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Green-leaning readers applauded our report, which argued that global warming has tipped the planet's climate into crisis. But others questioned whether humanity can affect the forces of nature...
...talked about environmentally friendly products 20 years ago, most people would have envisaged a hand-stitched hemp-fiber bag or mud-colored recycled stationery. But these days, the state of the planet is a broader concern, and the line between green goods and those of the regular kind is blurring. Here are four products that will make you look chic while feeling righteous...
CLAIM TO FAME Since co-founding the Small Planet Institute and Fund with her mother, author Frances Moore Lappé, the Brooklyn resident has been raising money for environmental organizations around the world, like a quarter of a million dollars for Kenya's Green Belt Movement, which has planted 30 million trees since 1977. As a Food and Society Policy fellow at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, she travels the country educating Americans about the connection between food policy and public health...
...Brown University and spent a year teaching history in South Africa. She earned a master's degree in economic and political development from Columbia University, turning her thesis into a book about the root causes of hunger and poverty, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet, co-written with her mom. "Globally, we're producing enough food not only to be well fed but to get chubby," says Lappé. "If more citizens rather than corporations had a say in decisions being made about our food, there wouldn't be any hunger...
...that revolutionary sense of wonder and possibility, combined with industry savvy and a highly relevant message of global health and integrity, that has helped Whole Foods become the fourth largest food chain in the U.S. and the biggest and most profitable retailer of natural and organic foods on the planet...