One of our favorite things about creating our hotel's green program was building a library of resources for our guests. We are proud to offer quite a few books on all the topics we hold most dear: green business, green building and green living!
Author Michael Pollan, whose credits include
In Defense of Food: An Eaters Manifesto, The Omnivores Dilemma & The Botany of Desire: a Plant's-Eye View of the World, is someone whose work we are excited to share. "A contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, Pollan is the recipient of numerous journalistic awards, including the James Beard Award for best magazine series in 2003 and the Reuters-I.U.C.N. 2000 Global Award for Environmental Journalism. Pollan served for many years as executive editor of Harper’s Magazine and is now the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley. His articles have been anthologized in Best American Science Writing (2004); Best American Essays (1990 and 2003) and the Norton Book of Nature Writing."
In
In Defense of Food: An Eaters Manifesto, "Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. By urging us to once again eat food, he challenges the prevailing nutrient-by-nutrient approach -- what he calls nutritionism -- and proposes an alternative way of eating that is informed by the traditions and ecology of real, well-grown, unprocessed food. Our personal health, he argues, cannot be divorced from the health of the food chains of which we are part."
To find out more about this award winning writer please visit
www.michaelpollan.com.
