Author of Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It, Glennon, the Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, addresses America’s onrushing water shortage, and provides a provocative solution in the form of a market-based system that values water as both a commodity and a fundamental human right.
Sustainability
Tom Philpott
Co-founder of Maverick Farms, a center for sustainable-food education, and Food Editor at Grist.org, the country’s top environmental news site, Philpott’s biweekly “Victual Reality” column is the only regular food-politics column in the national media. Food & Wine named him one of “ten innovators” who will “continue to shape [America’s] culinary consciousness.”
Elizabeth Royte
Author of the acclaimed Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, Royte addresses the staggering impact of waste and consumption on the environment and the economy. In Bottlemania, she looks beyond the ecological ramifications of the bottled water phenomenon, to the tenuous state of our public water supplies.
