Best Evironmental Podcasts (2025)

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Rita Valley Local Gardener and Greg Lowenthal President of the Long Island Native Plant Initiative 55:03

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Rita Valley is an artist and gardener living in Southbury Connecticut. Her passion for gardening started at an early age, nurtured by her Polish grandmother who tended an impressive vegetable garden. Valley’s love of gardening has persisted and blossomed into a penchant for writing about her gardening exploits as well. Rita seems to have the same a…

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Peter Linderoth - Save the Sound & Sandra Wilson CT. Master Gardener Program 47:50

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First up Peter Linderoth, the director of healthy waters and lands for Save the Sound comes to “Digging in the Dirt” with the publication of Save The Sounds 2025 LONG ISLAND SOUND BEACH REPORT. How does your local beach in CT. or Long Island rate? Then Sandy Wilson joins me. Sandi is employed with the University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension…

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Peter Linderoth - Save the Sound 27:02

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Peter Linderoth, the director of healthy waters and lands for Save the Sound Comes to “Digging in the Dirt” with the publication of Save The Sounds 2025 LONG ISLAND SOUND BEACH REPORT. How does your local beach in CT. or Long Island rate?By Kevin Gallagher

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Sandra Wilson CT. Master Gardener Program 21:11

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My guest is Sandy Wilson. Sandi is employed with the University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension System. She is the Fairfield County Master Gardener Program Coordinator based out of the Extension office in Bethel. She has been involved with the Master Gardener program for 25 years.By Kevin Gallagher

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Vincent Dion -Newtown CT. Gardener & Craig Floyd Regenerative Farmer 54:57

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Vincent Dion is a life-long Artist, Gardener, Connecticut resident and Do-it Yourself enthusiast. He maintains a 1,500 square foot backyard garden in Newtown, CT. I have it on good authority that Vincent is quite the gardener and we're here to talk about does his garden grow. My other guest is Craig Floyd. Craig is a tenth generation Farmer who has…

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Professor Naomi Oreskes - Remembering Pope Francis & Barry Kresch President of the EV Club of CT. 55:52

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We pay our respects to the passing of Pope Francis, who followed in the footsteps of his name sake St. Francis of Assisi, honoring the planet earth and all its creatures. In 2015 he wrote it in encyclical about this and the introduction was by none other than my guest Professor Naomi Oreskes. Professor Naomi Oreskes is a Professor of the History of…

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Professor Naomi Oreskes - Remembering Pope Francis 17:47

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Professor Naomi Oreskes is a Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Naomi who along with her colleague Erik Conway are bestselling authors of the book Merchants of Doubt…about the machinations of the fossil fuel industry and the book “The Big Myth about the myth" of the fr…

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Barry Kresch President of the EV Club ( Electric vehicle Cub) of CT. 28:33

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Barry Kresch has long been involved in environmental activism. He has been a club member and EV owner since 2012. His participation in the club includes doing analytics, including the Interactive EV Dashboard tracking EV adoption in CT.By Kevin Gallagher

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Chuck Collins - Climate Accountability Research Project plus Julie Tighe - New York League of Conservation voters 55:12

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Chuck Collins , co-founder of the Climate Accountability Research Project. He’s a researcher and campaigner based at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he coedits Inequality.org. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Burned By Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power are Ruining Our Lives and the Planet. He is also a major force beh…

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Professor Michael E. Mann & Bruce Redman Becker 53:18

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Professor Mann is a scientist and author. He is a Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth & Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania. And Director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media. He is Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action. He has contributed our understanding of the science behind o…

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Bruce Redman Becker - The Marcel Hotel 31:05

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Bruce Becker is President of Becker + Becker, an integrated sustainable architecture and development firm in Westport, Connecticut. Bruce designs buildings that have a transformative social and environmental value. Bruce has transformed the Armstrong Rubber Company Building in New Haven into the Marcel hotel, the country’s first fossil-fuel free ho…

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Priya Parrotta Safina Center Fellow, Bill Freese Science Policy Analyst Center for food safety, Gloria Frazee RewildLongIsland.org 55:03

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-Priya Parrotta is a Senior fellow at the Safina center in Long Island NY. Priya is a historian, author, songwriter, composer, singer, and multimedia artist dedicated to furthering environmental consciousness across borders. -Bill Freese is the Science Policy Analyst For the Center for food safety on the efforts by the pesticide industry to protect…

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Ann Molloy-Neptune's Harvest Organic Co., Jeff Masters of the Yale climate Connections, Victor DeMasi on Neonicotinoids, Freedom Gerrado - Small farmers & DOGE, 55:25

