Best-selling author, prize-winning journalist and New York Times corresponding writer Michael Grunwald will discuss how to feed the world without frying it and how to fill nearly 10 billion bellies by 2050 without tearing down an acre of rainforest every six seconds. 

Telling the stories and lessons from his new book, Grunwald will discuss how the world, after decades of ignoring the climate problem at the center of our plates, has pivoted to making it worse by making it harder to grow more food with less land. But the book also tells the stories of the dynamic scientists and entrepreneurs pursuing real solutions. The book particularly chronicles the uphill battles of Princeton’s “brilliant, relentless, unforgettable” Senior Research Scholar Tim Searchinger against bad science and bad politics, both driven by the overwhelming influence of agricultural interests. The book illuminates a path that could save our planetary home for ourselves and future generations — through better policy, technology and behavior, as well as a new land ethic recognizing that “every acre is sacred.”

The talk is open to the public. Registration is required, here.