Events

Friday 5/21 7pm-8pm Anna Lappé discusses Diet for a Hot Planet This event is co-sponsored by:  Transition Carrboro-Chapel Hill, dedicated to growing a resilient, local low-carbon future together.  (www.transitioncch.org) and by Slow Food Triangle (www.slowfoodtriangle.org) SFT celebrates local food and the people who grow and make it.   A crucial piece of the conversation about climate change, Diet for a Hot Planet makes the disturbing connection between food production and global warming.   In Anna Lappé's controversial new book, she predicts that unless we radically shift the trends of what food we're eating and how we're producing it, food system-related greenhouse gas emissions will go up and up and up. She exposes the interests that will resist the change, and the spin food companies will generate to avoid system-wide reform. And she offers a vision of a future in which our food system does more good than harm, with six principles for a climate friendly diet as well as visits to farmers who are demonstrating the potential of sustainable farming.  In this measured and intelligent call to action, Lappé helps readers understand that food can be a powerful starting point for solutions to global environmental problems. Anna Lappé is daughter of Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet,  the extraordinary bestselling book that taught America the social and personal significance of a new way of eating in the 1970’s. Anna is an author and is currently the host for MSN’s Practical Guide to Healthy Living and co-host for the public television series, The Endless Feast. Named one of Time magazine’s “Eco-Who’s Who,” she is a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute. Anna’s writing has been published in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, and Canada’s Globe and Mail. She writes a bi-monthly column on sustainability for Spirituality and Health and contributes book reviews to the San Francisco Chronicle and the New Scientist.   For more information on our co-sponsors: Slow Food Triangle (www.slowfoodtriangle.org)           Transition Carrboro-Chapel Hill, visit: http://www.transitioncch.org/