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\nHow has this little-known commodity come to dominate our lives so completely? To find t he answers to these questions\, Jocelyn Zuckerman traveled across four con tinents and back in time two centuries. The obscure oil palm fruit\, she d iscovered\, \;has played an outsized role in history\, from spurring t he colonization of Nigeria and greasing the gears of the Second Industrial Revolution\, to transforming the economies of Malaysia and Indonesia. But the palm oil \;revolution has been built on stolen land and slave lab or\; it&rsquo\;s swept away lives and cultures \;and so ravaged the la ndscapes of Southeast Asia that such iconic animals as the orangutan now t eeter on the brink of extinction. \;Fires lit to clear the way for pla ntations. spew carbon emissions to rival those of entire industrialized na tions. Combining history\, travelogue\, and investigative reporting\, "Pla net Palm" offers an unsettling\, urgent look at the global palm oil indust ry and at our own unwitting role in fueling what has today become an envir onmental and public-health catastrophe. \;
\nAuthor and Presente r: Jocelyn Zuckerman \;
\nFor most of her career\, Jocelyn has&n bsp\; worked as an editor\, beginning at a little lifestyle magazine calle d "InFashion" and spending a few years at travel trades before landing at "Gourmet" in 1996. \;
\nIn the years since "Gourmet" folded\, Jo celyn has mostly freelanced\, aside from shortish gigs as articles editor of "OnEarth\," the now-defunct magazine of the Natural Resources Defense C ouncil\, or NRDC\, and executive editor of "Whole Living\," the now-also-d efunct sustainability-focused magazine put out by Martha Stewart. She has also been an adjunct professor at Columbia University&rsquo\;s Graduate Sc hool of Journalism and a contributing editor at both "Modern Farmer" and " Condé\; Nast Traveler." Her articles\, which range from straight tra vel pieces to features on issues related to the environment\, agriculture\ , nutrition\, and the developing world\, have appeared in "Audubon\," "The American Prospect\," "Fast Company\," "The New York Times Magazine\," and lots of other places. She has been the recipient of a James Beard Award f or feature writing and of fellowships from the Alicia Patterson Foundation \, the Carter Center\, The Peter Jennings Project\, and the New York Times Company Foundation.
\nAlong the way\, she has studied French litera ture at the Sorbonne and English literature at Hamilton College\, and she received a Master&rsquo\;s from Columbia&rsquo\;s Journalism School. She h as also spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer\, teaching English and math in a little village in western Kenya. These days she is based in Fort Greene\, Brooklyn\, where she lives with her husband\, two daughters\, an d dogs.
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