Center for a Livable Future
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future—working toward a healthy, equitable, resilient food system from within the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering.
Stories and Viewpoints
Urban Food Waste Interventions: Where To Go Next
How much do we really know about the effectiveness of food waste interventions?
For Climate Crisis and Malnutrition, Look at Diet Choice in Context
We must not prescribe a “one-size-fits-all,” Western-centric solution to the challenges of diet and climate.
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True Cost Accounting: Can We Put a Price Tag on Extraction and Exploitation?
Frameworks for quantifying the impact of the current food system models.
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Trending at COP25: Promising Movement on Food Systems
The UN climate conference is finally acknowledging the connection between food systems, climate change, and health.
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CLF-Lerner Fellowships
Established in 2003, the goal of the Center for a Livable Future-Lerner Fellowship Program is to support doctoral students at the Johns Hopkins University.
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FoodSpan
A downloadable curriculum that provides high school teachers with lesson plans relating to food system issues.
Free Online Courses
“An Introduction to the US Food System: Perspectives from Public Health,” offered through the University’s partnership with Coursera.