Ocean Robbins | CEO at Food Revolution Network
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Ocean Robbins was born in a log cabin built by his parents, and grew up eating food they grew on the land together. At age 16, he co-founded an organization called YES! (Youth for Environmental Sanity) that he directed for the next 20 years. Ocean has spoken in person to more than 200,000 people in schools, conferences and events, and he has organized 100+ seminars and gatherings for leaders from 65+ nations. Ocean’s work has taken him all over the world, where he has seen first-hand the powerful impact of the food we eat – not just on our health, but on people and economies everywhere. He has served as an adjunct professor for Chapman University and has received numerous awards including the national Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service. He is author of the national bestseller, 31-Day Food Revolution: Heal Your Body, Feel Great, and Transform Your World. He serves as CEO of Food Revolution Network.
Accomplishments:
Ocean is author of Choices For Our Future: A Generation Rising For Life On Earth (1994) and of The Power of Partnership (2009), and co-author of Voices of the Food Revolution (2013). He and speaks widely, spreading a message of hope and inspiration to conferences, companies and organizations.
His speaking engagements have included (among many others) plenary presentations for The Truth About Cancer LIVE, Remedy Atlanta, Bioneers, Social Venture Network, Ecological Farming Conference, Peacemaking: The Power of Nonviolence (with HH The Dalai Llama and other Nobel laureates), Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Green Festival, Windstar Foundation, Aveda Congress, Cell Tech Distributor’s Celebration (four years in a row), and more than 400 school assemblies and college programs. His commencement addresses have included for Chapman University and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology / Sofia University.
Ocean has been interviewed on more than 70 local and national radio and TV programs and in another 50 newspapers and magazines including feature stories in Time, The Washington Post, Audubon, and The New York Times Magazine.
He has served on the Board of Directors for Friends Of the Earth, Creating Our Future, EarthSave International, and is a founding member of The Turning Tide Coalition, co-founder of the Leveraging Privilege for Social Change program, founding co-convenor of Leverage Alliance, and served on the steering committee for the Global Philanthropy Forum. He is a graduate of Joanna Macy’s “Work That Reconnects” facilitation intensive, has facilitated with Be Present, and is a certified facilitator of Essential Peacemaking. He serves on the adjunct faculty for Chapman University.
“Everybody has unique contributions to make to this planet. There are more than 7 billion parts to play in the transformation of our world, each a unique path, coming out of our histories, our struggles and devastations, and our dreams for the future. Whatever love, nurturance, opportunities and privileges have been given to us, they’re ours now. In this precious, wild and crazy thing we call our lives, what choices will we make? What will be our impact upon this planet and upon those with whom we share it?" - Ocean Robbins
Learn more at:
https://foodrevolution.org/
https://www.oceanrobbins.com/
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