If you're looking for some inspiring summer reading, check out Cool Cuisine: Taking the Bite out of Global Warming. Coauthored by a chef (Laura Stec) and a climate scientist (Eugene Cordero), the book calls the standard American diet "a hummer on a plate."

In an engaging, easy-to-read format packed with stories, recipes, and shopping tips, the book explains the connection between food and the climate and presents simple personal solutions.

While they acknowledge that changing your diet won't single-handedly solve global warming, Stec and Cordero offer readers tools for evaluating the carbon "foodprint" of commonly eaten foods and a three-step plan for reducing the carbon impact of daily meals.

Locate the book www.globalwarmingdiet.org/book

Discussion question:
Can you recommend any other books that explain the connection between food and the climate and presents simple personal solutions for reducing the carbon impact of the meals we eat?

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