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Digging in the Dirt guests this show are Ann Molloy Sales Director at Neptune's Harvest Organic Fertilizer Company which fully utilizes 100% of the fish they catch, by turning the gurry (everything that’s left after you fillet a fish) into an organic fertilizer. Up next Jeff Masters of the Yale Climate Connections talks with me about the effects th…

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Ann Malloy of The Neptune's Harvest fertilizer company. 16:19

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After several years of traveling around the country and world, ( more on that later ) she settled back there and has been helping run her family business. For over 30 years. Ann has overseen the marketing and sales for the Neptune’s Harvest division of Ocean Crest Seafoods, which came about to fully utilize 100% of the fish they catch, by turning t…

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Save the Sound - Peter Linderoth, Louise Washer - Norwalk River Watershed Association and Gloria Frazee - RewildLongIsland.org 53:16

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I like to welcome for a second visit to digging in the dirt, Peter Linderoth, director of science and watersheds for Save the Sound's Healthy Waters Institute. Then Louise Washer joins us. Louise is President of the Norwalk River Watershed Association and serves on the Board of the Pollinator Pathway. Louise is here again to continue the conversati…

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Michael E. Mann Author "Our Fragile Moment" 40:30

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My guest today on DITD is Michael E. Mann. Arguably the foremost living paleoclimatologist and geophysicist. He is the director of the Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media at the University of Pennsylvania. Mann has contributed to the scientific understanding of historic climate change based on the temperature record of the past thousan…

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Kim Stanley Robinson - "The Ministry for the Future" 59:28

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My guest on this DITD this episode is Km Stanley Robinson. Stan Robinson is a New York Times Best selling Author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards. He is author of more than 20 books including his much loved Mar's Trilogy and he will be here today to talk about his latest book "The Ministry for the Future". In 2008, he was named a "He…

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Paul Hawken Regeneration - Ending the climate crisis in one generation 56:13

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On this “Digging in the Dirt” my guest is environmentalist, entrepreneur and author Paul Hawken. Paul is a leading voice in the worlds environmental movement. His visionary ideas emphasize changing the relationship between business and the Earth, as humanity seeks to rise to the challenge of our time, Globalwarming. In his new book "Regeneration - …

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Chuck Collins of ClimateCriminals.org 42:56

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Chuck Collins of climatecriminals.org is my guest on this "Digging in the Dirt". Chuck is here to talk about why he believes It’s time to name the names of the individuals delaying climate action and financing the climate crisis, so they can be held accountable. Chuck Collins is an American author and a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy St…

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Peter Byck Director, producer and writer of the Film "Roots so deep you can see the devil down there". Plus, Gloria Frazee of RewildLongIsland.org on their community gardens grant program. 55:32

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My guest on Digging in is Peter Byck director, producer and writer of a 4 part documentary series called Roots so deep, you can see the devil down there. He’s also currently producing an on-going series of short films called Carbon Cowboys. The film documents a $10 million research project comparing Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing with convent…

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David Wallace-Wells - "The Uninhabitable Earth" 53:10

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My guest on this “Digging in the Dirt” is the Climate Columnist for the New York Magazine and a best selling author of the book The Uninhabitable Earth. David gives us an assessment of what is happening on the planet Earth largely do to the industrial revolution and the massive carbon emissions it has unleashed. David then attempts to provide us wi…

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Isabella Rossellini - Mama Farm Long Island 33:37

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Im very pleased to welcome to Digging in the Dirt Isabella Rossellini. In addition to a very successful modeling career, Isabella has starred in some extraordinary films, Like “Blue Velvet”. I Invited her here today not to talk about films but to talk to me about her wonderful organic farm in Brookhaven Long Island, called Mama Farm …..where Ms. Ro…

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David Pogue - Author How to prepare for climate change 44:03

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My guest today is Author David Pogue. David talks to me about his new book "How to prepare for climate change." A practical guide to surviving the chaos. It is a practical and comprehensive guide to surviving what could be the greatest disaster of our time. David is a New York Times bestselling self-help author and CBS Sunday Morning science and te…

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Bill Weir - CNN Anchor Author of "Life as We Know It (Can Be)" 36:32

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My guest is Bill Weir. Bill is a CNN anchor and Chief Climate Correspondent and he is host and executive producer of the acclaimed CNN Original Series "The Wonder List with Bill Weir." Now Bill is the author of a wonderful new Book entitled "Life as We Know It (Can Be) Stories of People, Climate, and Hope in a Changing World."…

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin -Director of Multisolving Institute. 45:28

