John Robbins is the author of The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World.

He is also the author of the international bestseller Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth; The Awakened Heart: Meditations on Finding Harmony in a Changing World and the highly acclaimed Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of True Healing.

Widely considered to be one of the world’s leading experts on the dietary link to the environment and health, John’s work has been the subject of cover stories and feature articles in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Life, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and many of North America’s—and Europe’s—other major newspapers and magazines. His life and work have also been featured in an hour-long US national television special entitled Diet for a New America.

The only son of the founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire, John Robbins was groomed to follow in his father’s footsteps but chose instead to walk away from Baskin-Robbins and the immense wealth it represented in order to ‘pursue the deeper American Dream … the dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms. A dream of a society that is truly healthy, practicing a wise and compassionate stewardship of a balanced ecosystem’.

Considered to be one of the most eloquent and powerful spokespersons in the world for a sane, ethical and sustainable future, John has been a featured and keynote speaker at major conferences sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility, Oxfam, the Sierra Club, The Humane Society of the United States, the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNICEF and many other organisations dedicated to creating a healthy, just and sustainable way of life. He is the recipient of the Rachel Carson Award, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award and the Peace Abbey’s Courage of Conscience Award. The widespread media attention he has received has included numerous appearances on American television shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and Donahue. When John spoke at the United Nations, he received a standing ovation.

Robbins serves on the boards of many nonprofit groups working toward a vital and sustainable way of life. He is the founder and board chair emeritus of EarthSave International, an organisation dedicated to healthy food choices, preservation of the environment and a more compassionate world. John is also the active board chair of Youth for Environmental Sanity (YES!), which educates, inspires and empowers youth to take positive action for all life on Earth.

John lives with his wife, Deo, their son, Ocean, Ocean’s wife, Michelle, and their grandsons, River and Bodhi, in the hills outside Santa Cruz, California.