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Ocean Robbins (born November 12, 1973) is an American entrepreneur, professor and author. He is best known for co-founding Food Revolution Network, Inc. a California-based company that advocates for a whole foods,
plant-based diet A plant-based diet is a diet consisting mostly or entirely of plant-based foods. Plant-based diets encompass a wide range of dietary patterns that contain low amounts of animal products and high amounts of plant products such as vegetables, fru ...
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Biography

Robbins was born to John Robbins (author), John Robbins, author of ''Diet for a New America''. He is the grandson of Baskin-Robbins cofounder Irvine Robbins. Robbins spent much of his early life advocating for environmental change. At the age of 15, he co-founded the Creating our Future speaking tour aimed at empowering students for environmental change and also presented at the United Nations. In 1990, Robbins founded the non-profit Youth for Environmental Sanity (YES!) to continue his mission of advocating for sustainability and social justice. He directed the organization until 2010. In 2012, Robbins co-founded Food Revolution Network in conjunction with his father. Robbins has also served as adjunct professor in the Peace Studies department at Chapman University. His book ''31-Day Food Revolution'' debuted as a best seller on ''WSJ'' and ''USA Today''.


Personal life

Ocean and his wife Michele are raising twin special needs boys.


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Food Revolution Network
1973 births Living people American people of Jewish descent Plant-based diet advocates {{US-author-stub