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Dr. Sawin is an expert on multisolving, actions that address equity, climate change health, well-being, and economic vitality as integrated issues. She developed the concept after studying bright spots around the world where people created systems change by building connections across silos. In 2021, Beth founded Multisolving Institute to share thi…

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Doug Tallamy - Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation 2021 40:05

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Doug Tallamy is a professor of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware and a NY Times best selling author. He Has written Three books..... the critically acclaimed Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants. The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden and his latest…

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Digging in the Dirt The Real Organic Project, The Pollinator Pathway and Rewild Long Island 55:13

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My guests this show are Lindley Dixon of the Real Organic Project. Linley serves as a Farmer representative and Co-Director of the Real Organic Project. Then Louise Washer a founder of the Pollinator Pathway joins me to tell us the latest news on the neonicotinoid pesticides problem Finally Gloria Frazee of Rewild Long Island makes her monthly visi…

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Jeff Masters (Hurricane Expert, Yale Climate Connection), Kaitlyn Kimball (Director of Agriculture for Cityseed, New Haven), James Blanchfield (Wilton, Connecticut Fire Chief and Emergency Management ... 54:51

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This week on Digging in the Dirt, it's all about heavy weather. The first of Kevin Gallaghers three guests will be Yale Climate Connection meteorologist, and hurricane expert, Jeff Masters who will review how hurricane Helene became so devastating. Next up is farmer Kaitlyn Kimball Director of agriculture for Cityseed in New Haven. She weighs in on…

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John Feldman - Filmmaker "Regenerating Life" Documentary 59:35

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My guest today joins me for a 2nd time here on “DITD”. He is filmmaker John Feldman. I first met John when I discovered his film Symbiotic Earth about the renowned , unknown to the public, scientist Lynn Margulis. A wonderful film. Now he is out with his latest film. “Regenerating Life”. A three part documentary that highlights the importance of bi…

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Denise Baden - Author "Habitat Man" The power of positive climate narratives. 33:02

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My guest is Denise Baden, a Professor of Sustainable Business within Southampton Business School at the University of Southampton in Britain. Denise set up the Green Stories Project which includes free writing competitions that encourage storytellers to embed climate solutions into stories aimed at mainstream readers across a variety of formats. Sh…

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Rana Foroohar - Author / Associate Editor at the Financial Times 29:15

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My guest on this show is Rana Foroohar an American author, associate editor at the Financial Times and CNN's global economic analyst. We will be discussing her newest book Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World and her short film of the same title. Ms. Foroohar contends that unregulated globalization has produced serious negative…

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Jeff Masters Meteorologist - Atmospheric rivers 32:53

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I welcome back to DITD Jeff Masters of the Yale Climate Connection. Jeff, worked as a hurricane scientist with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters from 1986-1990. He has a Ph.D. in air pollution meteorology from the University of Michigan. In 1995, he co-founded the Weather Underground weather channel. On Monday Jan 22nd , a relatively weak atmospheric rive…

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Jeff Masters Meteorologist Yale Climate Connection 2024 21:06

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I welcome back to DITD Jeff Masters of the Yale Climate Connection. Jeff Masters, worked as a hurricane scientist with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters from 1986-1990. He has a Ph.D. in air pollution meteorology from the University of Michigan. In 1995, he co-founded the Weather Underground weather channel. He also was creator of the Category 6 blog, one…

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Clare Maloney - Ft. Myers Florida 3 years after Hurricane Ian 33:53

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My guest today is someone special to me. It's my youngest sister Clare. In light of what's going on in Los Angeles with the horrific destruction by the wind driven fires and what a monumental task of rebuilding will be. I thought what she has to say about her recent experience in Ft. Myers Florida would be interesting to you. What she experienced d…

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Craig Floyd - The Craig Floyd Giving Garden at Coogan Farm 26:26

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My guest now is Craig Floyd. Craig has been here on DITD several times before. I always like talking with Craig, because of his incredible knowledge of regenerative and organic growing, his work ethic and empathy for those who have less than the rest of us. Craig is retiring from running the Giving Garden in Stonington CT., which grows tons of whol…

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Lori Cochran-Dougall Director of the Westport Farmers Market and Kaitlyn Kimbal Agriculture Director Cityseed, New Haven CT. 54:30

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Lori Cochran-Dougall Director of the Westport Farmers Market and Kaitlyn Kimbal Agriculture Director Cityseed, New Haven CT. join me to about farmers markets in the area, specifically the Westport Farmers market. Then Samantha Jo, Project Manager of Rewild Long Island, joins me to tell you about their upcoming Sustainable Garden Design online work …

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Carl Safina Author - Alfie & Me: What owls know, What humans believe. 40:55

