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1. Jessica Fanzo, (2021). Can fixing dinner fix the planet? John Hopkins University Press, reviewed by Kathleen Kevany

   19 Mar 2025 | Review | Contributor(s):

   By Kathleen May Kevany

   Tasks undertaken at home have influence around the world. Eating patterns that citizens adopt or support have diverse impacts on the planet. What we fix for dinner may well help to fix the planet...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7789/?v=1

2. Sustainable Diets: How Ecological Nutrition Can Transform Consumption and the Food System by Pamela Mason and Tim Lang

   19 Mar 2025 | Review | Contributor(s):

   By Jennifer Sumner

   This path-breaking book situates the thorny issue of diets firmly within what has been called the Anthropocene—the era of human-induced changes to the planet. Since many of these changes are...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7593/?v=1

3. Can we eat our way to a healthy and ecologically sustainable food system?

   19 Mar 2025 | Review | Contributor(s):

   By Barbara Seed, Cecilia Rocha

   The food system is a major contributor to climate change, biodiversity loss, eutrophication and deforestation. This article examines national dietary guidelines as a way to shift dietary patterns...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7557/?v=1

4. “Ditch red meat and dairy, and don’t bother with local food”: The problem with universal dietary advice aiming to save the planet (and your health)

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Ryan M Katz-Rosene

   In recent years there have been increasing calls for “global dietary transition” in order to save the planet and improve human health. One troubling development associated with this is the attempt...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7496/?v=1