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Daphne Miller, Family doctor, author, professor and some-time farm hand on the ways that sustainable farming can help us think about healing and staying healthy and about changing the way that doctors understand and treat illness.
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Harold McGee, author and food-science pioneer talks about where science fits into modern cooking and eating.
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Jackson Landers, a hunter, author, adventurer, and founder of the invasivore movement, on shooting pythons, cooking geese and what it means to be a locavore hunter.
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Gus Speth visits with Joanna Dafoe, Yale F&ES ’14, about his latest book America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy. Speth describes the need for a new economy to generate lasting and expansive political reform and reflects on his personal theory of change as it has evolved throughout his career. Time Magazine has called Gus Speth the “ultimate insider,” but to many students at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Vermont Law School, Professor Speth is a mentor and friend. To that end, the podcast concludes with a discussion related to a student-posed question: what is the best role for young people to help in the new economy transition?
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Executive Director of FoodFirst on the sources and results of corporate capitalism’s control of the food system, and on the different forms of resistance that are forming all over the world.
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Many scientists note that the poles offer a preview of climate change’s expected global impacts. In the first of a two-part podcast, Fran Ulmer, chair of the US Arctic Research Commission and former lieutenant governor of Alaska, discusses her work in the Arctic and how the people who live and work there are facing the challenges posed by a changing climate.
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Offshore drilling in the Arctic is a contentious topic, especially in light of the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In the second of a two-part podcast, Fran Ulmer, chair of the US Arctic Research Commission and former lieutenant governor of Alaska, discusses her experience as a member of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, appointed by President Obama, and offers some perspective on the debate surrounding natural resource extraction, of all types, in Alaska.
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Mark Bomford, Director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project, sits down with journalist Frederick Kaufman, author of “Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food”, for an exploration on the effects that globalization, commoditization, and corporate greed have on our food system and the way that food is produced.
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Mark Bomford, Director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project, sits down with journalist Frederick Kaufman, author of “Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food”, for an exploration on the effects that globalization, commoditization, and corporate greed have on our food system and the way that food is produced.
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Mark Bomford, Director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project, sits down with journalist Frederick Kaufman, author of “Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food”, for an exploration on the effects that globalization, commoditization, and corporate greed have on our food system and the way that food is produced.