Anna Lappe: Diet for a Hot Planet (5/18/11)

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from Anna Lappe: Diet for a Hot Planet held on May 18, 2011

Duration

1:03:37

Anna Lappe

Founding Principal, Small Planet Institute; Author, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It

Steve Wright, Vice President of Strategic Communications, Silicon Valley Leadership Group - Moderator

With as much as one-third of total greenhouse emissions related to food production, the cost of our eating habits on the environment has never been more apparent. Lappe highlights the hidden cost of America’s culinary culture and outlines seven principles for a climate-friendly diet.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on May 18, 2011

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