Our health, our security, and our environment depend on developing local food systems and a truly sustainable agriculture, argues Michael Pollan–New York Times bestseller and Professor of Journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
On Thursday, October 29, Michael Pollan will sit down with Ecology Center’s Executive Director Martin Bourque to discuss the food systems in Ernest Callenbach’s 1975 utopian novel Ecotopia and our own ecotopian projections for 2050.
“For our society, the Covid-19 pandemic represents an ebb tide of historic proportions, one that is laying bare vulnerabilities and inequities that in normal times have gone undiscovered. Nowhere is this more evident than in the American food system.” –Michael Pollan, “The Sickness in Our Food Supply,” The New York Review of Books, May 12, 2020
What would a nation of sustainable food systems look like? And how would this change our lives? What has the pandemic shown us about our food systems in a national crisis? How do we break down the race and income barriers to equal access to healthy food? What fundamental truths are Americans missing when it comes to how we consume food?
Please join us on Thursday, October 29, for a lively and insightful discussion about our food systems and how we eat–an inescapable focal point of our lives and a common measurement of quality of life.
MICHAEL POLLAN on Ecotopia and The Future of Food
A Live Stream Discussion hosted by the Ecology Center
Thursday, October 29, 2020
7:00 – 8:30 pm PT