Latest Episodes
142
Food Apartheid and Food Hubs--A Visit with Saba Grocers and co-founder Lina Ghanem
Food insecurity and food apartheid are a common challenge in many low-income and minority neighborhoods across the United States. Big supermarket companies avoid those...
147
The Living Green Myth: The Promise and Limits of Lifestyle Environmentalism with Dr. Michael Maniates
Many listeners are probably familiar with the tags found in hotel bathrooms that read: “Save Our Planet,” followed by instructions about reusing and replacing...
146
Are Tariffs Good for the Environment? Bad? Or What? With Ronnie Lipschutz and Christine Barrington
Tariffs are in the air and on the news. Tariffs are up and down. Tariffs are in and out. Who knows where they might...
145
Titans of Industrial Agriculture With Professor Jennifer Clapp, University of Waterloo
Big agriculture is Big! And it appears to be getting Bigger, as the leading companies in four critical sectors—equipment, seeds, fertilizers and chemicals—consolidate in...
144
Let the Salmon Swim Freely--The Klamath Dam Removal project with Brook Thompson
Until very recently, salmon and other fish attempting to spawn in Northern California’s Klamath River found a number of dams in their way. Over...
143
Fire, Fire at Moss Landing--Why the batteries burned and what that means
On January 16th, 2025, a fire broke out at the Vistra plant in Moss Landing, California burning for two days and scattering heavy metals...