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Jill Nussinow, M.S., R.D., a.k.a. “The Veggie Queen,” culinary educator and author.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that fiber-rich, plant-based diets are key to wellness? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for ...

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  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Matt Simon, author of A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that microplastics have infested every corner of Earth, from the highest mountains to the deepest seas? Join Food Sleuth Radio host an...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
221223: This Year in Climate, 12/23/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine sent shockwaves through global energy markets, destabilized international food security, and continues to kee...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
Nurdle Hurdles + Turning Plastic Into Gravel
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Neel Dhanesha
What is a nurdle, you ask? Is it the latest variation on the popular New York Times puzzle, Wordle? No, not quite. Nurdles are the tiny little petr...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Martin Bourque, Executive Director, the Ecology Center, Berkeley, CA https://ecologycenter.org/ discusses the myths of plastic recycling
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that most plastic packaging is not recyclable? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her inter...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jill Lindsey Harrison, Ph.D., author of Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that pesticide drift is a widespread, largely invisible problem that disproportionately harms racially marginalized, Indigenous, and w...

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  • Added: Nov 24, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mark Winne, community food activist, writer, and Senior Advisor to the Food Policy Networks Project at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that all the feeding assistance programs in the world won’t solve the root cause of hunger, which is poverty? Join Food Sleuth Radio h...

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Adam Alexander, author of The Seed Detective: Uncovering the secret histories of remarkable vegetables
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that home gardeners have a critical role in helping to conserve the biodiversity of crops, which is crucial in combatting climate chan...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Andrianna Natsoulas, Campaign Director, Don’t Cage Our Oceans
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that large-scale off-shore marine finfish aquaculture operations pose a risk to our ocean commons? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Reg...

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bugging Out: Anne Carlson of Jiminy’s + Chef Bun Lai
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Anne Carlson
Do you have environmental food guilt? There’s no actual definition for that (because we just made it up), but many of us definitely know how it fee...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Aaron Johnson, Program Manager for Challenging Corporate Power at Rural Advancement Foundational International – USA (RAFI-USA.)
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that most poultry sold in supermarkets is produced by an unjust “tournament system” that pits farmer against farmer? Join Food Sleuth ...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Taylor Brorby, essayist, poet, environmentalist, and author of Boys and Oil: Growing up Gay in a Fractured Land
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that fracking, and other methods of fossil fuel extraction and production puts farm land, water quality and public health at risk? Joi...

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  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bill McKibben & Akaya Windwood: Boomers, Big Banks & Solving the Climate Crisis (Release Date: 10/12/2022)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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(Release Date: 10/12/2022) Hey Boomers: When it comes to the climate crisis, are you the problem, the solution or both? In this episode Laura sits...

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Manny Teodoro, Ph.D., lead author of The Profits of Distrust: Citizen-Consumers, Drinking Water, and the Crisis of Confidence in American Government.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that bottled water purchases can predict political involvement? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelga...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ramon Velazquez Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that the herbicide glyphosate can cross the blood-brain barrier, resulting in an increase of neuro-inflammation? Join Food Sleuth Radi...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bart Elmore, Ph.D., environmental historian at the Ohio State University and author of Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that Monsanto knew PCBs were harmful to public health, but continued to profit from their sale? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Regist...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Jenn Wheeling, holistic rancher, regenerative farmer
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that pasture-based animal agriculture differs vastly from industrial feedlots? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, M...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Barry Boyd Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that insulin resistance increases risk for chronic diseases? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn,...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Waymap CEO Tom Pey
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Tom Pey
Have you ever watched in amazement as a visually impaired person nimbly maneuvers their way through a crowded subway station? Well, some thoughtful...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Sarah King, M.S., Head of Greenpeace Canada's Oceans and Plastics campaign.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that the United Nations has declared plastic pollution a global crisis? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietitian, Melinda...

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bianca Fortis on Florida's Efforts to Disenfranchise Former Prisoners
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bianca Fortis
Florida sort of defines the term "swing state." The smallest of variables can push the outcome of Florida's elections in one direction or another -...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
“To Serve & Protect” Whom? Alec Karakatsanis on Copaganda
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alec Karakatsanis
What comes to mind when you hear the words “crime” and “safety?” For many, these words evoke images of poor people stealing things, or police enfor...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Brad Lancaster, rainwater harvester, permaculturist, regenerative design consultant and author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that harvested rainwater can be used in arid regions of the world to support food-bearing shade trees, abundant gardens, and a thrivin...

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kari Hamerschlag (Part 2/2) Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that our food and agricultural practices can have either a beneficial or detrimental impact on the global climate crisis? Join Food Sl...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Daniel Nichanian on the Nuts and Bolts of Local Elections
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Nichanian
Anyone who paid attention to the ugly aftermath of the 2020 presidential election suddenly realized that a coterie of state-level bureaucrats had a...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00