Can we eat our way out of the Climate Crisis? Colorado State University researcher Mark J. Easter explores that question in a new popular science book titled The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos, published by Patagonia. An Ecologist and Greenhouse Gas Accountant at CSU’s Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory for nearly three decades and now a Research Affiliate after retiring, Easter spent much of his CSU career studying the climate effects of agriculture and forestry. He has worked in a team that developed novel greenhouse gas inventory methods, as well as groundbreaking decision-support systems for farmers, ranchers, and others to use in assessing the climate consequences of raising food and managing the lands that sustain human society. 

“The Blue Plate distills that work into hopeful stories about heroines and heroes of regenerative agriculture, who are changing the story of food by reducing and reversing climate emissions,” Easter said in a statement.

A Fort Collins community book launch is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Friday, September 27, at Foothills Unitarian Church. Refreshments sourced from regeneratively-farmed ingredients will be served. 

The Blue Plate will be released in bookstores around the country on September 17th, and available from Patagonia.com and other online outlets.