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Planet Earth is feeling the heat. Temperatures are rising and current projections say that 9.6 billion of us will inhabit the planet by 2050. And with climate change already taking a toll on crops, fresh water supplies, and other critical resources, many wonder how we will manage to feed an increasingly hot and hungry planet. Journalist Lisa Palmer has traveled the world documenting the innovations of people and organizations on the front lines of fighting the food gap. She shares those stories in her new book, β€œHot, Hungry Planet: The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change.” That’s the focus of this edition of ΐΦΣγ ΜεΣύ NOW.

Guest

Lisa Palmer is a Senior Fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center and is a former ΐΦΣγ ΜεΣύ Public Policy Scholar with the Environmental Change and Security Program. As an independent journalist Palmer has reported almost exclusively on climate change, the environment, and business sustainability since 2008. Her work has appeared in publications such as Slate Magazine, Nature Climate Change, The Guardian, Yale E360, The Yale Forum, Scientific American, and The New York Times, among many others. She is a professional member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, the National Association of Science Writers, and the D.C. Science Writers Association, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. She has received grants and fellowships to support her work from the National Science Foundation-funded National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), Vermont Law School's Environmental Law Center, the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, and the Solutions Journalism Network, among many others. She received her B.S. from Boston University and her M.S. from Simmons College in Boston. Her new book is titled, β€œHot, Hungry Planet: The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change.”

Learn more about the book: /publication/hot-hungry-planet-the-fight-to-stop-global-food-crisis-the-face-climate-change

Host
John Milewski is the executive producer and managing editor of ΐΦΣγ ΜεΣύ NOW and also serves as director of ΐΦΣγ ΜεΣύ ON DEMAND digital programming. Previously he served as host and producer of Dialogue at the ΐΦΣγ ΜεΣύ and Close Up on C-SPAN. He also teaches a course on politics and media for Penn State’s Washington Program.