculture.</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px" class=""><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:calibri" class="">Every year, American consumers, businesses, and farms spend $218 billion – 1.3% of GDP – growing, processing, transporting, and disposing food that is never eaten. </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px" class=""><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:calibri" class="">Waste occurs throughout the supply chain, with nearly 85% occurring downstream at consumer-facing businesses (grocers, restaurants, institutional cafeterias) and homes. Meanwhile 42 million Americans, 1 in 6, remain food insecure</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:calibri" class=""> </span></li></ul></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font face="Calibri" style="font-size:15px" class="">At this panel we will hear from experts working in the field in various capacities - academia, government, NGO’s and practitioners at the corporate and the individual level. They will discuss their learnings and suggest actions we can take towards making our food waste foot print smaller. ‘When we throw away food, we’re also throwing away the land, water, and energy used to produce that food.’ That’s why it’s imperative to learn about food waste and take the necessary actions.</font><font size="3" class=""> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></font></p><p class="gmail-m_7239918985401185743normal"><b class=""><font face="Calibri" style="font-size:15px" class="">About the Sponsors:</font></b></p></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt" class=""><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt" class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span style="line-height:18px" class=""><span style="font-size:15px" class=""></span></span></font></div></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt" class=""><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span style="font-size:15px" class="">The <b class="">Sustainability Practice Network</b> (SPN) is a New York based inter-disciplinary community of professionals who seek to learn and share knowledge to advance sustainable development across sectors and disciplines. We mobilize our members to practice sustainability in their lives and work. Our mission is to raise awareness of the importance of individual and corporate sustainability and thereby create a more stable and equitable world. </span></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:15px" class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri" style="font-size:15px" class=""><span style="color:rgb(55,55,55)" class=""><b class="">Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy Program in Nutrition, Teachers College Columbia University: </b></span><font color="#000000" class="">The Tisch Food Center cultivates research about connections between a just, sustainable food system and healthy eating, and translates it into recommendations and resources for educators, policy makers, and community advocates. The Center focuses on schools as critical levers for learning and social change</font></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>