ESSENTIAL READING
Climate Action and Sustainable Development are Inseparable http://sdg.iisd.org/commentary/guest-articles/climate-action-and-sustainable-development-are-inseparable/
This Is the Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry https://www.outsideonline.com/2399736/impossible-foods-beyond-meat-alt-meat
Plant-Based Diet Could Help Fight Climate Change Says New UN Report https://www.plantbasednews.org/news/report-climate-change-plant-based-diet
We Must Change Food Production to Save the World https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/03/ipcc-land-use-food-production-key-to-climate-crisis-leaked-report
The Rise of the Pea: How an Unassuming Legume Emerged as a Frontrunner in the Race to Replace Meat and Dairy https://time.com/5652178/pea-meat-dairy-alternative/
Cooking Stirs the Pot for Social Change https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/affordable-housing/cooking-stirs-the-pot-for-social-change-20180627?fbclid=IwAR1VL6uG9v2y-Qx60JkFlSD8DpHz7vpriSolkZs7nS8eOFNygrUHkDjLMB4
Globalisation is dead and we need to invent a new world order https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/06/28/globalisation-is-dead-and-we-need-to-invent-a-new-world-order
How to Not Be (Completely) Depressed About Climate Change https://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/how-to-not-be-completely-depressed-about-climate-change-20190107?fbclid=IwAR3DUSnaefKrBhXJf9tLSKdzaG4GQFDeCJmMh3j3SRXSg2DMyzsqINZrSIw
Don't ignore the perils of complacent incrementalism https://www.greenbiz.com/article/dont-ignore-perils-complacent-incrementalism
Eight essential steps to transform our economy https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/eight-essential-steps-transform-our-economy/
Amnesty International to Divest from Fossil Fuel Companies https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/08/amnesty-international-to-divest-from-fossil-fuel-companies/
EPA Overview of Greenhouse Gasses https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases
The Science of Eating https://www.scienceofpeople.com/the-science-of-eating/
WeForum Alternative Proteins White Paper http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_White_Paper_Alternative_Proteins.pdf
Our Meatless Future: How The $90B Global Meat Market Gets Disrupted https://www.cbinsights.com/research/future-of-meat-industrial-farming/
New IPCC Report (August 2019): https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl-report-download-page/
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDG’S) RESOURCES
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are defined in a list of 169 SDG Targets. Progress towards these Targets is agreed to be tracked by 232 unique Indicators. Here is the full list of definitions.
The Definitive List of Courses for Learning About the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals https://www.classcentral.com/report/united-nations-sdg-courses/
Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017
Case Studies – Achieving SDGs (UNDP) Sustainable development case studies from the UNDP SDG Fund on best practices.
Measuring Distance to the SDGs Targets Pilot Study on Measuring OECD Countries’ Starting Positions on the SDGs
SDG Index & Dashboard SDG Measures at the country level.
SDG Industry Matrix Industry-specific examples and ideas for corporate action related to the SDGs
SDG Mapping Tool (ITU) International Telecommunication Union (ITU)’s contributions to the SDGs; mapping ITU strategic and operational plans along the SDGs. ITU is a unit of the UN.
U.S. National Statistics for the UN Sustainable Development Goals
UN Global Compact Resources to guide companies and other stakeholders to action-oriented platforms and tools to support SDGs
The World's Largest Lesson - SDG Promotion & Education Resources
BOOKS FOR A DEEPER DIVE
Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074ZW6PBG/?coliid=I3UFCEOTOM7IL0&colid=1A8PPU5HZ56QK&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J5ED8CE/?coliid=INRY038FKBGZN&colid=1A8PPU5HZ56QK&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate https://www.amazon.com/This-Changes-Everything-Capitalism-Climate-ebook/dp/B00JHIDON6/ref=pd_sim_351_13?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00JHIDON6&pd_rd_r=532c3933-eb2d-49de-881f-8ee729fc6403&pd_rd_w=disej&pd_rd_wg=neeny&pf_rd_p=90485860-83e9-4fd9-b838-b28a9b7fda30&pf_rd_r=VWJNR925R08MNX8Y9W5J&psc=1&refRID=VWJNR925R08MNX8Y9W5J
