Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that they know where their food is coming from, and they can take their families out and see the farm and meet the farmer. That movement has helped create a new culture around food.

Beauty exists irrespective of financial circumstances.

How we frame the world - how we talk about it and define it - affects how we see things and how we live.

I was a compulsive eater in my late teens and until I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, so I know what it feels like when food becomes a threat.

I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge.

We evolved to be problem-solvers, to create, to be choosers of our own future!

With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible.