Take a Bite out of Climate Change

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8/28/10 – New York Times
Anna’s Letter to the Editor in response to Math Lessons for Locavores

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8/26/10 – Foreign Policy Association
Five Questions for…Anna Lappé

What’s the story of your food?

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:07:57 +0000

Check out this video from Nourish, a multi-year media and education initiative aimed at getting people to think and learn more about the food system – and to get involved in the food revolution.

Watch, listen to Katherine Leiner’s story of Growing Roots

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:42:12 +0000

Katherine Leiner’s new book Growing Roots: The New Generation of Sustainable Farmers, Cooks and Food Activists is a beautiful profile of the young people who are working to make our food system more healthy and nutritious for all!

Growing Roots from Wheelhouse Creative on Vimeo.

Great Democracy Now Segment on All Things Industrial Ag

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:11:40 +0000

David Kirby (Animal Factories) turns your stomach with tales of arsenic in chickens. Patty Lovera (Food & Watch Watch) tells it like it is about consolidation in ag. And Anuradha Mittal (Oakland Institute) talks about the new global land grab and what it means for food security.

All on Democracy Now! this morning.

Fixing Our Toxic Food Environment

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:56:35 +0000

Natasha Singer takes on our toxic food environment in The New York Times. In “Fixing a World That Fosters Fat,” she argues that we’re bombarded every day by advertising and other toxic environmental factors that make it next to impossible to be a healthy nation. I’m reading David Kessler’s The End of Overeating, in which he makes the same case.

All of this should come as no surprise when we learn that Kellogg’s spends $15 million in just one year advertising Cap’n Crunch, while the past annual budget for USDA’s 5-A-Day fruit and vegetable promotion program is only $5 million. Sigh.

Three Pillars of the Food Revolution

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:53:29 +0000

With food companies and agribusiness stepping up their “green” marketing, how can we tell real climate-friendly food from fake? In my new piece for YES! magazine, I argue we can use a values-based approach to guide our decisions. Ecology, community and fairness are three that guide me–what guides you?

Do We Really Need a Math Lesson? Locavores Bite Back

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:52:19 +0000

Self-proclaimed “liberal curmudgeon” Stephen Budiansky’s takes a jab at the locavore movement in “Locavores Need a Math Lesson” in The New York Times. (His simplistic read on what locavores stand for reminded me of the attack on the local food movement three years ago in the Grey Lady’s pages.

How’s our math, really? Check out my take, along with that from other colleagues on Grist.org. It’s part of a new series, Grist Talks: Food Fight, in which experts debate hot-button food topics, via a “virtual roundtable.”

One Straw Revolution

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:46:35 +0000

One of the most inspiring books I read while working on Diet for a Hot Planet
was Masanobu Fukuoka’s classic The One-Straw Revolution.

I had been hearing about the book for ages from farmer friends who were influenced by it and I was mesmerized by page one. It’s part-practical farming advice, part-musing on the meaning of meaning of life.

So imagine my surprise to find a mention of the just-published new edition (with a foreword by my mom) in The Financial Times. Feels about as likely as Lady Gaga praising L.L. Bean footwear!

Got an Idea for Flooding “Food Deserts” with Nutrition? Enter the Better World Challenge

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:58:10 +0000

Got a creative idea about how to address the lack of access to good healthy food endemic across the country?

Submit your idea to the “A Better World by Design” contest, hosted by Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design. The first ever Better World Challenge, the contest is open to students and student-led organizations from around the globe. Says an organizer: “This competition aims to inspire young innovators from multidisciplinary backgrounds to solve the food desert problem.”

Deadline for entries has been extended to September 15th, so spread the word or enter your idea today and let us know.

Brooklyn’s Good Food Fest: Grub with a Purpose!

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:20:58 +0000

Attention Brooklynites! Mark your calendar for Sunday, September 12th! So much great stuff going on that day in Brooklyn, from the Brooklyn Book Festival (yours truly is participating) to the “Good Food Fest” sponsored by the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill chapter of the Brooklyn Food Coalition, and lots of other great orgs. The Good Food Fest is a fun-filled street fair to raise awareness about sustainable living and healthy, delicious and affordable food. The festival will be held on Myrtle Avenue between Vanderbilt Avenue and Clinton Avenue. –Kate

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8/20/10 – Huffington Post
3 Pillars of a Food Revolution

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:56:08 +0000

8/20/10 – Grist
Three pillars of a food revolution

Weekday Vegetarian in TIME

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:45:38 +0000

Meatless Mondays? A steak only on Saturdays? Check out what Graham Hill, founder of TreeHugger, and others have to say about the “eat less meat” movement that is starting to gain momentum, in this post from TIME magazine. And let us know what you think – have you cut back on meat? How is your diet different these days?

Ecology, Community, Fairness: Three Pillars of a Food Revolution

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:09:06 +0000

The Three Pillars of a Food Revolution takes a values-based approach to help us sift through the “green” marketing schemes pushed by food companies and agribusiness and to better understand the true food and climate connection.

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:04:07 +0000

8/19/10 – YES! Magazine
Ecology, Community, Fairness: 3 Pillars of a Food Revolution

DHP on Tree Hugger’s Must Read List

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:37:39 +0000

I’m honored that Tree Hugger added Diet for a Hot Planet to their list of “7 Must-Read New Books for Sustainable Eating.” And I’m honored to be in such great company, with Tracey Ryder and Carole Topalian, who produced a book based on the beautiful Edible magazines, Mark Bittman, Michael Pollan and others. There’s still a few weeks of summer reading time left, so check out the list today!

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:32:17 +0000

8/18/10 – Tree Hugger
7 Must-Read New Books for Sustainable Eating

Joan Dye Gussow’s New Garden

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:22:26 +0000

Check out this lovely feature from the New York Times that celebrates the life and work of Joan Dye Gussow and the rebirth of her famed backyard garden, which was destroyed by flooding in the spring.

Meat Meet Colbert

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:23:46 +0000

Need a humor break? Check out Steven Colbert’s “interview” with the president of the American Meat Institute. When your main spokesperson can’t effectively endorse your product, maybe it’s time to rethink your product?

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