My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a Small Planet." I learned that if I could just show up, in this case, if I could just get myself out of bed, get to the computer in my tiny office at MIT, and start writing, help would start arriving.

The spirit that I am advocating is reframing how we view the world, and shifting from the negativity of lack and "not enough" to the positive frame of aligning with Nature.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).

There are surprising turning points; there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could be the straw.

Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for.

The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about.