Essay

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, from which this essay is excerpted, and Eating Animals, a New York Times bestseller, published in 2009.

Ellen Dorsey is the executive director of the Wallace Global Fund, founded by Henry A. Wallace and his son Robert B. Wallace in 1996.

Mary Reynolds is a renowned landscaper and garden designer from Wexford, Ireland. She is an author, a graduate of University College Dublin in landscape horticulture, and a garden philosopher.