The Planetary Potential of the Food We Eat

March 26-29, 2023
Warrenton, Virginia

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RETREAT FOCUS

How might we inspire dietary choices that support thriving climate and planetary systems, including biodiversity, equity, and health?

Communications around what we should eat are often focused either on the harm we might cause by making the “wrong” choices, or on what products are “right”… But rarely are we inspired by these messages to recognize that what we eat can meaningfully contribute to things getting better within and around ourselves, and at scale. Our dietary choices can actually make a difference!

This retreat aims to unleash a tidal shift in how we convey the principles behind the planetary potential of food, including the transformative benefits to ourselves and the world.

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Emergent initiatives include:

  • Changing the research-based guidance around diet for climate impact into pathways for everyday choices, making it actionable and compelling for farmers, chefs, and eaters.

  • Aligning a coalition of major NGOs, think tanks, and institutions around the development of clear, effective, and united public guidance for everyday dietary choices for positive impact on health and climate.

  • Empowering young people as agents of change in the food system through a youth led, informed, and designed communications campaign focused on the nexus of diet and climate.

  • Intergenerational collaboration on a new set of stories and myths grounded in the understanding that we are not separate - from nature, from each other - as a way to inspire different relationships with food and the climate.

  • Bringing the dialog around diet and climate into communities most vulnerable to experiencing near term climate impact through events that gather people in their own places around a table for a meal and conversation.

The Participants

  • Adrian Lupscombe

    40 Acres Project

  • Betsy Taylor

    Breakthrough Strategies & Solutions

  • Christa Essig

    Compass at Google

  • Courtney Pineau

    Courtney Pineau

    Climate Collaborative

  • Crystal Wahpepah

    Wahpepah's Kitchen

  • Daniel Katz

    Founder/Board Chair, Rainforest Alliance & Lead Environmental Advisor, The Overbrook Foundation

  • Danielle Nierenberg

    Danielle Nierenberg

    Food Tank

  • Denise O'Brien

    Women, Food and Agriculture Network

  • Eric Smith

    Edacious // Grantham Foundation

  • Hari Pulapaka

    Hari Pulapaka

    Global Cooking School & Stetson University

  • Holly Bybee

    Cultural Conditions Project/MS Nutrition candidate/herbalism student

  • Huyen Nguyen

    Huyen Nguyen

    Volgenau Climate Initiative

  • Jenneffer Pulapaka

    Lifestyle Medicine Podiatric Surgeon

  • Jennifer Bushman

    Jennifer Bushman

    Fed by Blue

  • Jill Parsh

    Jill Parsh

    Volgenau Climate Initiative

  • June Jo Lee

    June Jo Lee

    Food Ethnographer

  • Karen Magid

    Huston-Tillotson University; Austin-Travis County Food Policy Board

  • Karen Washington

    Rise and Root Farm

  • Katharine Millonzi

    Volgenau Climate Initiative

  • Kelly Cleaver

    Kelly Cleaver

    FoodCorps

  • Kristin Coates

    SecondMuse

  • Lauren Yarmuth

    Lauren Yarmuth

    Volgenau Climate Initiative

  • Lynda Deakin

    Acre Venture Partners

  • Mackenzie Feldman

    Re:wild Your Campus

  • Mavis-Jay Sanders

    A Sanders Thing

  • Nancy Roman

    Nancy Roman

    Roman Leadership

  • Pete Pearson

    Pete Pearson

    WWF

  • Stuart Getty

    IDEO and personal consulting/gender education

  • Tuesday Ryan-Hart

    The Outside