If you’ve had some success in your garden this year, you might be ready to take things to the next level by propagating plants for your garden next year. Saving seeds is one of the easiest propagation methods for common garden plants. It can save money, improve the quality of your garden, and it supports crop diversity and food sovereignty. […]
While browsing YouTube for dinner ideas, perhaps you nabbed an easy lentil recipe from a vegan bodybuilder. Or you glanced at an article about Venus Williams and other renowned vegan athletes. While attending a Veg Fest event, perhaps you were drawn to a toned and sculpted speaker who happened to be a plant-eating bodybuilder. Plenty of professional athletes, bodybuilders, and […]
How can we eliminate food waste created by restaurants, institutional cafeterias, and retail grocers? According to the National Conference of State Legislators, food waste is a plague in our supply chains. Farms contribute 16% of total food waste and businesses another 39%, while households are responsible for 43% of food waste. Chris O’Brien joined the podcast to discuss processing food […]
How can we make one of the most recycled materials more sustainable? Meet Jennifer Bogs, director of global sustainability at Crown Holdings, Inc., one of the largest aluminum can manufacturers worldwide at $12.9 billion in annual sales. The aluminum industry famously claims that 75% of all aluminum ever produced is still in use today; it’s a highly recyclable material. Reusing […]
Looking for some healthy options to grow in your garden? Whether you’re a novice gardener or you have more experience, we have suggestions for tasty summer superfoods you can grow at home, including crops you can grow in containers if you don’t have a garden. What are superfoods, you ask? The term is used to refer to foods with health-promoting […]
Rice farmers have a story to tell about sustainability and innovation. Founded in 1937 in the northern Sacramento Valley of California, Lundberg Family Farms has been committed to leaving the land better than they found it and learning from previous generations. The company, now led by the third and fourth generation of Lundbergs, recently introduced its Regenerative Organic Certified white […]
Finding regeneratively grown products is getting easier. Our guest today is Wyatt Ball, business development manager for the Land to Market product labeling program. The program focuses on connecting brands, producers, and participants in the food supply chain through their shared concern for land health. The practice of regenerative agriculture first took root in the 1960s and ’70s after publisher […]
Meet journalist Esha Chhabra, who spent a decade exploring the world for examples of social ventures — businesses that blend profitability with creating equitable human outcomes — for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and other publications. In her new book, Working To Restore: Harnessing the Power of Regenerative Business to Heal the World, she describes her […]
Travel Channel hosts Ashlan and Philippe Cousteau join a special World Oceans Day conversation with Mitch Ratcliffe and Newday Impact Investing CEO Doug Heske about the rapidly declining krill population in the Southern Antarctic Ocean. These tiny crustaceans that are the keystone of a critical carbon cycle are threatened with extinction from overharvesting to make heart- and brain-healthy omega-3 oils […]
When we think about our environmental foodprint, we’re usually only thinking about meals. But the size of our beverage footprint can be surprising. From coffee and tea to orange juice, and even bottled water, beverages have global life cycles with complex impacts. While we might agonize over the packaging options for our soda, we tend to overlook alcohol. Hopefully, you […]