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PYP 065: Alissa Bilfield and Adam Aronovitz on The Cookbook Project, Starting a Big-Hearted Non-Profit on a Tiny-Ass Budget, and the Problem as the Solution

October 15, 2014

Alissa Bilfield and Adam Aronovitz are co-founders of The Cookbook Project, an amazingly inspiring, effective, and elegant not-for-profit dedicated to the fine mostly-lost art of home cooking.

With projects in 35 US states and over 20 countries around the world, Alissa and Adam are empowering communities to reclaim their culinary roots and break free from the industrial food system that creates disease, dependence, and displacement.

PYP 060: Sean Kane on Automobile Safety, Runaway Computer Code, and the Promise and Perils of Technology

September 23, 2014

Sean Kane is president of Safety Research and Strategy, and founder of The Safety Institute.

From his early days in the belly of the beast as a claims adjuster for the tire industry, to his work on the front lines with Ralph Nader’s Institute for Auto Safety, to his own work making companies pay for their negligence, Sean has seen it all as an insider.

He fights tirelessly (oh, did a bad pun just slip into this blog?) to hold manufacturers and marketers accountable for the damage their products cause.

And lest you peg him an anti-technology crusader, he’s also an organic gardner and supporter of the use of appropriate technology to solve societal and agricultural problems.

PYP 057: Emily Nolan on Radical Honesty, Radical Kindness, Radical Self-Acceptance, and Going “Topless”

September 17, 2014

Emily Nolan is one of my heroes. She’s an internationally sought after model, a former Olympic trainee, a serial entrepreneur, and a tireless advocate for kindness, self-acceptance, and positive body image.

As the founder of MyKindofLife.com, Emily writes and creates media that provides “inspiration for kind people.”

And as the founder of the non-profit “Topless,” Emily empowers women and men to accept and love their own bodies in a public way, through yoga classes and other live events.

PYP 055: John Pierre on Fueling Ourselves for Action and Compassion

September 15, 2014

John Pierre is fitness trainer to the stars, including Ellen DeGeneres, Pamela Anderson, and Emily Deschanel. He’s also a tireless advocate for the voiceless, powerless, and dispossessed: animals, the aged, and abused women.

China Study co-author T. Colin Campbell on writing WHOLE

September 12, 2014

In 2004, T. Colin Campbell rocked the worlds of nutrition and science with his outspoken and powerful book, The China Study. Nine years later, Dr. Campbell is back, and feistier than ever, taking on the medical, research, government, media, non-profit, food, and supplement industries. Nutrition, he asserts, is the “master key” that controls our health….

PYP 053: Dan Hanley: The Gay Vegans

September 11, 2014

When Dan Hanley was in the navy, he first encountered cultures where meat wasn’t the center of every meal. In this interview, done live at a Vegan conference in May 2013, he discusses his 17 year journey into ethical veganism and healthy plant-based eating.

PYP 052: Michele Simon on the Unholy Influence of the Junk Food Industry

September 10, 2014

In WHOLE, we wrote an entire chapter about the sleazy influence of the junk food industry on the powerful Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Michele Simon of Eat Drink Politics is a public health lawyer whose investigations and advocacy have shined a bright and uncomfortable light on these shenanigans.

In January 2013 she published an in-depth expose, titled “And Now a Word From Our Sponsors.”

PYP 051: John Robbins: “Speak to the Queen and the Queen Will Reply”

September 9, 2014

Wow, a second interview with John Robbins!

After the first one, John graciously contacted me because he felt he had more to say about advocacy and persuasion.

I wasn’t about to say no.

PYP 050: John Robbins: Rebel, Peacemaker, Pragmatist

September 8, 2014

John Robbins rose to prominence with the 1987 publication of his book Diet for a New America. The young heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire (and fortune) put out an eloquent and powerful call to action against the consumption of animal-based foods.

As I indicate at the beginning of the interview, Diet for a New America changed my life for the better as much as any other book I’ve read. So I was thrilled to get the chance to speak with this man who has been a hero of mine for 23 years.

PYP 041: Nick Freudenberg on 5 Lethal But Legal Industries

August 28, 2014

Nicholas Freudenberg is Distinguished Professor, Public Health and Social/Personality Psychology at Hunter College campus of the City University of New York (CUNY).

His recent book, Lethal but Legal: Corporations, Consumption and Protecting Public Health, is a shocking expose of the way five industries – pharmaceutical, tobacco, alcohol, food, and automotive – literally get away with murder.

PYP 065: Alissa Bilfield and Adam Aronovitz on The Cookbook Project, Starting a Big-Hearted Non-Profit on a Tiny-Ass Budget, and the Problem as the Solution

PYP 060: Sean Kane on Automobile Safety, Runaway Computer Code, and the Promise and Perils of Technology

PYP 057: Emily Nolan on Radical Honesty, Radical Kindness, Radical Self-Acceptance, and Going “Topless”

PYP 055: John Pierre on Fueling Ourselves for Action and Compassion

China Study co-author T. Colin Campbell on writing WHOLE

PYP 053: Dan Hanley: The Gay Vegans

PYP 052: Michele Simon on the Unholy Influence of the Junk Food Industry

PYP 051: John Robbins: “Speak to the Queen and the Queen Will Reply”

PYP 050: John Robbins: Rebel, Peacemaker, Pragmatist

PYP 041: Nick Freudenberg on 5 Lethal But Legal Industries

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