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Food has become cheaper and more abundant in the last 150 years, largely thanks to technological advances. Irrigation, fertilizer, pesticides, and ...
Bought by KSJD
- Added: Jun 29, 2014
- Length: 22:01
- Purchases: 1
Shellfish farmers, researchers, and chefs share their concerns about water contamination in the Sound and the danger is poses to shellfish.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 29, 2014
- Length: 07:52
- Purchases: 1
Are we being told the truth about GMO foods in our midst? Sheldon Krimsky is Editor/reader here and Ralph Nader wrote the foreword to this informat...
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 01:40
Olive oil may help protect the cardiovascular system against the ill-effects of air pollution in cities.
- Added: May 21, 2014
- Length: 01:00
It may seem hard to imagine, but we have more microbial cells in our guts than we have human cells in our bodies. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and R...
- Added: May 01, 2014
- Length: 28:01
April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month. Did you know that farmers who use pesticides are at greater risk for developing Parkinson's Disease (PD)? Or ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 28:00
“Natural” gas may sound like a clean alternative to foreign oil, but natural gas extraction utilizing hydraulic fracturing (fracking) increases the...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Is organic food worth a higher price at the check out? Chuck Benbrook, Ph.D., Washington State University, helps us do the food math. Join Food Sl...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 28:00
The Union of Concerned Scientists reports that herbicide-resistant weeds have reached epidemic proportions, infesting 61 million acres and growing....
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 28:00
With the industrialization of agriculture, our diets have become out of balance with an abundance of omega-6 fatty acids and a deficiency in omega-...
- Added: Dec 20, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Why are so few people talking about the risky operation starting at the ruined Fukushima nuclear plant?
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Nov 17, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
What are the environmental and public health effects of GMO crops, related herbicides and pesticides? How can we protect our loved ones and our foo...
- Added: Oct 25, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Only a farmer can describe the boots-on-the-ground realities of raising our nation's food supply. Howard Vlieger is a farmer and crop nutrition ad...
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 28:00
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will ask, "Who is the top predator here?" and, "If certain endangered species do in fact con...
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 04:57
In this interview on food security and the environment, Dave Lobell explains the global food system, the monkey-wrench of climate change, and the p...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 33:25
Biologist Peter Vitousek discusses the serious impacts humankind has had on the nitrogen cycle and how that relates to our food system. He expands ...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 26:12
Each year, 10 billion pounds of BPA (Bisphenol A) are produced and put into consumer products, ranging from food and soda cans to cash register rec...
- Added: Feb 11, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Michael Hansen, senior scientist at Consumers Union, will discuss Consumer Union’s latest report on antibiotic resistant bacteria found in supermar...
- Added: Jan 20, 2013
- Length: 28:00
From rising oceans to widespread droughts, we can expect global climate changes to impact how and where we grow our food. Join Food Sleuth Radio h...
- Added: Dec 31, 2012
- Length: 28:00
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the relationship of fisherman and customer; market pressure and the necessity f...
- Added: May 02, 2012
- Length: 05:51
Nearly 90 percent of the corn grown in America is now genetically-modified. That corn ends up in many foods...and increasingly in spirits, like bou...
Bought by NPR Illinois, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 3
An extended interview with Slow Food International Secretary General Paolo di Croce about how his organization plans to feed the growing world popu...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 07, 2011
- Length: 06:23
- Purchases: 1
Filmmaker Taggart Siegel talks disappearing bees, letting nature take its course, and the meaning of honey time.
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Mar 27, 2011
- Length: 17:06
- Purchases: 1
BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Matt Fidler and Dr. Despommier of Columbia University in New York talk about his new concept of Vertical Farming. That is, growing our food in a s...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Nov 26, 2008
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
