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12 Children’s Books to Grow Future Food Leaders

12 Children’s Books to Grow Future Food Leaders

By Danielle Nierenberg, Katherine Walla and Hayly Hoch This holiday season, we’re highlighting 12 children’s books that will educate and inspire future eaters, food producers and innovators. From stories exploring community gardens and ugly vegetables, to tales about feeding a hungry stranger and slaying “the climate dragon,” these books discuss deep topics in a personalized […]

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    19 Books to Take the Food System Back

    19 Books to Take the Food System Back

    By Danielle Nierenberg & Katherine Walla Food Tank is highlighting 19 books about food and agriculture to fall for this season! These books explore food policy, nutrition science, healthy eating, food justice and the challenges of farming. Readers will be able to immerse themselves in new roles as activists, brewers, chefs, farmers, politicians and more. […]

    Beach Reads and Big Ideas: The 15 Best New Eco-Books for July

    Beach Reads and Big Ideas: The 15 Best New Eco-Books for July

    By John R. Platt Looking for a few new books to read during your summer vacation? Look no further than these 15 new environmentally themed titles coming out in July. Publishers have scheduled some thought-provoking new titles for just about every type of reader, from nature lovers to history buffs, and from political activists to […]

    One Mom’s Campaign to Save the Swimmers

    One Mom’s Campaign to Save the Swimmers

    By Stacy Malkan “I want grandkids one day, so sperm is important to me because I’ve got three young boys,” said mom, author and social media genius Leah Segedie in a video introducing her “Save the Swimmers” campaign. “This is where my youngest rolls his eyes at me and says, ‘I know Mom. Avoiding plastics […]

    13 Female ‘Cli-Fi’ Writers Who Are Inspiring A Better Future

    13 Female ‘Cli-Fi’ Writers Who Are Inspiring A Better Future

    By Carly Nairn For International Women’s Day, we decided to honor those lady writers bringing climate change to everyone’s minds and eyeballs through world-building, apocalyptic scenarios. Pandemics, extreme weather, droughts and a militarized process of securing natural resources are common elements in climate fiction or “cli-fi”—and our anxiety-induced states make this the perfect time for […]