Community Conversation: Sustainable Food, By Default
Channel: Sierra Club Maine
Date: 2021-11-09

Our current food system will take us past 1.5 degrees of warming by 2050, while also driving water shortages, deforestation, and species extinction. Addressing this issue can seem daunting, especially because food is such a sensitive subject.

This presentation will explore why food is actually one of the most hopeful areas of climate action. We will focus on solutions informed by behavioral economics - strategies to nudge both individuals and institutions towards more sustainable choices, without taking options completely off the menu.

Katie Cantrell is the Director of Corporate Outreach for the Better Food Foundation, and the founder of the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition. For more than a decade, Katie has led workshops on the social and ecological hazards of industrial animal agriculture and consulted on food policy at universities, government agencies, and Fortune 500 corporations. Her materials have been used as a resource by food justice advocates around the world.