TED Business The delicious potential of rescuing wasted food | Jasmine Crowe-Houston
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Aug 11, 2025 
Social entrepreneur Jasmine Crowe-Houston, founder of Goodr, joins journalist Manoush Zomorodi to discuss innovative strategies for tackling food waste. Jasmine shares how her platform reroutes surplus food to those in need, transforming the way we view hunger as a distribution problem. They explore alarming food waste statistics and highlight initiatives like pop-up restaurants that support underserved communities. Their conversation inspires listeners to engage in collective action, emphasizing the dignity of those receiving aid and the environmental benefits of reducing waste.
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Pop-Up Restaurant Sparked Goodr
- Jasmine created a pop-up restaurant to restore dignity for people experiencing homelessness.
- A 15-second viral clip exposed demand and forced her to seek donated food.
Reading The Harvard Food Report
- Jasmine googled donors and found alarming food-waste research, then read an 86-page Harvard report.
- That diagnosis drove her to build a system to reroute surplus food.
Food Waste Is Economically Massive
- Jasmine says food waste equals nearly 2% of U.S. GDP and would be the world's third-largest country.
- That scale shows why logistics fixes can deliver huge social and environmental returns.