Check out article on Diet for a Hot Planet by MNN writer Sidney Stevens.

3/11/10 – Mother Nature Network
‘Diet for a Hot Planet’ author has a recipe for eating responsibly

3/4/10 – Washington Post
Author cites food production as villain in climate change

3/4/10 – Nutrition Talk Radio, Tufts University
Communicating Ideas about Agriculture Food and the Environment

2/24/10 – Ladies’ Home Journal
Ladies We Love

Thanks to Cathy Erway for the sweet shout out in the very cool Ladies’ Home Journal/Ladies Lounge blog post about her new book, The Art of Eating In. Cathy is a lady we can all admire for calling attention to the merits fresh, healthy, homemade food.

Just got word of the following favorable review from Kirkus!

DIET FOR A HOT PLANET: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It by Anna Lappé

MSN “Practical Guide for Healthy Living” host Lappé elaborates on her mother’s conviction, elucidated in the classic Diet for a Small Planet (1971), that individual food choices can lead to massive social consequences.

The author convincingly argues that food is “the integrating lens” for the innumerable responses to climate change. At three meals or more per day, Lappé writes, we are faced with either supporting or resisting industrial food production. So-called conventional food production and distribution—ecologically and economically fragile—contributes to nearly one-third of total human-caused global warming and paradoxically creates hunger out of plenty. Organic, local, plant-based foods, on the other hand, have the potential to not only mitigate but ultimately repair this damage. Lappé bolsters her support for a local, organic diet with a substantial bibliography of peer-reviewed science, studies, policies and interviews. Her journalism and science is rock-solid, as are her clear-headed critiques of scare-mongering by corporations (like Monsanto or Dow) invested in biotech or industrial food production. The author offers simple solutions to our near-future food security and climate stability—eat real foods, mostly plants, from organic, local sources. Yes, Michael Pollan owns this territory, but Lappé helpfully recontextualizes the argument, noting that one mealtime choice, multiplied by millions, offers benefits toward planetary health and food security. Accessibly written, rationally argued and focused on action over rhetoric, the book will interest parents, foodies, economists, committed vegetarians, moral omnivores, environmentalists, health enthusiasts and anyone interested in actually doing something about climate change while government responses stagnate.

An essential toolkit for readers looking for a pragmatic climate-response action plan of their own.

(Author tour to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore., Seattle, Durham, N.C., Ann Arbor, Mich., Minneapolis, Northampton, Mass., Boston, Washington, D.C., New York. Agent: Sam Stoloff/Frances Goldin Literary Agency)

A couple of my young and highly talented friends were winding down in the wee hours after their snapping GO LIVE! REAL FOOD performance in Waikiki when they got the news of the Chilean earthquake. They 'stood fixated on the flat screens, drinks in hand' as real time images of Chilean destruction were quickly followed by an official tsunami warning and a barrage of historic Hawaiian newsreel footage documenting the devastating tidal wave that hit Hilo back in 1947. After ordering an evacuation of coastal areas, the government advised people to stock up on a weeks worth of food.

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