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Borges, Marco

Summary: "Accessible and easy-to-follow, The Greenprint is a movement to embrace your absolute best and healthiest life. Through his more than two decades of experience working with clients, including some of the world's biggest celebrities, and spearheading exercise and nutrition research, Borges developed the groundbreaking "22 Laws of Plants," which he's determined are the most important plant-based...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 BOR

Johnson, Daniel

Summary: "Envision a brighter future with this STEM-based subset of True Books.Thanks to the development of agriculture, our Earth can feed the almost 8 billion people that call it home. But the challenge facing us today is how to make the practice of large-scale farming sustainable. We have learned how to use alternative energies - like solar and wind power - to run our farms. We have also learned how...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 338.1 JOH

Roberts, Paul

Contents: Starving for progress (history) -- Its so easy now -- Buy one, get one free -- Tipping the scales -- Eating for strength -- The end of hunger -- We are what we eat -- How long can this go on? -- Magic pill/hair of the dog -- Food fight -- Nouvelle cuisine.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Company 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 ROB

Gustafson, Katherine.

Summary: "A fascinating exploration of America's food innovators, that gives us hopeful alternatives to the industrial food system described in works like Michael Pollan's bestselling Omnivore's Dilemma Change Comes to Dinner takes readers into the farms, markets, organizations, businesses and institutions across America that are pushing for a more sustainable food system in America. Gustafson...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 GUS

Roberts, Paul

Summary: Takes a close-up look at the modern food system to reveal how we make, market, and consume food and how this has led to inequities in the global market, analyzing the dangerous impact of chemicals and destructive farming techniques, food contamination, and disease, as well as what needs to be done to address the situation before it is too late.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor 2008

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 363.8 ROB

Lapp,̌ Anna

Summary: "In 1971, Frances Moore Lappe's Diet for a Small Planet sparked a revolution in how we think about hunger, alerting millions to the hidden environmental and social impacts of our food choices. Now, nearly four decades later, her daughter, Anna Lappe, picks up the conversation. In her new book, the younger Lappe exposes another hidden cost of our food system: the climate crisis." "While you may...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.19 LAP

Saladino, Dan

Summary: "Over the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat, and done so ruthlessly. The numbers are stark: Of the roughly six thousand different plants once consumed by human beings, only nine remain major staples today. Just three of these-rice, wheat, and corn-now provide fifty percent of all our calories. Dig deeper and the trends are more worrisome still: The source of much...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3009 SAL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.3009 SAL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3009 SAL

Summary: Narrated by Kate Winslet, this entertaining and surprising documentary will challenge the way you look at the food industry. What is the true cost of food? Who pays the price? Featuring shocking undercover footage and poignant first-hand accounts from indigenous people, this one-of-a-kind documentary will permanently change your perception of food and its connection to the future of our planet.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EAT

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