Lecture: We Are Eating the Earth
Monday, September 14, 2026
5:15pm - 6:30pm
1 HSW CEU Credit will be offered
Thomson Hall (Room 202), Richardson Memorial Hall
Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70118
This lecture is open to the public.
Invited lecture "We Are Eating the Earth," will be presented by Michael Grunwald, best-selling author, award-winning journalist, and a contributing writer for The New York Times. It is part of the Fall 2026 Lecture Series and Public Programs: "Emergency: Planning and Adaptation."
LECTURE SUMMARY
Even if we all stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, the food we eat and the farms that grow it would still threaten our planet and our climate. Agriculture is by far the largest driver of deforestation, biodiversity loss, water pollution and water shortages--and unlike energy, it's a problem that we haven't really started to solve. We Are Eating the Earth book will be on sale at the event.
This lecture is supported by Tulane Center on Climate Change and Urbanism.
ABOUT THE LECTURER
Michael Grunwald
Best-selling author, award-winning journalist, and a contributing writer for The New York Times.
Michael Grunwald is a best-selling author, award-winning journalist, and a contributing writer for The New York Times opinion section. Simon & Schuster just published his third critically acclaimed book, We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate.
Over three decades in journalism, Mike has covered American policy and politics as a staff writer for The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, and Politico Magazine. He has won the George Polk Award for national reporting and many other honors. Mike is also the author of The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise (2006), which was made into a PBS documentary, and The New New Deal: The Hidden History of Change in the Obama Era, which made The New York Times best-seller list.
Mike is married to Cristina Dominguez, a former lawyer turned mind-body-spirit healer. They live in Miami with their son, Max, their daughter, Lina, and their clinically insane dogs, Cookie, Wags, and Wim.
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