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Solar power booster and anti-nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman talks about his vision for a clean energy future, SOLARTOPIA. Anna LappÁ© talks about DIET FOR A HOT PLANET: The Climate Crisis At The End of Your Fork; it’s just out in paperback.

Our food system is a major contributor to the greenhouse gases that are playing havoc with the Earth’s climate, from cutting down forests for farmland, to raising meat animals in huge industrial operations, to the thousands of carbon spewing miles our food travels.

The connection between environment and food was first brought to public awareness by Frances Moore LappÁ©. Her hugely influential book, DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET, advocated vegetarianism as a healthy, environment friendly alternative to the predominant meat heavy diet Americans followed.

Now her daughter, Anna LappÁ©, has come out with DIET FOR A HOT PLANET. It’s about creating a climate friendly food system that is healthy, tasty, and sustainable.

Anna LappÁ© is also co-author, with Frances Moore LappÁ©, of HOPE’S EDGE and of GRUB (co-authored with Bryant Terry). A bestselling author, she is respected for her work on sustainability, food politics, globalization, and social change.

(This is an encore interview.)

Read an excerpt from DIET FOR A HOT PLANET