Mike Tidwell "The Low-Carbon Diet"

Mike Tidwell "The Low-Carbon Diet"

Author: Various Authors February 2, 2011 Duration: 24:24
Mike Tidwell, director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, is the author of The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities (Free Press). In this article "The Low-Carbon Diet" for Audubon.org he discusses the Ecological and Moral Reasons for the plant based diet.

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