Michael Pollan on Ecoptia and The Future of Food

What would a nation of sustainable food systems look like? And how would this change our lives? What has the pandemic shown us about our food systems in a national crisis? How do we break down the race and income barriers to equal access to healthy food? What fundamental truths are Americans missing when it comes to how we consume food?

On Thursday, October 29, Michael Pollan will sit down with Ecology Center's Executive Director Martin Bourque to discuss the food systems in Ernest Callenbach's 1975 utopian novel Ecotopia and our own ecotopian projections for 2050.

This episode is Episode #2 of Ecotopia 2050 A 5 part Speaker Discussion Series & Book Club. The speaker discussion series is paired with corresponding book club meetings that give participants a more intimate opportunity to discuss the themes of the book in the community.

Based on the 1975 blockbuster utopian novel Ecotopia, this discussion and book club event series revisit some of the futuristic visions of the Ernest Callenbach classic. His visionary ideas, and those of his generation, that he so skillfully captured in Ecotopia are a fascinating amalgam of technical, economic, societal, and cultural transformations. They are predictive on so many levels, and the series will explore what has come true, what remains on the list of things to do that were proposed, and what new visions we might begin to pull together in the construction of an updated Ecotopian vision of today.

Episode #2:
Featuring: Michael Pollan New York Times bestselling author
Ecotopia and The Future of Food
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2020, 7:00-8:30 PM
Platform: Zoom Webinar

For more information and to register:

https://ecologycenter.org/even...