{"id":1715,"date":"2014-01-19T20:01:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T20:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2014-01-19T20:02:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T20:02:17","slug":"innovation-and-social-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=1715","title":{"rendered":"Innovation and Social Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently curated and added to the EarthSayers.tv collection two video interviews of women seeking out innovation in nutrition and community development the more social or people aspect of sustainability.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1717\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1717\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?attachment_id=1717\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1717\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1717\" title=\"tn_25108\" src=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tn_25108.png\" alt=\"Isabel Hoffman\" width=\"100\" height=\"66\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabel Hoffman<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>TellSpec -What&#8217;s in Your Food?<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthsayers.com\/special_collection\/Whats_In_Your_Food_Telespec_Innovation\/16\/25109\" target=\"_blank\">Video here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tellspec.com\/team\/\">Isabel Hoffmann<\/a> CEO of <a title=\"Tellspec Website\" href=\"http:\/\/tellspec.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TellSpec<\/a> updates with her CTO Stephen Watson, their progress over the last\u00a0 three months on the TellSpec handheld device. The device <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1719\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?attachment_id=1719\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1719\" title=\"tellspec\" src=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tellspec.png\" alt=\"tellspec\" width=\"100\" height=\"68\" \/><\/a>beams a low-powered laser at the food you  wish to analyze, measures the reflected light with a spectrometer, and  sends the data via your smart phone, computer, or tablet to TellSpec\u2019s  servers in the cloud.\u00a0 Know more about what you eat as the information captured is then displayed on your computer, tablet or smart  phone so you can intelligently decide if you want to buy or eat the  food. While we tend to see hardware solutions as being in the the\u00a0 realm of tech innovation, and it is, sustainability suggests we emphasize the social path and its use for maintaining the health of our citizens and food safety.\u00a0 Sustainability &gt; People &gt; Health &gt; Nutrition and Wellness.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1721\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1721\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?attachment_id=1721\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1721\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1721\" title=\"karen\" src=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karen.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Litfin\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Litfin<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Ecovillages &#8211; Integrating people, planet, and prosperity at the community level<\/strong> (<a title=\"Karen Litfin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthsayers.com\/special_collection\/Seed_Communities_Ecovillage_Experiments_by_Karen_Litfin\/16\/25110http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">video here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/litfin\/\">Karen Litfin<\/a> is a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington.<strong> <\/strong>She specializes in global environmental politics, with core interests in  green theory, the science\/policy interface, and \u201cperson\/planet  politics.\u201d In this interview she talks about her book, <em><strong>Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community<\/strong><\/em> having traveled to ecovillages on five continents.<\/p>\n<p>Sustainability &gt; People &gt; Cities and Communities&gt; Community Development &gt;EcoVillages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlight video interviews of Isabel Hoffman, CEO and co-developer of TellSpec, a handheld device under development to give us feedback as to what is in the food we buy and eat and Karen Litfin author of Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community. Sustainability in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393,5],"tags":[595,338,589,593,596,594,591,590,376,592],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","category-sustainability","tag-communities","tag-community-development","tag-ecovillages","tag-food-safety","tag-global-environmental-politics","tag-health-and-wellness","tag-isabel-hoffman","tag-karen-litfin","tag-nutrition","tag-tellspec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}