Mark Bittman’s new book Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal tells the story of how food has shaped human history and our society. Bittman is an American food journalist, author of more than 30 books on food, and former columnist for The New York Times. He is founder of The [...]
INTERVIEW In the U.S. and around the world, there is a growing interest in reconnecting city and countryside, including through stronger regional foodsheds, to cope with rising threats to human and environmental health. Examples of these threats include more frequent extreme weather events, land consumption and environmental degradation, as well as rise of diet-related non-communicable [...]
FOOD POLICY FROM ELSEWHERE In April 2019 New York City passed its “Climate Mobilization Act” and released OneNYC 2050, a long-term strategic plan for the city’s resilient and equitable development. The plan acknowledges that “[w]e need to eliminate our contributions to climate-change-causing GHG emissions and build neighborhoods and infrastructure that support sustainable lifestyles and consumption, [...]
Amy Kwan is a Public Health Research Consultant and recent graduate of the Doctor of Public Health program at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. She is also an experienced staff person for several youth and community organizations and has participated in many participatory community health research studies. Amy’s doctoral dissertation [...]
Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities—in financial, political, cultural, environmental, and demographic terms. In the new book, The Global Cities: Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the global emergence of these urban [...]
