You Gonna Finish That? Saving Good Food from Going Bad

May 31, 2024

Globally, one-third of food produced every year is wasted. That’s enough to feed about 2 billion people — twice the number of people who are...

Cory Booker: Taking on Big Ag & Going Big on Climate

June 23, 2023

Our food and agricultural systems are helping fuel the climate emergency. But climate isn’t the only harm; these systems  also impact local...

Climate Smart Agriculture with Secretary Tom Vilsack

February 17, 2023

From tilling soil to fertilizer use to belching and farting cows, agriculture is a major climate polluter, responsible for around 11 percent of...

Digging Deep into the Next Farm Bill

June 10, 2022

Roughly every five years, the U.S. designs and implements a new farm bill, which sets federal policy on agriculture across a huge swath of...

Vandana Shiva and the Hubris of Manipulating Nature

July 30, 2021

What are the limits on how much humans should meddle with the natural world?  Vandana Shiva is an eco-feminist, activist, editor, and author who...

Extreme Heat: The Silent Killer

June 25, 2021

Last week’s heat wave across the western United States busted more records – a trend that doesn’t seem to be going away.  Despite the...

Cropped Out: Land, Race and Climate

November 13, 2020

African-American farmers have been no strangers to land dispossession in the face of capitalism, based on extracting minerals and other resources...

REWIND: Fate of Food / Plate to Planet

May 29, 2020

How will we feed a planet that’s hotter, drier, and more crowded than ever? Much of it starts with innovators who are trying to re-invent the...

Libation Migration: Beer, Wine and Climate Change

November 1, 2019

Americans 21 and older drank 26 gallons of beer and cider per person in 2018. But extreme weather due to climate change has started to disrupt the...

The Fate of Food

July 19, 2019

How will we feed a planet that’s hotter, drier, and more crowded than ever? Much of it starts with innovators who are trying to re-invent the...