Check out this recent video by Diet for a Hot Planet‘s Anna Lappé on why water pollution remains one of the world’s biggest public health and environmental threats. Lappé –who is also a contributing author State of The World 2011, provides a concise rebuttal of Dow Chemical‘s “Future We Create” online forum. The forum features 60 minute- long videos by water experts including videos posted by CEO of Clearwater Initiative, David Abraham and Water Director of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Joppe Cramwinckel.
Danielle Nierenberg, an expert on livestock and sustainability, currently serves as Project Director of State of World 2011 for the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, DC-based environmental think tank. Her knowledge of factory farming and its global spread and sustainable agriculture has been cited widely in the New York Times Magazine, the International Herald Tribune, the Washington Post, and
other publications.
Danielle worked for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic. She is currently traveling across Africa looking at innovations that are working to alleviate hunger and poverty and blogging everyday at Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. She has a regular column with the Mail & Guardian, the Kansas City Star, and the Huffington Post and her writing was been featured in newspapers across Africa including the Cape Town Argus, the Zambia Daily Mail, Coast Week (Kenya), and other African publications. She holds an M.S. in agriculture, food, and environment from Tufts University and a B.A. in environmental policy from Monmouth College.
