Richard A. Oppenlander
Sustainability consultant and author
Richard A. Oppenlander is a sustainability consultant, researcher and author who writes about how our food choices affect the planet and the people on it.
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About Richard A. Oppenlander
Dr. Oppenlander has studied the effects of food choices on the planet and on people for decades. He also works as a consultant and keynote speaker, focusing on personal accountability for what we eat and on world hunger projects. He wrote Comfortably Unaware, and later Food Choice and Sustainability, which earned a Green Book Festival Award and an international book award for social change, both in 2014. He founded the non-profit organization Inspire Awareness Now. He also started an organic plant-based production company and has run an animal rescue sanctuary with his wife, Jill.