Conference of Dr. Oppenlander that addresses the fact that our current choice of foods is the leading contributing factor for Global Depletion—detrimental climate change, the loss of our land and freshwater, devastation of our oceans, rapid loss of biodiversity and ecosystems, world hunger and food insecurity, and loss of our own health. Since 1976, he has extensively studied the effect our food choices have on our health and the immense impact those choices have on our environment. He speaks from the heart while offering compelling and oft shocking research about food choice and how it silently remains the single-most destructive aspect of global depletion. With his work, Dr. Oppenlander offers his perspectives and solutions to our food choices and putting an end to the destruction of our natural resources. Dr. Richard Oppenlanders perspectives include, We should all be committed to understanding the reality and consequences of our diet, the footprint it makes on our environment, and seek food products that are in the best interest of all living things. Sustainability and Food Choice: Why Eating Local, Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Wont Work. Presented at the March, 2013, McDougall Advanced Study Weekend: Author of the groundbreaking book, Food Choice and Sustainability, Dr. Oppenlander is a consultant and researcher whose award-winning book, Comfortably Unaware, has been endorsed as a must read by Ellen DeGeneres, Dr. Jane Goodall, and Dr. Neal Barnard, among many others. Dr. Oppenlander is a much sought after lecturer and has been a keynote speaker for several conferences and events and has presented lectures and workshops at numerous universities and corporations. Dr. Oppenlander also serves as an advisor to municipalities in the U.S. and to world hunger projects that are designing programs from his model of multidimensional sustainability. He is president and founder of an organic vegan food production and education business, as well as the founder of the non-profit organization, Inspire Awareness Now. What we choose to eat is killing our planet and us, yet use of the word sustainable is ubiquitous. Explanation of this incongruity lies in the fact that sustainability efforts are rarely positioned to include food choice in an accurate or adequate manner. This is due to a number of influencing cultural, social, and political factors that disable our food production systems and limit our base of knowledge—falsely guiding us on a path of pseudo sustainability, while we devastate the ecosystems that support us, cause mass extinctions, and generate narrowing time lines because of our global footprint that will ultimately jeopardize our very survival as a civilization or species. Dr. Oppenlanders goal with this book, Food Choice And Sustainability is to increase awareness in order to effect positive change—before it is too late. This is a groundbreaking book, and given the urgency and magnitude of the problem, its a book that anyone who cares about our future and that of other species should read —individuals, academic institutions, businesses, organizations, and policy makers. Categories of global depletion are detailed, widely held myths are debunked, critical disconnects are exposed, and unique, profound solutions are offered. This book also unveils a new model of multidimensional sustainability for developing countries to eradicate world hunger and poverty as it compels us all to become aware of the enormous effect of our food choices, make necessary changes, and then, inspire others to do the same.
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