ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Sophia Vartanian is a curious and creative young urban farmer who loves everything about food -- eating it, talking about it, cooking it and growing it. A student at Prince of Wales Mini School and a regular volunteer at University
of British Columbia (UBC) Farm, she is involved in many initiatives focused on sustainability. Having been hired by the City of Vancouver to help organize the April's 2012 YouthPolitik Conference, Sophia continues to explore a variety of ways to empower youth. She is very passionate about urban organic farming and firmly believes that agriculture will be what tips the scale in terms of our future and climate change.

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ABOUT THE TALK

Our food has become faceless and jet-lagged, travelling thousands of miles just to reach our plate. It's the product of conventional agriculture, a toxic and lifeless system that has become the greatest emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet. But urban farms and their young farmers are leading the way in bringing new life into our food system. This is especially true in Vancouver. As a sixteen-year old city kid turned farmer, Sophia is offering a new perspective on climate change, sharing some of the amazing solutions being explored on our city's urban farms

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ABOUT TEDxKIDS@BC

The mission of TEDxKids@BC is to help create a world in which the kids have been invited to explore their passions and to contribute in realizing such a world for the youth in our community. To accomplish this, we're trying to build platform for facilitating opportunities to empower kids and help them apply their passions. Find out more at http://www.tedxkidsbc.com

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ABOUT TEDx

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)