The Planetary Potential of the Food We Eat

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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.

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.