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Returning for the third time to “Digging in the Dirt” is my guest Dr. Carl Safina the endowed chair for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University and a MacArthur “genius fellowship" award winning ecologist and founder of the Safina Center and now author of a wonderful new book called "Alfie and me" - What owls know, what humans believe.…

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Carl Safina - Author of "Owls in our yard" 25:00

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I'd like to welcome back Dr. Carl Safina from the Safina Center to Digging in the dirt. Carl has taken the story of his previous book "Alfie and Me" to another level and created a picture book for children called "Owls in our yard" ! Carl is a good friend of Digging in the Dirt and WPKN radio. Dr. Safina is the endowed chair for Nature and Humanity…

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Carl Safina Safina Center -A Lifelong Conversation with the Living World 8:14

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My next guest here on Digging in the Dirt is making his 2nd visit to talk to us about an upcoming event he is participating in on August 27th in Sag harbor. A Lifelong Conversation with the Living World in Words and Birds and Music where the urgency of life on Earth will be Expressed through various art forms. With a very intriguing group of guest …

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Ryland Engelhart Exec. Director Kiss the Ground 2021 40:26

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Ryland is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Kiss the Ground. Kiss the Ground has become a premier online educational hub for regenerative agriculture, Now, a new feature Documentary called Kiss the Earth has premiered on Netflix. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, the film parallels The Kiss the ground Organizations mission to awaken people to the…

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Lynn Stoddard - Executive Director Sustainable CT 2024 26:17

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My guest this afternoon on “Digging in the Dirt Is the Executive Director of Sustainable CT Lynn Stoddard. Sustainable CT is a free, dynamic voluntary certification program that inspires, supports, and accelerates actions to help Connecticut communities thrive. Lynn has more than 20 years of experience in developing and implementing sustainability …

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Paul Greenberg - Author Four Fish & The Climate Diet 36:29

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My guest on this Digging in the Dirt is Paul Greenberg. Paul writes at the intersection of the environment and technology, seeking to help his readers escape screens and find emotional and ecological balance with their planet. He is the author of the James Beard Award-winning bestseller Four Fish and the books American Catch and The Climate Diet: 5…

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Professor Naomi Oreskes on Climate change Disinformation 2020 44:59

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My guest today on Digging in the Dirt is Naomi Oreskes a Professor of the History of Science, at Harvard and the author of many books, most notably Merchants of doubt and Why trust science? Professor Oreskes is one of the leading critics of Exxon and the oil and gas industry in general as they conduct what she says is their decades old campaign to …

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Prof. Naomi Oreskes - Author "The Big Myth: 39:21

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My guest today on DITD is Professor Naomi Oreskes who along with her colleague Erik Conway are bestselling authors of the book Merchants of Doubt…about the machinations of the fossil fuel industry, and now they have a new tome called the “The Big Myth” which is a startling history of one of America's most tenacious--and destructive--false ideas: th…

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Leah Penniman Author - Black Earth Wisdom 2024 26:07

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Leah Penniman, author of Farming While Black and co-founder of Soul Fire Farm. She is a Black Kreyol farmer, author, mother, and food justice activist who has been tending the soil and organizing for an anti-racist food system for 25 years. Leah returns to DITD to talk to me about her new book that is called Black Earth Wisdom - soulful conversatio…

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Edwina Von Gal - 2 Thirds For The Birds - from the Perfect Earth Project 2024 27:39

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My guest on this segment of DITD today is Edwina Von Gal. In 2013 she founded the Perfect Earth Project. Promoting toxic-free lawns and landscapes for the health of people, their pets, and the planet. Edwina is here today to talk to me about her latest project. “ 2/3s for the birds.” Its an initiative launched by this environmental activist her non…

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What Your Food Ate - Authors Anne Bickle and David Montgomery 2023 24:59

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My guests on this segment are Anne Biklé and David R. Montgomery Authors of a new book entitled "What Your Food ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health. Far too many of us remain poorly nourished despite eating more than enough food. It's your premise that the soil health is so poor that the food is not nutritious. Something that modern nu…

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Mike Nadeau Sustainable, organic, ethical land care 2024 34:03

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I'm here with the winner of the 5th annual Bill Duesing Organic Living on the Earth Award, Michael Nadeau. Michael is one of the leading authorities in the field of sustainable organic and ethical land care strategies in the United States. He is sought after for creating attractive sustainable and restorative environments using organic practices th…

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Half-Earth Socialism - Authors Troy Vettese & Drew Pendergrass 36:00

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My guests on this episode of Digging in the Dirt are The authors Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass who have written a new book entitled Half - Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics. We discuss what the issues are that face the planet and humanity and how we are going to deal with the very real cris…