Monday, January 14, 2019

Does Your Box of “Ugly” Produce Really Help the Planet? Or Hurt it?

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Fascinating New Republic piece by Emily Atkin about the rise of food boxes that purport to reduce food waste. Readers of my book will realiz...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

Should we have a carbon tax for airline flights?

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I think so, and I wrote about why in this LA Times OpEd piece. I was stimulated to write this because of the recent UN IPCC report and then ...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Mixing mushrooms into hamburgers...

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An article in Nature talks about how by mixing in mushrooms with hamburgers we can reduce the carbon footprint of hamburgers. Sonic drive th...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

The opportunity cost of an animal based diets exceeds all food losses

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New article in PNAS shows how the   The opportunity cost of an animal based  diets exceeds all food losses . Che...
Monday, January 1, 2018

Electric Pressure Cooker cooking...

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Happy New Year! In a year where some might say that the sacred has become profane, but everyone would clearly agree that 'we live in i...
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Thursday, August 3, 2017

Environmental impact of dogs and cats...

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"US cats and dogs cause 25-30 percent of the environmental impact of meat consumption in this country. The nation's 163 million cat...
Wednesday, August 2, 2017

New OpEd on surviving in a post-truth world

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I just had an OpEd published on Project Syndicate on Surviving in a Post-Truth World .  The main point worth discussing over dinner and drin...