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Richard Oppenlander

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Richard Oppenlander


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Dr. Oppenlander is a sustainability consultant, researcher, and author whose book, "Comfortably Unaware", has been endorsed as a "must read" by Ellen DeGeneres, Dr. Michael Klapper, Dr. Jane Goodall, and Dr. Neal Barnard, and many others. Dr. Oppenlander's most recent book titled, "Food Choice and Sustainability", has won numerous awards including the 2014 International Book Award for Social Change and the 2014 Green Book Festival Award and is being used by think tanks and strategists for developing initiatives to advance change.

Dr. Oppenlander has spent the past 40 years studying the effects food choices have on our planet and on us. He started an organic plant-based production company, operates an animal rescue sanctuary (with his wife Ji
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Average rating: 4.06 · 607 ratings · 83 reviews · 3 distinct worksSimilar authors
Comfortably Unaware: Global...

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“While 45 percent of the land on earth is used to raise animals and food to feed them, it is estimated that only 5 percent is used to grow plant-based foods consumed directly by humans. This 5 percent, though, supplies 80 percent of the calories consumed by humans.15”
Richard Oppenlander, Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won't Work

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
—John Muir”
Richard Oppenlander, Comfortably Unaware: What We Choose to Eat Is Killing Us and Our Planet

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”
—Confucius”
Richard Oppenlander, Comfortably Unaware: What We Choose to Eat Is Killing Us and Our Planet



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