CLEAN Teleconference Call May 11, 2021
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Using the Food We Love and Need to Tell the Climate Change Story
Abstract: Climate change is rapidly making the business of getting the foods we love and need to our table more challenging—just about everything on the menu is changing. Plants, the basis of life, require the right temperatures, water, soil, air, and sunlight. All but sunlight is changing and having subtle and, in many cases, ominous impacts on our foods and beverages. The flavors of teas, the availability of natural vanilla and avocados, vitamins in rice, and the source of our wines are all changing. Given the cultural, historical, and personal connections everyone has to food, this climate change story must be told. There are unlimited ways to educate others about climate change through food as well as share the many ways we can address the challenges facing our food. The webinar will be based on—Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Food we Love and Need and a companion website. The changing menu is seen as a way to join forces—consumers, producers, chefs, restaurateurs, and food businesses—to find a common ground and draw more attention and action to address this grand challenge of climate change. We all eat.
Bio: Michael Hoffmann dedicates all of his time to the grand challenge of climate change and helps people understand and appreciate what is happening through food. Melting glaciers are bad enough but the loss of coffee is downright terrifying – this keeps him going. He tells the climate change story with passion, a little humor, and without doom and gloom. It's a science-based message about what is happening and what we all can do about it. He has published climate change articles in the popular press - The Hill, Fortune, and USA Today and co-authored a book – Our changing menu: Climate and the foods we love and need(Cornell Press 2021). His TEDx Talk – Climate change: It's time to raise our voices has been well received. Previous positions he has held at Cornell include Executive Director of the Cornell Institute for Climate Change Solutions, Director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, associate director of Cornell Cooperative Extension, and director of the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program. He is a professor emeritus in the Department of Entomology. He received his BS Degree from the University ofWisconsin, MS from the University of Arizona and PhD from the University of California, Davis.
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