A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541724100/?coliid=I3CXETI1EU5R54&colid=1A8PPU5HZ56QK&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KVI4HLO/?coliid=I16CVMDZLVTXKA&colid=1A8PPU5HZ56QK&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525576703/?coliid=I3EJYBXF92HJPC&colid=1A8PPU5HZ56QK&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Weather-Saving-Breakfast-ebook/dp/B07MYXDK94/ref=pd_sim_351_4/135-8866177-6534155?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07MYXDK94&pd_rd_r=359b747a-5c27-4f93-88d4-49301211aabd&pd_rd_w=gk0T4&pd_rd_wg=pj169&pf_rd_p=90485860-83e9-4fd9-b838-b28a9b7fda30&pf_rd_r=7H1MZR3MZ96TGM3F4Y92&psc=1&refRID=7H1MZR3MZ96TGM3F4Y92
Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AI2FNVG/?coliid=I13V2VPBKAGSIK&colid=1A8PPU5HZ56QK&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0798VPMVR/?coliid=I11XME88G7O028&colid=1A8PPU5HZ56QK&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FQWP6QX/?coliid=I1KH72GXZZ3XYE&colid=1A8PPU5HZ56QK&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Feeding You Lies: How to Unravel the Food Industry's Playbook and Reclaim Your Health https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D6CJ85T/?coliid=I1QWAW7L05BGJO&colid=1A8PPU5HZ56QK&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much—and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CUUEY7I/?coliid=I242O0FEGY0GWQ&colid=1A8PPU5HZ56QK&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Formerly Known As Food: How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077XLLL6M/?coliid=I2KP1STD4B8VC9&colid=1A8PPU5HZ56QK&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups (Food, Health, and the Environment) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071CW55SS/?coliid=IRO5CJRC1B2J&colid=1A8PPU5HZ56QK&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Like-You-Care-Examination-ebook/dp/B00DLTN43C/ref=pd_sim_351_5/135-8866177-6534155?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00DLTN43C&pd_rd_r=359b747a-5c27-4f93-88d4-49301211aabd&pd_rd_w=gk0T4&pd_rd_wg=pj169&pf_rd_p=90485860-83e9-4fd9-b838-b28a9b7fda30&pf_rd_r=7H1MZR3MZ96TGM3F4Y92&psc=1&refRID=7H1MZR3MZ96TGM3F4Y92
Concentration and Power in the Food System: Who Controls What We Eat? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017EAUXQO/?coliid=I327X3GKJY49E5&colid=1A8PPU5HZ56QK&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won't Work https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GS3UI8C/?coliid=ID6AY132RV2JR&colid=1A8PPU5HZ56QK&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NA6SQFF/?coliid=I2K9UG1OX85B3R&colid=1A8PPU5HZ56QK&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Superpower: One Man's Quest to Transform American Energy https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MD6HV8T/?coliid=I3LIZKXPKZPE06&colid=1A8PPU5HZ56QK&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Life After Carbon: The Next Global Transformation of Cities https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KYVSWCT/?coliid=I7SJW66ADZ686&colid=1A8PPU5HZ56QK&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GMYJJWM/?coliid=I3M9VH29EA1NS2&colid=1A8PPU5HZ56QK&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Edible: An Adventure into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E3E4XN4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003KN2O6M/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DVF13AW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Hope-Cities-Businesses-Citizens-ebook/dp/B01MCZI66A
A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power: Your Action Handbook to Learn the Science, Find Your Voice, and Help Solve the Climate Crisis https://www.amazon.com/Inconvenient-Sequel-Handbook-Science-Climate-ebook/dp/B01MZASPKA
Being the Change: Live Well & Spark a Climate Revolution https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073SN835P/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
The Layman’s Guide To Climate Change https://www.amazon.com/Laymans-Guide-Climate-Change/dp/1729081223?tag=uuid10-20
Sustainability Made Simple https://www.amazon.com/Sustainability-Made-Simple-Changes-Impact/dp/1538120100?tag=uuid10-20
The Climate Report: National Climate Assessment-Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Report-National-Assessment-Impacts-Adaptation-ebook/dp/B07LDTK3C7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
The Fate of Food https://www.amazon.com/Fate-Food-Bigger-Hotter-Smarter/dp/080418903X?tag=uuid10-20
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? https://www.amazon.com/Falter-Human-Game-Begun-Itself/dp/1250178266?tag=uuid10-20
