Michael Grunwald

Eating the Earth: How Do We Feed Ourselves and Protect the Planet? Debate with Tim Bowles

Michael Grunwald is debating Berkeley agroecologist Tim Bowles on the Churchtown stage about the best way to produce food into the future in order to mitigate climate change and restore biodiversity. In his new book “We Are Eating the Earth” Michael explores the urgent need to produce more food on less land to feed a growing population.

This is an important debate, addressing an ongoing debate about the role of agriculture in climate and food security. Is organic less intensive, and thus more damaging to the climate?

These are complicated subjects, and we are pleased to further the public discourse. Michael is a deep champion of “landsparing,” which promotes the idea that through more intensive agriculture we can farm fewer acres, thus aiding carbon sequestration by protecting native habitat.

Grunwald is an award-winning journalist who is a contributor to the New York Times opinion section. He is a former staff writer for The Washington Post, Time, and Politico Magazine. He is also the best-selling author of The Swamp and The New New Deal. He has won numerous honors for his work, including the George Polk Award for national reporting and the Worth Bingham Prize for investigative reporting. He lives in Miami with his wife, Cristina Dominguez, their two kids, Max and Lina, and their three deranged dogs.