Tag: Emily Broad Leib

  • Nation & World

    How food donations can help fight hunger and climate change

    Every year, nearly 700 million people suffer from hunger around the world, while 1.3 billion tons of food are thrown away.

    10 minutes
    Emily Broad Leib.
  • Nation & World

    The collective effort

    Harvard students, alumni, faculty, and staff from the nationwide “To Serve Better” project weigh in on how coronavirus is affecting their corner of the country, and the work they do.

    12 minutes
    U.S. map dotted with To Serve Better icons.
  • Nation & World

    Waste not, want not

    Since early March, Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic has been writing briefs aimed at saving tons of food that could feed the hungry, and working to inform the response to COVID-19, including legislation that Congress has been hammering out.

    8 minutes
    Man holding box of food.
  • Nation & World

    One by one, they’re making a difference

    Marking the launch of “To Serve Better,” a series of stories about people committed to improving communities around the nation.

    3 minutes
    Sarah Lockridge-Steckel, Emily Broad Leib, Anne Sung
  • Nation & World

    Sugar stands accused

    Science journalist Gary Taubes brought his “Case Against Sugar” to Harvard Law School.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Hunger for change

    A panel sponsored by the Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic and the Union of Concerned Scientists brought food luminaries to talk about the need for a national food policy.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    From fresh food to magic mushrooms

    Author and journalist Michael Pollan has spent a fellowship year at Radcliffe changing directions and focusing on a fresh project, exploring a budding rebirth of psychedelic drugs for medicinal uses.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A dearth of nutrition in school lunches

    About 200 people interested in improving the quality of meals served in America’s public schools gathered at Harvard to discuss topics ranging from getting wholesome food into schools to institutional barriers.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Support for seven from president’s climate fund

    Seven research projects aimed at confronting the challenge of climate change using the levers of law, policy, and economics, as well as public health and science, have been awarded grants in the inaugural year of President Drew Faust’s Climate Change Solutions Fund.

    8 minutes