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming https://www.amazon.com/Uninhabitable-Earth-Life-After-Warming/dp/0525576703?tag=uuid10-20
In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World https://www.amazon.com/Search-Canary-Tree-Scientist-Changing/dp/154169712X?tag=uuid10-20
Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States https://www.amazon.com/Pathways-Decarbonization-United-Environmental-Institute/dp/1585761974?tag=uuid10-20
The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change: Second Edition https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Persons-Guide-Climate-Change/dp/1944970398?tag=uuid10-20
Narratives of Low-Carbon Transitions (Open Access): Understanding Risks and Uncertainties https://www.amazon.com/Narratives-Low-Carbon-Transitions-Open-Access/dp/1138311588?tag=uuid10-20
Climate Change Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Change-Reconsidered-II-Fossil/dp/1934791458?tag=uuid10-20
This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07R57LTG5/?coliid=IHKMX61JLI1KV&colid=1A8PPU5HZ56QK&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
KEY PLAYERS: ALTERNATIVE PROTEIN
Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat, Garden Protein International, Morningstar Farms, Quorn Foods, Maple Leaf Foods, Tyson Foods, Ripple Foods, New Wave Foods
An interesting graphic illustrating the variety of investors involved in said companies:
KEY PLAYERS: CELLULAR / LAB GROWN MEAT
Balletic Foods (meat), Blue Nalu (fish), Finless Foods (fish), JUST (beef waygu), Kiran Meats (meat), Memphis Meats (meat), Mosa Meat (beef), Mission Barns (meat), New Age Meats (pork), Wild Earth (pet food), Wild Type (meat), Aleph Farms (meat), Future Meat Technologies (chicken), Super Meat (chicken), Meatable (beef), Appleton Farms (beef), SeaFuture (fish), Integriculture (meat), Shiok Meats (seafood), Avant Meats (meat), Higher Steaks (beef), Biftek (beef)
KEY PLAYERS: TARGETING FOOD WASTE
Spoiler Alert, Full Harvest, Apeel Sciences, Mycoworks, Regrained
KEY PLAYERS: INCREASING FARM PRODUCTIVITY
Blue River Technology, Abundant Robotics, Descartes Labs, DJI, Prospera
REGULATORY WATCH: ALTERNATIVE PROTEINS
Forbes: Plant-Based Advocates Pursue Challenges To State Meat Labeling Laws https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetforgrieve/2019/08/15/plant-based-advocates-pursue-challenges-to-state-meat-labeling-laws/#76d822ff1d2c
These 3 lawsuits are protecting the rights of companies like Beyond Meat to call their products 'burgers', 'hot dogs,' and other words associated with meat https://www.businessinsider.nl/what-states-have-laws-what-to-call-plant-based-meat-2019-7?international=true&r=US
NPR: What Gets To Be A 'Burger'? States Restrict Labels On Plant-Based Meat https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/07/23/744083270/what-gets-to-be-a-burger-states-restrict-labels-on-plant-based-meat
NYTimes: What’s Meat Got to Do With It? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/style/plant-based-meat-law.html
Future Food: Why Labeling Laws Won’t Slow Plant-Based Meat https://thespoon.tech/future-food-why-labeling-laws-wont-slow-plant-based-meat/
As War Over Plant-Based Food Labeling Wages On In The US, UK Sub-Committee Concludes Consumers Not Misled By Vegetarian “Burgers” https://www.dailyintakeblog.com/2019/07/as-war-over-plant-based-food-labeling-wages-on-in-the-us-uk-sub-committee-concludes-consumers-not-misled-by-vegetarian-burgers/#page=1
MEDIA / NEWSLETTER RESOURCES
KEY ORGANIZATIONS LEADING THE WAY
International Renewable Energy Agency
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Global Alliance for the Future of Food
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
United Nations Environment Assembly
COOKBOOKS & BLOGS
The Art of Plant-Based Cheesemaking
Bosh!
Chloe Flavor
Everyday Cooking by Minimalist Baker
The First Mess*
The Homemade Vegan Pantry
Hot for Food Vegan Comfort Classics*
Minimalist Baker’s Everyday Cooking by Dana Shultz
My New Roots
Oh She Glows by Angela Liddon
PlantLab
The Plant Power Way
The Plant Power Italia
Plant Powered Families by Dreena Burton
Raw Food/Real World
Raw. Vegan. Not Gross.
Rawsome Vegan Baking by Emily Von Euw*
Smith and Daughters
Thrive Energy Cookbook
The Thrive Diet
Thrive Energy Cookbook
This Cheese is Nuts
Thug Kitchen
Vegan 100
Vegan For Everybody by America’s Test Kitchen
Veganomicon
The Wicked Healthy Cookbook
Recipe Blogs
Bosh!
Hot For Food
Minimalist Baker
This Rawsome Vegan Life
Vegan Richa’s Everyday Kitchen